SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — City Water, Light and Power in Springfield is getting $1.1 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to upgrade electric infrastructure in the city.

The grant, which was approved by the city council Tuesday night, will go towards a $1.6 million project.

The money will be used to modernize substations, improve service reliability and shorten outage restoration times. It will also help reduce truck time and emissions and provide a more resilient and efficient grid for customers.

"Improving reliability to our network of real time monitoring and automated response features is a great investment for our city," said CWLP Chief Utility Engineer Doug Brown. "This is about restoring our customer's power as safely and quickly as possible."

CWLP said existing facilitie

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