The Utah Office of Energy Development (OED) has been awarded $249.6 million from the Department of Energy’s Grid Deployment Office for project RELIEF (Reliable Electric Lines: Infrastructure Expansion Framework). An additional $252 million in matching dollars will be provided by project partners, PacifiCorp and Garkane Power, bringing the total funding to over half a billion dollars to improve the power grid reliability in the state, OED said.

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