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This week's awards: ERA's Community Scale Rural Bioenergy Facilities Project, Fort Lupton Microgrid Project, and Microgrids for Community Affordability, Resilience, and Energy Decarbonization (CARED) ; LDES Demonstrating LDES for Military Installation Energy Resilience Project
To share how historic levels of federal and private investment are positively impacting communities across the country, this monthly newsletter showcases grid projects that have successfully completed award negotiations and are beginning work.

As part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) today opened applications for up to $400 million to spur innovative, community-focused, clean energy solutions for rural and remote communities across the United States.

Jenna Faupel received a Federal Energy and Water Management Award (FEWMA) for improving the U.S. Department of State's data collection process for 244 overseas locations.

This week's awards: Mine Land's A Model for Transition: Coal-to-Solar in West Virginia; ERA's Chignik Hydroelectric Dam and Water Source Project; ERA's Hopi Nation Community Solar Project; ERA Grant's New Stuyahok Solar-Battery; IDP's Syngas Production from Recycled Chemical Byproduct Streams
Today the U.S. Department of Energy’s Grid Deployment Office (GDO) released a Request for Information (RFI) seeking input and Letters of Interest (LOI) from potential applicants for the Civil Nuclear Credit (CNC) Program.

OCED issued a Notice of Intent (NOI) to fund up to $1.3 billion to catalyze investments in transformative carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technologies.

This week's awards: CC Demos' Project Tundra; ERA Grant's Rural Rebuild and Reconductor, Transmission Line Rebuild; IDP's Hydrogen-Ready Direct Reduced Iron Plant and Electric Melting Furnace Installation; Mine Land's Lewis Ridge, Mineral Basin
Funded by GDO and the Washington State Department of Commerce, the 18-month study will explore how utilities in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington can plan infrastructure investments to address complex dynamics facing the region such as high load growth, electrification, planning for extreme weather events, and meeting decarbonization targets. The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) will perform and administer PREPP.

OCED issued a Notice of Intent (NOI) to fund up to $1.8 billion for the design, construction, and operation of mid- and large-scale commercial direct air capture (DAC) facilities and infrastructure scaling platforms.