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 utilities 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 includes its Spectrum Power distribution management system to coordinate the Midtown substation, Siemens Smart Substation Controller and control of all intelligent distribution field equipment.