KCP&L Selects Siemens for Smart Grid Demonstration Project

Siemens Energy Inc. has been selected by electric utility KCP&L, Kansas City, Mo., to provide a Smart Grid demonstration project showing how the latest technologies will enable the advanced utility of the future. Partial funding for the project is from the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act's Smart Grid Investment Grant Demonstration Project program. Siemens' scope of the project includes Siemens Spectrum Powerdistribution management system to coordinate the Midtown substation, Siemens Smart Substation Controller and control of all intelligent distribution field equipment. Details