25 New Coastal, Remote, & Island Communities Join Energy Transitions Initiative Partnership Project

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Power Transitions Initiative Partnership Challenge (ETIPP) will have interaction communities in power planning, pure catastrophe preparedness, and evaluation of renewable applied sciences, together with photo voltaic, wind, battery storage, and warmth pumps.

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At the moment, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) welcomed 25 new coastal, distant, and island communities to the Power Transitions Initiative Partnership Challenge (ETIPP) because the technical help program’s fourth cohort. All these geographically remoted communities face distinctive power challenges, together with points with accessing dependable and inexpensive energy and rising power resilience. ETIPP helps communities assess and advance the clear power options that greatest meet their wants, with assist from specialists at DOE’s nationwide labs and a community of regional companion organizations.

“DOE is committed to closing the gap between clean energy ambitions and real-world deployment in communities across America where tailored solutions are needed to overcome barriers,” mentioned Jeff Marootian, principal deputy assistant secretary for the Workplace of Power Effectivity and Renewable Power. “ETIPP provides communities with the tools and resources they need to realize an equitable, cleaner, and more resilient energy future, no matter their location or unique challenges.”

This marks ETIPP’s largest cohort thus far, almost double the whole variety of communities which have participated in this system because it launched in 2020. It’s additionally probably the most geographically numerous cohort, due to expanded partnerships with regional companion organizations and devoted funding to assist their capability constructing engagements with communities of their areas. Neighborhood initiatives embrace electrical transportation, solar energy interconnection, wind power potential, wildfire preparedness, house warmth pumps and weatherization retrofits, and microgrids and battery storage, amongst different options. Learn extra in regards to the fourth cohort of ETIPP communities and their projects.

The most recent ETIPP communities embrace:

Alaska Area

• Galena, Alaska
• Juneau, Alaska
• Kotlik, Alaska
• Native Village of Kotzebue, Alaska
• Native Village of Scammon Bay, Alaska
• Organized Village of Saxman, Alaska

Nice Lakes Area

Gulf Coast Area

Hawaii and Pacific Territories Area

• Kahikinui, Hawaii
• Upcountry Maui, Hawaii
• Waianae, Hawaii

Northeastern Seaboard Area

• Brooklyn, Maine
• Chebeague Island, Maine
• Cranberry Isles, Maine
• Fishers Island, New York
• Passamaquoddy Tribe on the Nice Level Reservation, Maine
• Washington County, Maine

Pacific Northwest Area

• Confederated Tribes of Heat Springs, Oregon
• Nez Perce Tribe, Idaho
• Port Orford, Oregon
• Swinomish Indian Tribal Neighborhood, Washington

Caribbean Territories Area

• The Margarita, Salinas, Puerto Rico
• Black Bull Neighborhood, Ciales, Puerto Rico
• Ponce Seaside, Ponce, Puerto Rico

Southeastern Seaboard Area

For the primary time in this system’s historical past, the fourth cohort of 25 communities will every obtain $50,000 in direct funding to assist capability for engagement on their ETIPP undertaking. One other new function is the introduction of distinct technical help tracks designed to raised assist communities whether or not they’re within the early phases of power planning or becoming a member of ETIPP with an current power plan or well-defined undertaking.

With each tracks, ETIPP communities work with researchers at 4 nationwide laboratories—Lawrence Berkeley Nationwide Laboratory, the Nationwide Renewable Power Laboratory, Pacific Northwest Nationwide Laboratory, and Sandia Nationwide Laboratories—to seek out options tailor-made to native power challenges. As well as, regional companions organizations—together with Groundswell, the Island Institute, the Renewable Power Alaska Challenge, the Southeast Sustainability Administrators Community, and Spark Northwest—construct bridges between native residents and nationwide laboratory specialists by means of deep information of native power ecosystems and cultural nuances.

ETIPP is funded by DOE’s Workplace of Power Effectivity and Renewable Power and administered by the Nationwide Renewable Power Laboratory. Go to the ETIPP website to be taught extra about this system.

It’s also possible to learn a information launch about this on the NREL website.