$325 Million to Fund Solar & Battery Storage for Community Healthcare Facilities & Multi-Family Housing Serving Low-and-Moderate-Income Communities in Puerto Rico

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Constructing on DOE’s Programa Acceso Photo voltaic for Single Household Households, New $325 Million Funding Will Enhance Power Resilience for Even Extra Susceptible Puerto Rican Communities

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COAMO, PUERTO RICO — Yesterday, the U.S. Division of Power (DOE) announced its intent to subject a $325 million funding alternative for the brand new Programa de Comunidades Resilientes, funded by DOE’s Puerto Rico Energy Resilience Fund (PR-ERF). This new program goals to enhance community-level vitality resilience for weak populations throughout Puerto Rico, funding photo voltaic and battery storage installations for neighborhood healthcare amenities in addition to neighborhood facilities and customary areas inside backed multi-family housing properties.

“The Biden-Harris Administration has proven its commitment to helping thousands of Puerto Rican households access affordable solar and battery storage, but households aren’t the only place you need power during and after an emergency,” mentioned U.S. Secretary of Power Jennifer M. Granholm. “Through the Programa de Comunidades Resilientes, we’re expanding solar access to community healthcare facilities and subsidized multifamily housing, helping bring resilience and safety to even more families on the Island.”

Candidates might embrace particular person entities or groups based mostly in Puerto Rico that may coordinate the deployment of photo voltaic and battery storage techniques throughout many particular person websites. DOE anticipates that as much as $325 million will probably be accessible via the Programa de Comunidades Resilientes for photo voltaic and battery storage techniques throughout two forms of neighborhood infrastructure:

• Neighborhood Healthcare Services: DOE might award between $70 million and $140 million to fund vitality resilience options for federally certified well being facilities, dialysis facilities, and diagnostic and remedy facilities.
• Multi-Household Housing Properties: DOE might award between $93 million and $185 million to fund vitality resilience options for neighborhood facilities and customary areas inside public or privately owned multi-family housing properties backed by the U.S. Division of Housing and City Improvement. DOE anticipates funding tasks for backed multifamily housing that energy sure frequent areas accessible to all residents in addition to shared constructing infrastructure that is dependent upon electrical energy, resembling elevators. Moreover, DOE anticipates that neighborhood facilities positioned on Puerto Rico public housing properties would even be eligible for installations below the Programa de Comunidades Resilientes.

In December 2022, President Biden signed into regulation $1 billion for the institution of the PR-ERF to drive key investments in renewable and resilient vitality infrastructure in Puerto Rico. In February 2024DOE launched the Solar Access Program via the PR-ERF to attach low-income Puerto Rican households with backed residential photo voltaic and battery storage techniques. Residents of Puerto Rico can go to energy.gov/solarPR to verify their eligibility and attain out to their native Photo voltaic Ambassador to use.

Learn the total Notice of Intent.

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Courtesy of US DOE.