Cincinnati State to offer ‘Smart Grid’ major (Cincinnati)

Cincinnati State Technical and Community College will offer a “Smart Grid” associate's degree beginning in the coming fall academic year, the school said Wednesday.

The major will focus on smart grid technology now being implemented by electric utilities, including Duke Energy Corp., which received $200 million in federal stimulus funding to install residential meters with the technology.

A recent study by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory reports that smart grid technology could decrease annual electric energy use and utility-sector carbon emissions by at least 12 percent by 2030.

Read the full story in the Cincinnati Business Courier

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