$65 Million Available for Innovations to Manage Growing Building, Transportation, and Industrial Loads on the Electric Grid. Connected Communities 2.0 is a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) that seeks to validate grid-edge technology innovations in real-world situations and provide new tools for utilities, grid planners and operators, automakers and smart charge management service providers, and the communities they serve.
This FOA has two major topical areas:
- Connected Communities, focused on grid edge technical measures in buildings, industry, and transportation to prepare the electric grid for these new loads, and improve the customer benefits and grid resilience; and
- Smart Charge Management, focused on various unique urban, suburban, and rural use cases to build confidence in it as an effective approach for electric vehicles to provide flexibility and value to the electric grid.
Required concept papers are due Aug. 20, 2024, and full applications are due Oct. 10, 2024.
Join an informational webinar on July 29.