The US Department of Energy allocated $1.9 billion to advanced transmission projects, expecting 23 gigawatts of additional grid capacity.

Utility Dive reports that advanced transmission projects received $1.9 billion in US Department of Energy funding. The department expects the projects to add 23 gigawatts (GW) of grid capacity.

The capacity figure concerns improvements to the transmission system, not 23 GW of new generating plants or dedicated data-center power allocations. It is a departmental expectation for the funded projects, not capacity reported as already operational.

The department also said the projects would come online in “record time” to improve the existing transmission system. The supplied excerpt provides no project-by-project awards, completion dates, or underlying schedule comparison, so that timing description remains an attributed claim.