Chattanooga’s electricity grid will undergo nearly $65 million of upgrades over the next five years to reduce both the number and duration of power outages for nearly 180,000 EPB customers.
EPB was among 58 utilities from across the nation selected Wednesday to share in another $3.5 billion of federal matching grants awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy.
The funds come from the $1.2 trillion infrastructure spending package pushed by President Joe Biden and adopted by Congress two years ago with no support from Republican representatives in Congress from Tennessee or Georgia.
EPB President David Wade said the city-owned utility will use the funding to accelerate its program of burying another 101 miles of power lines and circuits, replacing at least 1,388 aging poles and building six new microgrids for backup power.
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