(Salem, OR) -- Lane County is getting hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal money to help increase the resilience of its local electrical grid. KATU-2 reports the U.S. Department of Energy has awarded the county a 500-thousand-dollar grant to improve the electrical grid in the event of extreme weather. Lane County Policy Director Stephen Adams says extreme weather events have become the new normal and the county needs to replace aging systems that were not built to withstand repeated storms.