Energizing Rural Communities Prize

Submitted by kavery on Fri, 04/28/2023 - 16:43
Type: 
Funding
Organization: 
DOE
Description: 

Deadline passed. Most recent deadline: May 24, 2023. The $15 million Energizing Rural Communities Prize challenges individuals and organizations to develop partnership plans or innovative financing strategies to help rural or remote communities improve their energy systems and advance clean energy demonstration projects. This prize is part of the $1 billion Energy Improvements in Rural or Remote Areas (ERA) Program, created by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED). The ERA Program supports projects that improve the resilience, reliability, safety, availability, and environmental performance of energy systems in rural or remote areas of the U.S. with populations of no more than 10,000 people.

Category: 
BIL, innovation challenge, rural energy, infrastructure
Funding Amount: 
up to $100,000

Geography:

Eligibility: 
private entities (for-profits and nonprofits), non-federal government, entities such as states, counties, tribes, and municipalities, academic institutions, and individuals
Website: 
https://www.herox.com/rural-energy
Contact Information: 
ruralenergyprize@nrel.gov