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Grid Resilience Grant Award

York Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive, Inc. (YEC) is pleased to receive a sec­ond round of grant mon­ey from San­tee Coop­er through the Grid Resilience Grant Pro­gram, fund­ed by the US Depart­ment of Ener­gy (DOE). This mon­ey will be used to com­plete projects with­in our ser­vice ter­ri­to­ry.

For more infor­ma­tion on the sec­ond round of projects and the grant appli­ca­tion process, please vis­it the San­tee Coop­er web­site and look for updates in South Car­oli­na Liv­ing mag­a­zine from your coop­er­a­tive.

To get a more com­plete look at projects that are either under way or com­plet­ed from the first round of grant mon­ey, please vis­it San­tee Coop­er’s Grid Resilience updates page.

Read the press release below for more details.

The image displays the logo of "Santee Cooper," featuring stylized green letters "SC" above the company's name on a light gray background.MONCKS CORNER, S.C. – San­tee Coop­er has secured final approval for 14 projects, total­ing $6.9 mil­lion in fund­ing, sub­mit­ted to its Grid Resilience Grant Pro­gram last year by elec­tric coop­er­a­tives and munic­i­pal and oth­er util­i­ties from across South Car­oli­na.

Togeth­er, the projects rep­re­sent grid improve­ments that will reduce the num­ber of out­ages and improve restora­tion times dur­ing extreme weath­er events, pri­mar­i­ly in dis­ad­van­taged areas of the state. San­tee Coop­er is serv­ing as the state admin­is­tra­tor for the for­mu­la grant pro­vid­ed to South Car­oli­na through the Bipar­ti­san Infra­struc­ture Law, sec­tion 40101(d). The projects sub­mit­ted to and approved by the U.S. Depart­ment of Ener­gy (DOE) rep­re­sent fund­ing avail­able for fed­er­al fis­cal year 2024.

San­tee Coop­er and inde­pen­dent con­sul­tant Guide­house reviewed the project sub­mis­sions. Guide­house scored each project using the met­ric in the RFP. The 17 projects sub­mit­ted to San­tee Coop­er request­ed more than the avail­able fund­ing. There­fore, only the 14 high­est scor­ing projects were sent to the Depart­ment of Ener­gy for eval­u­a­tion. The DOE approval clears the way for project work to begin.

“These 14 projects rep­re­sent a pow­er­ful step for­ward in strength­en­ing South Carolina’s elec­tric grid, espe­cial­ly in com­mu­ni­ties that are most vul­ner­a­ble to out­ages,” said Jim­my Sta­ton, Pres­i­dent and CEO of San­tee Coop­er. “We’re proud to part­ner with the Depart­ment of Ener­gy and util­i­ties across the state to deliv­er smarter, more resilient ener­gy solu­tions for South Car­olini­ans.”

Projects

City of Clin­ton — $445,200

Veg­e­ta­tion man­age­ment, out­age man­age­ment, and pole inspec­tions.

City of Rock Hill — $397,123

Installing new under­ground elec­tric lines and appur­te­nances and light­ing in a 10-foot ease­ment acquired from affect­ed prop­er­ty own­ers. Old over­head lines will be con­vert­ed to new under­ground and old infra­struc­ture will be removed.

Fair­field Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive — $99,000

Imple­ment­ing a com­pre­hen­sive Fault Indi­ca­tor Sys­tem (FI Sys­tem) to enhance grid resilience by enabling rapid detec­tion, pre­cise loca­tion, and effi­cient man­age­ment of faults.

Fair­field Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive — $210,000

Instal­la­tion of 7 three-phase elec­tron­ic reclosers down­line from Fair­field­’s Winns­boro sub­sta­tion on Cir­cuit 1.

Fair­field Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive — $330,000

Instal­la­tion of 11 three-phase elec­tron­ic reclosers down­line from Fair­field­’s Wood­ward sub­sta­tion.

Greer CPW — $1,047,000

Increase sys­tem automa­tion capa­ble of pro­vid­ing real time data dur­ing events, fault ID, fault iso­la­tion, and ser­vice restora­tion dur­ing extreme weath­er events and pub­lic inter­fer­ence caused out­ages.

Lau­rens CPW — $1,347,097

Recon­duc­tor the pri­ma­ry and sec­ondary elec­tric dis­tri­b­u­tion lines and accel­er­ate veg­e­ta­tion man­age­ment in the DACs of the city.

MPD Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive — $319,104

Instal­la­tion of dis­tri­b­u­tion man­age­ment and automa­tion sys­tems. Com­pact Mod­u­lar Reclosers (CMR) will be installed, along with Remote Con­trol Units (RCU), in order to auto­mat­i­cal­ly clear instan­ta­neous and short dura­tion faults.

MPD Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive — $286,045

Increase grid resilience in rur­al com­mu­ni­ties by upgrad­ing exist­ing sin­gle phase elec­tri­cal lines to either V‑phase or three-phase con­fig­u­ra­tions to bet­ter the effi­cien­cy and reli­a­bil­i­ty of the pow­er dis­tri­b­u­tion sys­tem.

MPD Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive — $720,043

Replac­ing old or dam­aged util­i­ty poles with new poles to enhance reli­a­bil­i­ty and safe­ty. Updat­ing infra­struc­ture to low­er SAID and CAIDI dur­ing nor­mal and extreme events.

Orange­burg DPU — $689,721

Imple­ment remote sens­ing solu­tions for veg­e­ta­tion, replace trans­mis­sion con­duc­tors and poles, replace FIR with steel, replace insu­la­tors, sta­t­ic lines and oth­er ancil­lary mate­r­i­al, replace old­er elec­tro­chem­i­cal reclos­er with new elec­tron­ic device.

York Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive — $539,956

Chang­ing exist­ing Pow­er-Line-Car­ri­er (PLC) meters to AMI cen­sus meters.

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