Opportunity Information: Apply for DE FOA 0003136
The **Connected Communities 2.0: Innovations to Manage Growing Transportation, Building, and Industrial Loads to the Grid** funding opportunity, issued by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, is designed to support innovations that manage the increasing electricity demands from transportation, industry, and buildings. With an estimated **$65 million** in funding, this initiative focuses on developing tools and strategies that help grid operators, planners, and regulators effectively integrate new energy loads while maintaining reliability and affordability.
The funding opportunity has two key focus areas:
1. **Connected Communities 2.0** – This area emphasizes technical solutions at the grid edge, including energy efficiency, smart electrical panels, solar power, heat pumps, EV charging, and storage. The goal is to enhance grid resilience and ensure the electric system is prepared for rising demand.
2. **Smart Charge Management (SCM)** – This focuses on developing and demonstrating how vehicles can be intelligently integrated into the grid across diverse environments (urban, suburban, rural), ensuring flexibility and cost-effectiveness while supporting grid reliability.
Projects funded under this initiative will aim to:
- Demonstrate how smart coordination of distributed energy resources (DERs) can provide grid support, lower system costs, and improve technology adoption at a scalable level. - Build confidence among utilities, Public Utility Commissions (PUCs), and communities in smart charge management and grid-edge technologies as viable tools for optimizing grid investments. - Enhance grid resilience against growing energy loads, extreme weather, cyber threats, and increased electrification.
This cross-office initiative is co-funded by multiple DOE offices, including BTO, VTO, SETO, IEDO, GTO, and OE. Full details, eligibility requirements, and application instructions are available on the **EERE eXCHANGE** website (**https://eere-exchange.energy.gov**). Applications must be submitted through this portal, and prospective applicants must create an account to apply.Apply for DE FOA 0003136
- The Golden Field Office in the energy sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Connected Communities 2.0: Innovations to Manage Growing Transportation, Building, and Industrial Loads to the Grid" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 81.086.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2024-07-22.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-10-10. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2025.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $6,000,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: Others.
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