As part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, White House Infrastructure Implementation Coordinator Mitch Landrieu and Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm have announced $3.46 billion for 58 projects across 44 states to strengthen electric grid resilience and reliability across America.
Funded by the President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, these projects will leverage more than $8 billion in federal and private investments. These transformative projects will help bring more than 35GW of new renewable energy online. The Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships (GRIP) Program, managed by DOE’s Grid Deployment Office (GDO), funds activities to modernise the electric grid to reduce impacts of natural disasters and extreme weather worsened by climate change; increase the flexibility, efficiency, and reliability of the electric power system with a particular focus on unlocking more solar, wind, and other clean energy. Today’s announcements of up to $3.46 billion represent a first round of selections under the broader $10.5 billion GRIP Program.
