To Boost Renewables, Resilient Energy Systems, US Commits $70mn

US Announces $104 Million Investment Plan For New Net-Zero Facilities

The United States (US) Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $70 million of funding to support research into technologies designed to increase resilience in energy delivery infrastructure. The move is likely to boost the renewables into the system and boost the capabilities of the grid infrastructure in the country. 

The funding would support from hazards, including cyber and physical threats, natural disasters, and climate-change fueled extreme weather events. All-Hazards energy resilience funding opportunity will support research projects to help make the nation’s energy systems more secure, resilient, and reliable, bolstering America’s ability to quickly recover from energy disruptions.

This would help to increase resilience and reduce risks to energy delivery infrastructure from a variety of hazards, including cyber and physical threats, natural disasters, and climate-change fueled extreme weather events. This new competitive funding opportunity will be available to public and private sector stakeholders, universities, and DOE’s National Laboratories and will help advance next-generation innovations that strengthen the resilience of America’s energy systems, which include the power grid, electric utilities, pipelines, and renewable energy generation sources like wind or solar.

This announcement reinforced the U.S. president Biden-Harris administration’s efforts to build strong and secure energy infrastructure across the country, which is key to bolstering America’s energy and national security and reaching President Biden’s goal of a net-zero emissions economy by 2050. The Biden-Harris Administration has also made investments in climate resilience and adaptation, including more than $50 billion from the President’s Investing in America agenda.

“Making smart investments in America’s energy systems today is essential to ensuring they’re more reliable and resilient against tomorrow’s threats, while also reaching President Biden’s ambitious clean energy and climate goals,” said U.S. secretary of energy Jennifer M. Granholm. “As we build our clean energy future, these investments will help save money in the long run by identifying and developing innovative solutions that ensure our nation’s energy infrastructure can withstand emerging threats and the challenges of a changing world.”

Managed by DOE’s office of cybersecurity, energy security, and emergency response (CESER), the all-hazards energy resilience program seeks to address future challenges so that energy can continue to flow safely and reliably to communities across the nation. 

As the climate and technology landscape is constantly changing, this funding opportunity is intentionally broad, and awardees are encouraged to develop innovative and unique solutions that are not “one size fits all.” Awardees will span all types of energy delivery infrastructure and will address a diverse array of potential threats across energy production, generation, transmission, and/or distribution. CESER is expected to fund up to 25 research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) projects under this funding opportunity ranging from $500,000 to $5,000,000. DOE encourages diverse teams from universities, nonprofit and for-profit companies, national laboratories, state and local governments, and Tribal Nations to apply.

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