DTE CEO Earley teams with
White House to talk stimulus
November 2, 2009
Detroit needs jobs and smart grid will deliver them to “Motown,” DTE Energy CEO Anthony Earley Jr told the press last week. Detroit Edison is owned by DTE and serves 2.2 million in Southeastern Michigan. Edward Montgomery, executive director of the White House Council on Auto Communities and Workers, joined Earley last week to talk about the $83 million DOE is set to give DTE Energy to quicken the pace of its SmartCurrents program over the next two years. DTE Energy and its technology partners will match the grant.
“We estimate the accelerated startup of the SmartCurrents program will result in the creation of 700 deployment and construction jobs for IT contractors and overhead linemen and 350 permanent positions for suppliers to this effort,” Earley said in a prepared statement. “This estimate does not include second tier or pull-through opportunities created with an increase in local production and commercial growth of this technology.”
SmartCurrents includes deploying 660,000 smart meters, implementing a “smart home” program to provide customer benefits such as dynamic pricing to 5,000 customers and smart appliances to 300 customers and improving grid distribution operations through circuit upgrades, for starters, said a document the White House published last week.
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