The American Public Power Association’s Demonstration of Energy & Efficiency Developments program recently approved funding for various grants and scholarships.
The action took place at DEED’s Spring 2025 meeting held in Sacramento, CA, on April 2 and 3.
The total figure for projects was $546,487. The breakdown is as follows:
• $488,487 for 6 grant projects.
• $52,000 for 13 student internship projects.
• $6,000 for 3 educational scholarship projects.
The DEED program funds research, pilot projects, and education to improve the operations and services of public power utilities.
Scholarship funding was awarded as follows (sponsoring utility listed):
Grants
• New York Power Authority (Machine Learning in Advanced Forecasting of Flow Impact from River Ice, $116,455)
• New York Power Authority (Mixed Fleet Electrification Playbook for Utility Customer Programs, $50,000)
• Energy Northwest (Geothermal Electricity Production Site Exploration Efforts, $92,250)
• Hillsboro Electric Utility (Interactive Customer Academy and Utility Mobile App, $29,782)
• Clarksville Department of Electricity (Sparse Signals, Strong Priors: An Approach to Improving EV Visibility, $75,000)
• Lakeland Electric (Environmental Strategy Development for New Nuclear Site Permitting for Municipal Utilities, $125,000)
Educational scholarship Projects
• Brooks Nigut, City Light Gas & Water (CLGW), $2,000
• Jensen Snipes, City Light Gas & Water (CLGW), $2,000
• Withanage Perera, New Smyrna Beach Utilities Commission, $2,000
Student Internship Projects
• Holyoke Gas & Electric (Cadet Engineering Internship, $4,000)
• City of Hamilton (Systems Engineering Intern, $4,000)
• Muscatine Power and Water (2025 MPW AO Engineering Summer Intern, $4,000)
• Muscatine Power and Water (2025 MPW Metering & Outside Services Summer Intern, $4,000)
• Muscatine Power and Water (2025 MPW Reliability Standards Compliance Cy-bersecurity Intern, $4,000)
• City of New Bern (Electrical Engineering Intern, $4,000)
• Marlow Electric (City of Marlow Internship Project - Spring 2025, $4,000)
• Northern California Power Agency (Accounting Grant Intern, $4,000)
• Cleveland Public Power (Student Intern - Provide support for CPP Grant initia-tives, $4,000)
• Cedar Falls Utilities (Energy Services Internship, $4,000)
• Cuyahoga Falls Electric System (GIS & Asset Data Intern, $4,000)
• ElectriCities of North Carolina, Inc. (EMS/DERMS Engineering Intern - EMS In-ternship, $4,000)
