Blogs

The National Special Districts Coalition provides weekly highlights for CSDA Members on newly-opened federal grant opportunities, as curated by The Ferguson Group (TFG). This week’s selection of grants include:

New Grant Opportunities

Department of

Energy

FY 2023 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Section 41006. Water Power Projects: Innovative Technologies to Enable Low Impact Hydropower and Pumped Storage Hydropower Growth

WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to address innovative solutions to retrofit non-powered dams with environmentally sustainable hydropower at a reasonable cost; applications to address development and testing technologies that mitigate challenges to pumped storage hydropower deployment, including market and revenue uncertainty, development costs and financing, long development timelines, permitting challenges, construction risks, and environmental impacts; and applications to address and encourage emerging organizations to support hydropower development. Click here for more information. 

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? State and local governmental entities, and tribal nations; for-profit entities, educational institutions, and nonprofit entities that are organized, chartered or incorporated under the laws of a particular state or territory of the US and have a physical location in the US

WHEN'S IT DUE? December 1, 2022 (Concept Paper); March 5, 2023 (Full Application)

Department of Energy

FY 2023 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Section 40334: Pumped Storage Hydropower Wind and Solar Integration and System Reliability Initiative

WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program proposes to project design, transmission studies, power market assessments, and permitting for a pumped storage hydropower (PSH) project to facilitate the long-duration storage of intermittent renewable electricity. Click here for more information. 

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Electric utilities, Indian Tribe or Tribal organizations, State energy offices, institutions of higher education, and consortiums. 

WHEN'S IT DUE? November 18, 2022 (Letter of Intent); December 15, 2022 (Full Application)