States, Tribal nations and territories have until 11:59 p.m. ET Sept. 30, to apply for a $2.3 billion formula grant program designed to prevent outages in America’s power grid.
The Preventing Outages and Enhancing the Resilience of the Electric Grid program administered through the Department of Energy’s Building a Better Grid Initiative has a goal of strengthening and modernizing “America’s power grid against wildfires, extreme weather and other natural disasters exacerbated by the climate crisis,” a July 6 news release said.
“Every community deserves a strong and reliable energy grid that can deploy cleaner, cheaper power to homes and businesses,” U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm said in the release. “Thanks to the transformative investments in grid infrastructure from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, we can help protect our neighborhoods, main streets and downtowns from grid shutdowns during extreme weather events, while creating good-paying jobs in the process.”
The program will provide states and tribal nations with $459 million annually over a five-year period to enhance electric grid resiliency, the release reported.
“NEW: @ENERGY opened the application period for states, Tribal nations and territories to apply for the $2.3B formula grant program designed to strengthen and modernize the power #grid against power outages caused by extreme weather and other natural disasters,” the Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity posted July 7 on Twitter.
"Protecting America's grid from extreme weather is one of our top priorities,” the DOE said in a July 6 post on Twitter. “We're investing $2B+ from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to help states, Tribal nations and territories keep the power on and deliver clean, affordable, resilient energy."
