The U.S. Department of Energy’s Grid Deployment Office in December released a notice of intent to open the Fiscal Year 2025 Grid Resilience State and Tribal Formula Grants application and allocation request period in February 2025.
The application period will open with DOE issuing an amended Administrative and Legal Requirements Document providing instructions for FY25 grant allocation requests.
The Notice of Intent is available online.
The grants “help modernize the electric grid to reduce the impacts of extreme weather and natural disasters while also ensuring the reliability of the power sector,” DOE said.
The process of requesting FY25 allocations will vary depending on an applicant’s current status in the program.
Existing grant recipients that have already received grants for prior fiscal years will have 90 days from the issuance of the ALRD Amendment to request their FY25 allocation.
New grant applicants that meet eligibility requirements defined in the ALRD amendment and that have not received a previous grant from this program will have 90 days from issuance of the ALRD amendment to submit a grant application for a FY25 allocation. Several one-time actions, explained below, must be completed before an application can be submitted, including registration with the System for Award Management, obtaining a Unique Entity Identifier, and registering with FedConnect.net.
These actions can be completed prior to the issuance of ALRD amendment. Prospective new grant applicants are encouraged to address these items as soon as possible, as some may take several weeks to complete. Additional instructions for new grant applicants will be provided in the ALRD amendment.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law authorized GDO to distribute up to $2.3 billion in Grid Resilience State and Tribal Formula Grants to states, territories, and federally recognized Indian tribes, including Alaska Native Regional Corporations and Alaska Native Village Corporations, based on a formula that includes factors such as population size, land area, probability and severity of disruptive events, and a locality’s historical expenditures on mitigation efforts.
The states, territories, and Indian tribes will then award these funds to eligible entities to complete a diverse set of projects, with priority given to efforts that generate the greatest community benefit while providing affordable and reliable energy.
A full list of current grant recipients, as well as highlights on how they intend to deploy their funds, is available online.
Neither applications nor allocation requests are being accepted at this time.
DOE expects to issue the ALRD amendment and begin accepting applications in February 2025.
