Energy Improvements in Rural or Remote Areas
Funds U.S. rural and remote clean-energy demonstration projects that improve local energy cost, resilience, access, generation, microgrids, or efficiency.
The Energy Improvements in Rural or Remote Areas program is a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations cooperative-agreement funding opportunity under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The FY2025 release, DE-FOA-0003428, offered $400 million in total federal funding for clean-energy projects serving communities of 10,000 people or fewer. DOE expected 20 to 50 cooperative ag…
Clean-energy demonstrations for U.S. rural or remote communities, including energy generation, transmission and distribution improvements, greenhouse-gas reduction, modernized generation, microgrids, and energy efficiency.
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