Energy Technology Innovation Partnership Project Opens Applications To Support Coastal, Remote, & Island Communities

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Program Supplies Power Planning and Technical Help for Native Governments, Group Organizations, Utilities, and Different Teams Throughout the Nation

Many coastal, distant, and island communities want extra inexpensive, dependable, and safe vitality techniques however lack the sources to vary the established order. Growing old infrastructure and harsh climate circumstances can go away these comparatively remoted locations susceptible to vitality disruptions and the attendant restoration prices.

The U.S. Division of Power’s (DOE’s) Energy Technology Innovation Partnership Project (ETIPP) connects these communities with vitality specialists who can ship strategic vitality evaluation and planning help to enhance the affordability, reliability, and safety of their native vitality techniques. ETIPP is accepting purposes now by means of July 27, 2025, for brand new communities to affix this system.

ETIPP communities obtain as much as two years of technical help from researchers on the Nationwide Renewable Power Laboratory (NREL) and different nationwide laboratories, together with enter from regional associate organizations which have related experience and connections of their particular geographic areas.

This program affords two tracks for technical help: strategic vitality planning or technical deep dives. Communities within the early levels of planning vitality system enhancements will spend 4 to eight months in ETIPP growing a strategic vitality plan that clearly defines their vitality objectives and goals. These becoming a member of ETIPP with an present vitality plan or well-defined vitality challenge will embark on a 12- to 24-month course of to discover the technical dimensions of particular vitality options.

Now getting into its fifth yr, ETIPP has already partnered with 57 communities—together with native governments, Tribes, community-based organizations, and utilities—to develop strategic plans and validate potential expertise investments for native vitality tasks.

Offering native leaders with info to handle native vitality challenges is the important thing driver of ETIPP’s providers. Communities collaborate with nationwide laboratory researchers from Lawrence Berkeley Nationwide Laboratory, NREL, Pacific Northwest Nationwide Laboratory, and Sandia Nationwide Laboratories to advance their native objectives and make selections knowledgeable by world-class modeling and evaluation.

Moreover, chosen communities might have the chance to obtain funds (as much as $20,000 for communities chosen for strategic vitality planning and as much as $50,000 for these partaking with deep-dive technical help) for providers rendered to assist implement the technical help.

ETIPP is presently accepting purposes by means of July 27, 2025. Potential candidates should first contact an ETIPP regional associate or program supervisor to debate their eligibility. ETIPP’s regional companions embrace Groundswell for the Southeastern Seaboard area; Hawaii State Power Workplace for the Pacific area; Hispanic Federation for communities in Caribbean territories; Island Institute for Northeast communities; Renewable Power Alaska Mission for Alaska; Slipstream for communities within the Nice Lakes area; Spark Northwest for communities within the Pacific Northwest; and Southeast Sustainability Administrators Community and STEM NOLA for communities alongside the Gulf Coast.

Go to the ETIPP page to be taught extra about this system, eligibility, and software course of and to use.

ETIPP is managed by NREL and funded and supported by the U.S. Division of Power’s Workplace of Power Effectivity and Renewable Power.

Article from NREL. By Brooke Van Zandt.