The Department of Energy has an open funding opportunity for the deployment of smart grid technology in local governments that have been located in a county that has experienced a Presidentially Declared Major Disaster between 1984-2014. The DOE anticipates making awards up to 1 million dollars. 50% cost share is required. The funding opportunity closes on March 4.
The Resilient Electricity Delivery Infrastructure (REDI) Initiative is a Department of Energy (DOE) action that focuses on technology transfer of smart grid advances to support the White House initiatives responding to the needs of communities nationwide that are dealing with the impacts of climate change. Through the REDI initiative, the DOE Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (DOE-OE) is providing opportunities to deploy smart grid technologies/tools to improve climate preparedness and resiliency of the electricity delivery infrastructure. Two topic areas are offered to accomplish the objectives of this initiative: 1) implementation and deployment of the best, pre-commercial and/or commercial smart grid technologies/tools (Topic Area 1) and 2) utilizing smart grid technologies/tools from the DOE National Laboratories (Topic Area 2). Projects selected under this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) will implement smart grid distribution and customer-side technologies/tools for climate impact resilience. Transmission technologies/tools are excluded from selection under this FOA.
DOE-OE is making opportunities for awards available to any unit of “Local Government”—defined, for the purposes of this FOA, as a town, township, city, county, city-county government, federally recognized tribal government, or other municipality, including a U.S. territory municipality—located within a county (or county equivalent), that experienced a Presidentially Declared Major Disaster from (and including) 1984 to 2014. The awards to be selected through this FOA must improve electricity resiliency to climate change within the county (or county equivalent) that experienced the Presidentially Declared Major Disaster from (and including) 1984 to 2014. Selected project communities will be expected to demonstrate significant improvements in robustness and recovery of electricity delivery infrastructure. The improvements must be measurable, tangible within 24 months of project start, substantial over a long period of time, accountable for resilience to environmental stressors (e.g., more frequent extreme weather events and other climate change impacts), and be implemented within the county (or county equivalent) that experienced the presidentially declared major disaster from (and including) 1984 to 2014. Applicants proposing to deploy a grid-connected technology/tool should include within their Application an approach to ensure cyber security of the power grid.
The FOA consists of the following two topic areas:
Topic Area #1: Industry Technologies:
· Implementation and deployment of best, pre-commercial and commercial smart grid technologies/tools to help decision makers and resource managers address local climate impacts.
· Smart grid technologies/tools of interest must specifically relate to the electricity delivery infrastructure on the customer-side of the utility’s electric meter and/or in the distribution system. Technologies/tools may serve one or more of the following applications:
o risk assessments and management of climate change impacts,
o preparedness for and recovery from climate change impacts, and
o economic and societal impact analysis of smart grid technologies/tools for climate resilience.
· Examples of commercial and pre-commercial smart grid technologies/tools include, but are not limited to, those listed in Appendix A, that have a direct application for enhanced electricity infrastructure resilience at the distribution level and/or on the customer-side.
· Teaming with an electric utility is encouraged.
· DOE National Laboratory participation is not permitted under Topic Area #1.
Topic Area #2: Laboratory Technologies:
· Implementation and deployment of smart grid technologies/tools developed at DOE National Laboratories to help decision makers and resource managers address local climate impacts.
· Smart grid technologies/tools of interest must originate from the National Laboratories beyond the status of validation or evaluation of an actual system/process prototype in an operational environment. A list (not all inclusive) of smart grid technologies/tools developed by National Laboratories for Topic Area 2 that meet the required readiness level and have a direct application for enhanced electricity delivery infrastructure resilience is provided in Appendix B.
· Smart grid technologies/tools of interest must specifically relate to the electricity delivery infrastructure on the customer-side of the utility’s electric meter and/or in the distribution system. Technologies/tools may serve one or more of the following applications:
o risk assessments and management of climate impacts,
o preparedness for and recovery from climate impacts, and
o economic and societal impact analysis under varying extreme weather scenarios.
· Under Topic Area #2, collaboration with National Laboratories for technical assistance on using the technologies/tools for in‑field demonstration is encouraged, but not required. If the Applicant’s team includes a National Laboratory(ies), the Application must clearly describe specific technical assistance activities to be performed by the National Laboratory team member(s).
o If the Applicant includes a National Laboratory as a team member, DOE will directly fund technical assistance by that National Laboratory.
The complete FOA can be found at http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=270074.
DOE-OE is making opportunities for awards available to any unit of “Local Government”—defined, for the purposes of this FOA, as a town, township, city, county, city-county government, federally recognized tribal government, or other municipality, including a U.S. territory municipality—located within a county (or county equivalent), that experienced a Presidentially Declared Major Disaster from (and including) 1984 to 2014. The awards to be selected through this FOA must improve electricity resiliency to climate change within the county (or county equivalent) that experienced the Presidentially Declared Major Disaster from (and including) 1984 to 2014. Selected project communities will be expected to demonstrate significant improvements in robustness and recovery of electricity delivery infrastructure. The improvements must be measurable, tangible within 24 months of project start, substantial over a long period of time, accountable for resilience to environmental stressors (e.g., more frequent extreme weather events and other climate change impacts), and be implemented within the county (or county equivalent) that experienced the presidentially declared major disaster from (and including) 1984 to 2014. Applicants proposing to deploy a grid-connected technology/tool should include within their Application an approach to ensure cyber security of the power grid.
The FOA consists of the following two topic areas:
Topic Area #1: Industry Technologies:
· Implementation and deployment of best, pre-commercial and commercial smart grid technologies/tools to help decision makers and resource managers address local climate impacts.
· Smart grid technologies/tools of interest must specifically relate to the electricity delivery infrastructure on the customer-side of the utility’s electric meter and/or in the distribution system. Technologies/tools may serve one or more of the following applications:
o risk assessments and management of climate change impacts,
o preparedness for and recovery from climate change impacts, and
o economic and societal impact analysis of smart grid technologies/tools for climate resilience.
· Examples of commercial and pre-commercial smart grid technologies/tools include, but are not limited to, those listed in Appendix A, that have a direct application for enhanced electricity infrastructure resilience at the distribution level and/or on the customer-side.
· Teaming with an electric utility is encouraged.
· DOE National Laboratory participation is not permitted under Topic Area #1.
Topic Area #2: Laboratory Technologies:
· Implementation and deployment of smart grid technologies/tools developed at DOE National Laboratories to help decision makers and resource managers address local climate impacts.
· Smart grid technologies/tools of interest must originate from the National Laboratories beyond the status of validation or evaluation of an actual system/process prototype in an operational environment. A list (not all inclusive) of smart grid technologies/tools developed by National Laboratories for Topic Area 2 that meet the required readiness level and have a direct application for enhanced electricity delivery infrastructure resilience is provided in Appendix B.
· Smart grid technologies/tools of interest must specifically relate to the electricity delivery infrastructure on the customer-side of the utility’s electric meter and/or in the distribution system. Technologies/tools may serve one or more of the following applications:
o risk assessments and management of climate impacts,
o preparedness for and recovery from climate impacts, and
o economic and societal impact analysis under varying extreme weather scenarios.
· Under Topic Area #2, collaboration with National Laboratories for technical assistance on using the technologies/tools for in‑field demonstration is encouraged, but not required. If the Applicant’s team includes a National Laboratory(ies), the Application must clearly describe specific technical assistance activities to be performed by the National Laboratory team member(s).
o If the Applicant includes a National Laboratory as a team member, DOE will directly fund technical assistance by that National Laboratory.
The complete FOA can be found at http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=270074.
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