Assistance program
Electricity Research, Development and Analysis
$195.6 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Energy, Department of, Energy, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants (Cooperative Agreements)
- CFDA number
- 81.122
- What it does
- The Office of Electricity (OE) leads the Department’s research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) programs to strengthen and modernize our Nation’s power grid. OE programs support activities, primarily through competitive solicitations, with key objectives: • RD&D system monitoring and diagnostics, advanced data analytics, and robust control technologies and enhance the reliability and performance of the electricity system, mitigate large-scale blackouts, prepare for, and respond to the impacts of natural disasters, and adapt to evolving system needs, emerging risks, and interdependencies. • Characterize risk and uncertainty across multiple utility and infrastructure boundaries for increased resiliency. • RD&D of technologies, tools, and techniques required by the distribution grid to maintain and improve reliability and resilience. • Develop solutions to strengthen information security and resilience of the electricity delivery system against cyber-related threats. • Accelerate bi-directional electrical energy storage technologies as a key component of a reliable, resilient, and affordable future-ready grid. • Enhance and advance the components and technologies that make up the electric power T&D infrastructure (i.e., grid hardware). • Rapidly assess new grid systems and subsystems by testing integrated technology suites in controlled pilot environments prior to the hardware and software being deployed by industry in operational environments.
- Who benefits
- Profit organizations, private nonprofit institutions/organizations, universities, research organizations, and state and local governments benefit. All information regarding eligibility requirements will be included in the specific funding opportunity announcement
- Who applies
- All types of domestic entities are eligible to apply, such as profit organizations, private nonprofit institutions/organizations, universities, research organizations, and state and local governments. All information regarding eligibility requirements will be included in the specific notice of funding opportunity (NOFO).
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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