As part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the Grid Deployment Office is administering a $10.5 billion Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships (GRIP) Program to enhance grid flexibility and improve the resilience of the power system against extreme weather.
These programs will accelerate the deployment of transformative projects that will help to ensure the reliability of the power sector’s infrastructure, so all American communities have access to affordable, reliable electricity.
Selections
Through the first and second rounds of GRIP funding, GDO has announced a total of $7.6 billion in funding for 105 selected projects in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
- December 20, 2024: $28.7 Million to Protect the Grid Against Extreme Weather
- October 18, 2024: $2 Billion to Protect the Grid Against Growing Threats of Extreme Weather, Expand Transmission
- August 6, 2024: $2.2 Billion Investment in the Nation's Grid to Protect Against Extreme Weather, Lower Costs, and Prepare for Growing Demand
- October 18, 2023: $3.5 Billion for Largest Ever Investment in America’s Electric Grid, Deploying More Clean Energy, Lowering Costs, and Creating Union Jobs
Boosting Grid Resilience in Communities Impacted by Hurricanes Helene and Milton
On October 13, 2024, the U.S. Department of Energy announced more than $600 million through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to bolster grid resilience and reliability in the face of extreme weather and increased electricity demand across the states affected by Hurricanes Helene and Milton.
Funding Opportunities
On October 18, 2024, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced about $4.2 billion in federal investments for 46 projects in 47 states, plus the District of Columbia that will protect the U.S. power grid against growing threats of extreme weather, lower costs for communities, and increase grid capacity to meet load growth stemming from an increase in manufacturing, data centers, and electrification. See the full list of projects.
On October 18, 2023, the U.S. Department of Energy announced up to $3.46 billion in Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships (GRIP) Program investments for 58 projects across 44 states to strengthen electric grid resilience and reliability across America. This includes 16 projects selected under Grid Resilience Utility and Industry Grants. See the full list of projects.
Program Information
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The Grid Resilience Utility and Industry Grants support the modernization of the electric grid to reduce impacts due to extreme weather and natural disasters.January 14, 2025
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Smart Grid Grants is designed to increase the flexibility, efficiency, and reliability of the electric power system.January 14, 2025
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The Grid Innovation Program provides $5 billion for FY 22-26 to support projects that use innovative approaches to transmission, storage, and distribution infrastructure to enhance grid resilience and reliability.January 14, 2025
Benefits
Grid Resilience Utility and Industry Grants support activities that will modernize the electric grid to reduce impacts due to extreme weather and natural disasters. This program will fund comprehensive transformational transmission and distribution technology solutions that will mitigate multiple hazards across a region or within a community, including wildfires, floods, hurricanes, extreme heat, extreme cold, storms, and any other event that can cause a disruption to the power system. This program provides grants to electric grid operators, electricity storage operators, electricity generators, transmission owners or operators, distribution providers, and fuel suppliers.
Smart Grid Grants increase the flexibility, efficiency, and reliability of the electric power system, with particular focus on increasing capacity of the transmission system, preventing faults that may lead to wildfires or other system disturbances, integrating renewable energy at the transmission and distribution levels, and facilitating the integration of increasing electrified vehicles, buildings, and other grid-edge devices. Smart grid technologies funded and deployed at scale under this program will demonstrate a pathway to wider market adoption. This grant program has broad eligibility, open to domestic entities including institutions of higher education; for-profit entities; non-profit entities; and state and local governmental entities, and tribal nations.
Grid Innovation Program provides financial assistance to one or multiple states, Tribes, local governments, and public utility commissions to collaborate with electric sector owners and operators to deploy projects that use innovative approaches to transmission, storage, and distribution infrastructure to enhance grid resilience and reliability. Broad project applications are of interest including interregional transmission projects, investments that accelerate interconnection of diverse energy generation, utilization of distribution grid assets to provide backup power and reduce transmission requirements, and more. Innovative approaches can range from use of advanced technologies to innovative partnerships to the deployment of projects identified by innovative planning processes to many others.
Resources
Visit the Grid and Transmission Program Conductor for additional information to help identify which financing program is most appropriate for individual projects.
Resources that were published before October 2023 pertain to the first GRIP funding opportunity (FY22-FY23). They do not reflect the release of the second funding opportunity (FY24-FY25) released on November 14, 2023.
Information Resources
- GRIP Overview Fact Sheet (October 2023)
- Grid Resilience Utility and Industry Grants Fact Sheet (December 2022)
- Smart Grid Grants Fact Sheet (December 2022)
- Grid Innovation Program Fact Sheet (December 2022)
- GRIP Call for Reviewers (March 2023)
- GRIP Concept Paper Guidance (December 2022)
- GRIP Frequently Asked Questions for FY22 and FY23 (May 2023)
- GRIP Teaming Partner List (March 2023)
Technical Assistance
In support of achieving Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships Program goals and addressing supply chain challenges for securing digital energy infrastructure, GDO’s Reliability, Risk, and Assurance Program is offering educational resources, training, and technical assistance from the world-class experts and researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s national labs. Visit the Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships (GRIP) Program Technical Assistance Resource Center to learn more.