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3
As part of our Energizing the Future
initiative, we began investing in nearly
900 smart grid projects designed to
make our transmission system more
robust, secure and resistant to extreme
weather events as well as cyber and
physical attacks.
These smart grid technologies have the
potential to significantly improve our
response time to outages by enabling
more efficient service restoration. In
addition, remote monitoring devices
can proactively evaluate grid conditions
and take corrective actions even before
outages occur. We’re also upgrading our
transmission equipment with advanced
technologies designed to enhance
the reliability of our system and meet
projected load growth in our region.
We continued to move forward with our
Pennsylvania smart meter program,
installing more than 160,000 smart
meters in our Penn Power service area
by the end of 2015. Through this state-
mandated effort, we plan to deploy more
than 2 million smart meters across our
Pennsylvania service area by mid-2019.
Although smart grid technologies can
be costly, we’re receiving full recovery of
our investments in Pennsylvania’s smart
meter program – and we will explore
similar programs in other states that
allow recovery of these costs. In fact,
as part of our proposed ESP, we filed
a plan to evaluate smart meter and
smart grid technologies across our
Ohio service area, subject to PUCO
consideration and approval.
CREATING A
SMARTER GRID
NEARLY
32 MILLION
MEGAWATT-HOURS OF
CARBON-FREE ELECTRICITY
GENERATED BY OUR
THREE NUCLEAR POWER
STATIONS IN 2015
A crew member welds a stainless steel roof for one of three,
1 million-gallon water tanks for the dewatering facility under
construction at our Bruce Mansfield Plant. The facility is
needed to dispose of the plant’s coal combustion byproducts
following the scheduled closing of the Little Blue Run
disposal site at the end of 2016.