The Economic Recovery Act allocated $11 billion for smart grid technology, which will modernize and enhance the nation’s electricity grid. Obama’s budget proposal, along with both the House and Senate budget resolutions, have addressed the need to build on these initiatives in the Economic Recovery package, by investing in clean energy and the modernization of our electricity infrastructure for improved efficiency and reliability.

This is good news, and it looks like the city of Boulder, Colorado has already begun investing in smart grid technology.

A clean-energy smart grid can not only improve our energy efficiency and reliability, but it can build our capacity to transmit renewable energy across the country. Not to mention, by rebuilding our energy infrastructure, we will create green jobs for Americans.

We need to spark a national movement in support of a clean-energy smart grid and generate the political will to make sure this investment happens!

Check out what I Am Progress is doing to build this movement at Get Wired for Progress:

Building a clean-energy smart grid is a critical first step in the transition to a green energy economy. (more…)