DOE DE-FOA-0002740: 2023 BIL Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships (GRIP) - Topic Area 2: Smart Grid Grants

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An entity may only submit one Concept Paper and one Full Application for each topic area of this FOA. UofA is only eligible for Topic Area 2: Smart Grid Grants

The BIL is a once-in-a-generation investment in infrastructure, designed to modernize and upgrade American infrastructure to enhance U.S. competitiveness, driving the creation of good-paying union jobs, tackling the climate crisis, and ensuring stronger access to economic, environmental, and other benefits for disadvantaged communities (DACs). 

This FOA seeks applications to address these three goals:
1. Transform community, regional, interregional, and national resilience, including in consideration of future shifts in generation and load
2. Catalyze and leverage private sector and non-federal public capital for impactful technology and infrastructure deployment
3. Advance community benefits

Topic Area 2: Smart Grid Grants (40107)
Objectives Topic Area 2 seeks to deploy and catalyze technology solutions that increase the flexibility, efficiency, reliability, and resilience of the electric power system, with particular focus on enhancing the system’s capabilities to meet the following objectives:

• increase the capacity of transmission facilities or the capability of the transmission system to reliably transfer increased amounts of electric energy; 
• prevent faults that may lead to wildfires or other system disturbances;
• integrate variable renewable energy resources at the transmission and distribution levels; and, 
• facilitate the aggregation and integration (edge-computing) of electric vehicles and other grid-edge devices or electrified loads.