The Department of Energy awarded E Source Companies LLC a $165,434,810 project grant under the Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience (CFDA 81.254) program. The objective of this 5-year project, running from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2029, is to develop a unified approach and comprehensive framework to mitigate risks and impacts from grid infrastructure hazards, accelerating the deployment of technologies and best practices to improve situational awareness, reduce response time, and...
This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), is funded for $1,960,000 and aims to accomplish three key objectives under the EERE's "Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Information Dissemination, Outreach, Training and Technical Analysis/Assistance" program (CFDA 81.117): Establish a new methodology for gathering resilience data while conducting energy code field studies. Conduct energy code...
The Department of Energy awarded a $8,791,658 Project Grant to the Fort Pierce Utilities Authority under the Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience (CFDA 81.254) program. This 3-year grant, running from October 2024 to September 2027, seeks to increase grid reliability and resiliency in the face of severe storms and climate change impacts. The key objectives are to: 1) Increase grid reliability in the face of more severe storms and climate change, 2) Increase grid reliability to reduce...
This $289,678,720 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience program (CFDA 81.254) aims to accelerate the adoption of clean energy by modernizing and standardizing electric distribution grid management at the community level. The award to Exelon Business Services Company will fund the implementation of Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS), Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS), and Unbalanced Load...
The National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO) received a $1.4 million project grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis on April 16, 2021 to complete work by July 15, 2021. The grant was awarded under the Energy Policy and Systems Analysis program (CFDA #81.250), which aims to fund analytical studies characterizing potential integrated strategies for multi-state regions to enhance energy innovation through regional...
The Project Grant award "ENERGY-INFORMED CYBER AND PHYSICAL RESILIENCE FOR DISTRIBUTED ENERGY SYSTEMS" was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) in the amount of $200,000.00. The award was made to DER Security Corp, a for-profit organization, and is intended to fund a research project focused on improving the cyber and physical resilience of distributed energy systems. The project period runs from Jul 22, 2024 to Apr...
The Department of Energy awarded a $500,000 Cooperative Agreement to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) under the Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience program (CFDA 81.254). The agreement, with a performance period from May 1, 2023 to April 30, 2025, funds NCSL's programmatic collaboration with state legislatures to provide research, education, and technical assistance on issues related to grid infrastructure modernization, nuclear energy policy, workforce development,...
This $142,409,585 federal Project Grant awarded by the Department of Energy under the Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience program (CFDA 81.254) will deploy innovative digital technology solutions to maximize the value of third-party distributed energy resources (DER) at the distribution level. The key objectives are to: (i) improve distribution grid visibility and autonomous controls for grid operators, (ii) aggregate and integrate DER and other grid-edge devices to provide system...
The Department of Energy awarded a $76,960,488 Project Grant under the Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience (CFDA 81.254) program to E Source Companies LLC, a for-profit limited liability company based in Boulder, Colorado. The grant funding will support a coalition that aims to accelerate the deployment of advanced wildfire risk mitigation technologies for utilities facing wildfire challenges in the Western United States. The key goals are to reduce the probability and consequence of...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award, granted by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the State Energy Program (CFDA 81.041), will provide $2,000,000.00 to the National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO) to support state and territory energy offices in deploying Inflation Reduction Act home energy rebate program funds. The primary objectives are to execute home energy upgrades, deliver benefits to underserved communities, and develop strategies to meet states' near-term and...