Program Upgrading Our Electric Grid and Ensuring Reliability and Resiliency

The Program Upgrading Our Electric Grid and Ensuring Reliability and Resiliency is designed to provide federal financial assistance to demonstrate innovative approaches to transmission, storage, and distribution infrastructure to harden and enhance resilience and reliability; and to demonstrate new approaches to enhance regional grid resilience.

Overview

Office:

Grid Deployment Office

New Program:

Yes

Funding amount:

$5,000,000,000

Funding Mechanism:

Grant, Cooperative Agreement, or Other

Recipients:

State, combination of 2 or more States; Indian Tribes; units of local government, and/or public utility commissions.

Period of Availability:

$1,000,000,000 appropriated annually for fiscal years 2022 through 2026 (to remain available until expended).

More Information

Eligible Uses

To coordinate and collaborate with electric sector owners and operators—(A) to demonstrate innovative approaches to transmission, storage, and distribution infrastructure to harden and enhance resilience and reliability; and (B) to demonstrate new approaches to enhance regional grid resilience, implemented through States by public and rural electric cooperative entities on a cost-shared basis.