The Preventing Outages and Enhancing the Resilience of the Electric Grid/Hazard Hardening program awards grants to eligible entities, States, and Tribes to prevent outages and enhance the resilience of the electric grid.
NDEE plans to support grid improvement projects that result in a more resilient electrical grid and promote a clean and equitable energy economy. Eligible projects will rebuild and restore infrastructure for transmission and distribution, protect existing equipment from weather-related events, support new adaptive protection technology, and provide recruitment and retention of energy technology workers. Funding must be distributed equitably to Nebraskans, including underserved communities that are more susceptible or vulnerable to electric power outages.
Eligible entities are strongly encouraged to submit pre-proposals which provide NDEE with a general outline of each project using a two-page preliminary proposal checklist to be submitted to ndee.gridresiliency@nebraska.gov. Preproposals are due Jan. 31, 2024.
NDEE will assess pre-proposals for eligibility and alignment with program objectives. Prospective grantees may submit multiple pre-proposals at this time, one for each project. However, during the application period grantees will be limited to one comprehensive application submission that focuses on funding for a single project. |