Otter Tail Power Co

Innovative Distributed Energy Automation Program to Revolutionize Access to Clean Energy in Our Vast, Rural Service Territory Spanning Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. We Are Proposing a Project to Optimize Our Rural, Tri-state Service Area's Access to an Abundance of Regional Renewable Energy. We Recognize the Unique Challenges Faced by These Communities, Often Characterized by Sparse Populations and Limited Access to Existing Infrastructure. Innovative Distributed Energy Automation Offers a Multifaceted Solution to Bridge This Clean Energy Gap.

Committed

$19.6 Million

Paid to

Otter Tail Power Co

UEI YKNFE1J9CNB4

215 South Cascade Street, Fergus Falls, MN, 56538

Department of Energy

Place

FERGUS FALLS, MN, UNITED STATES

MN-07

Performance

Jan 1, 2025 → Oct 10, 2025

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Source

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Federal grant · project grant (b)

Department of Energy

Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience to

Otter Tail Power Co

Committed

$19.6 Million

Paid to

Otter Tail Power Co

UEI YKNFE1J9CNB4

215 South Cascade Street, Fergus Falls, MN, 56538

Department of Energy

Place

FERGUS FALLS, MN, UNITED STATES

MN-07

Performance

Jan 1, 2025 → Oct 10, 2025

How to read these numbers

One award, start to finish: Everything here is this single award's whole record — signed, amended, paid — not a fiscal-year slice. The by-year charts elsewhere split an award across the years it was committed; this page keeps it whole.
Committed vs. ceiling: Committed is what the government has legally promised on this award so far. Contracts can also carry a ceiling — the maximum if every option is exercised. Unspent ceiling is headroom, not money owed.
Paid out: The cash actually disbursed against this award. The gap from committed is the disbursement pipeline: promised, not yet cashed.
The ledger: Each transaction is a signing event — an action that created or changed the award, dated the day it was signed — not a payment. Negative amounts are real: money de-committed at closeout or renegotiation.
The money bar: One bar, the award’s whole arithmetic: paid out, then committed, not yet paid, then .

Source

This award on USAspending.gov ↗