A quick look at the funding allocated to states, territories, and tribes for the Grid Resilience State and Tribal Formula Grants, a program authorized by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. As of September 2023, the Department of Energy has awarded more than $748 million to these jurisdictions to strengthen and modernize America’s power grid against wildfires, extreme weather, and other natural disasters.
The DOE also announced up to $3.5 billion in cost sharing for 58 projects in the Grid Resilience and Innovation Program, including 12 public power projects.
- Burlington Electric Department, Vermont - $1.1 million to create a network of grid-interactive efficient buildings
- City of Lake Worth, Florida - $23.5 million to deploy AMI, energy storage, new fiber optics, a meter data management system, and other devices
- City of Naperville, Illinois - $1.1 million to deploy a distributed energy resource management system
- CPS Energy, Texas - $30.2 million to implement technology to optimize DER integration and other smart grid devices
- EPB Chattanooga, Tennessee - $32.3 million to develop a series of six microgrids and underground key circuits
- Fort Pierce Utilities Authority, Florida - $5.8 million to upgrade substation transformers
- Jamestown Board of Public Utilities, New York - $17.3 million to create a microgrid
- Kaukauna Utilities, Wisconsin - $3 million to deploy technology to improve the resilience of its hydroelectric facilities, including installing a battery storage system
- Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, California - $48 million to aggregate and integrate distributed resources, including EV chargers, rooftop solar, and energy storage systems
- Sacramento Municipal Utility District, California - $50 million to develop an advanced smart grid, including modernizing its outage management system and an advanced distributed energy resources management system
- Snohomish PUD, Washington - $30 million to deploy smart grid devices
