Puerto Rico Energy Resilience Fund: Resilient Communities Program
The "Puerto Rico Energy Resilience Fund: Resilient Communities Program" grant aims to use $1B in funding to enhance Puerto Rico's energy resilience and clean energy economy, particularly focusing on mitigating power outage impacts on low-income residents, ensuring energy reliability for healthcare services in disadvantaged communities, and supporting the growth of the clean energy workforce, through the installation of solar PV and battery storage in subsidized multi-family properties and community healthcare facilities.
Puerto Rico Energy Resilience Fund: Resilient Communities Program - Modification 000001 - The purpose of this modification is to further define the Go/No-Go review process prior to construction.In December 2022, President Biden signed the FY 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act into law, which included $1B to drive key investments in renewable and resilient energy infrastructure in Puerto Rico. On February 21, 2023, DOEs Grid Deployment Office (GDO) established the Puerto Rico Energy Resilience Fund (PR-ERF) to administer the $1B through programs focused on both residential and community-based energy resilience investments, including but not limited to, solar photovoltaic (PV) and battery storage deployments, as well as community partnerships and other activities to grow Puerto Ricos clean energy economy.This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) under the PR-ERF has three Strategic Goals: (1) Mitigate against the disproportionate impacts associated with severe and prolonged power outages affecting low- and moderate-income residents of public or privately owned subsidized multi-family properties through energy resilience investments. (2) Enable quality, equitable health care services for the most vulnerable populations and disadvantaged communities, who include the medically underserved in Puerto Rico, by ensuring energy reliability and resiliency. (3) Support the growth of the clean energy workforce in Puerto Rico.To accomplish these goals, this FOA has two (2) Topic Areas:Topic Area 1: Solar PV and Battery Storage Installations for Common Areas within Public or Privately Owned Subsidized Multi-Family PropertiesTopic Area 2: Solar PV and Battery Storage Installations for Community Healthcare Facilities
Award Range
Not specified - $185,000,000
Total Program Funding
$325,000,000
Number of Awards
4
Matching Requirement
Yes - The cost share must be at least 10% of the total allowable costs of the project (i.e., the sum of the Government share, and the recipient share of allowable costs equals the total allowable costs of the projects) and must come from non-Federal sources unless otherwise allowed by law. See 2 CFR part 200.306 as adopted and supplemented by 2 CFR part 910.130 for the applicable cost sharing requirements.
Eligible Applicants
Additional Requirements
The following entities would be eligible to apply individually or as collaboratives: • Public Housing Authorities that manage public housing projects • Non-profits and for-profit entities that own or operate HUD-assisted housing projects • Other non-profit and for-profit entities can qualify as the prime applicant if they demonstrate partnerships and/or the potential to form partnerships with firm letters of commitments, and show substantial involvement from subrecipients that own, operate, manage, or administer eligible public and/or subsidized housing.
Geographic Eligibility
All
Application Opens
August 28, 2024
Application Closes
October 22, 2024
Grantor
U.S. Department of Energy (National Energy Technology Laboratory)
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