DOE announces nearly $30M in grants to modernize electric grid
On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced nearly $30 million in grants to help modernize the electric grid.
The grants, part of the Grid Resilience State and Tribal Formula Grants, will help reduce the impacts of climate-driven extreme weather and natural disasters while ensuring reliability. The money comes from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and will be administered by the DOE’s Grid Deployment Office.
“Every community deserves clean, affordable power for their homes and businesses, a need that is only exacerbated during extreme weather events like the historic flooding and blistering heat waves that are hitting parts of the country this summer,” U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm said. “Thanks to the transformative investments in grid infrastructure under President Biden’s Investing in America agenda and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, we are preparing the nation for a more resilient, clean energy future.”
The grants will be awarded to three states, three tribal nations and an Alaskan Native Corporation. Among the recipients are Connecticut, which will receive $6.5 million to support the integration of variable and distributed energy resources to meet the state’s zero carbon electric sector goal; the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, which will receive $1.8 million to improve and update grid control and operation infrastructure; and the Village of Dot Lake, which will receive $149,000 to be used to develop battery storage for critical facilities.
Since May, the DOE has distributed nearly $354 million in Grid Resilience Formula funds to 23 states, the District of Columbia and 12 tribal entities. Over the next five years, the DOE will distribute $2.3 billion in Grid Resilience State and Tribal Formula Grants.
