The Department of Energy awarded Uns Electric, Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit electric utility company, a $177,926,103 Project Grant under the Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience program (CFDA 81.254). The funding will support the Santa Cruz County Reliability and Capacity Improvement Project, which aims to enhance the resilience and capacity of the transmission system serving communities and businesses in Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Key project goals include driving economic expansion within disadvantaged communities, enhancing transmission system resilience, creating a transmission loop to strengthen regional grid connections, and reducing fossil fuel dependence to address peak load demand. The award has an effective date of January 1, 2025 and a target completion date of December 31, 2029.
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