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). |
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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.
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Next Milestone
Estimated application opening date is Q4 of 2022.
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