U.S. DOE Expands Assist for Group-Led Clear Power Transitions

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DOE’s Clear Power to Communities (C2C) program helps native governments, electrical utilities, community-based teams, and different decisionmakers notice their clear power targets with revolutionary modeling and testing instruments developed at DOE’s world-class nationwide laboratories.

In the present day, DOE’s Nationwide Renewable Power Laboratory (NREL) launched the first C2C annual report, which highlights greater than 200 communities throughout the US which have benefited from this groundbreaking program. C2C has supported these communities throughout the clear power transition—from foundational steering to particular mission help.  

To construct on this success, DOE additionally introduced new funding, technical help, and peer studying alternatives throughout all three program choices.

C2C In-Depth Partnerships Accepting New Proposals

NREL at the moment launched a Request for Proposals to help 2-4 communities in growing tailor-made, actionable decarbonization methods as a part of C2C in-depth partnerships providing. Groups comprising a neighborhood authorities, electrical utility, and community-based organizations can apply for a multi-year partnership with consultants from DOE’s nationwide laboratories. Lab consultants will assist these groups higher perceive, mannequin, and validate potential clear power deployment methods so the communities they signify could make extra knowledgeable choices. In-depth partnerships concentrate on key challenges that tackle a number of sectors, together with the renewable power, mobility, grid, and buildings sectors.

Awards embody as much as $500,000 in subcontract funding and as much as $3,500,000 within the type of in-depth technical help from a number of nationwide laboratories. Funding can be utilized to help workers, neighborhood engagement actions, and the acquisition of unpolluted power infrastructure or expertise.

Be part of a webinar on April 18 at 1 p.m. ET to be taught extra and apply by June 14.

Previous and ongoing in-depth partnership highlights embody:

• Pilot mission supporting an Alaska utility’s transition from coal to wash power
• Lively In-Depth Partnerships in Chicago, Illinois; Colorado Springs, Colorado; Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania and New Jersey; Moloka‘i, Hawaii; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Sitka, Alaska.

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Webinars

Study extra about C2C alternatives on the following webinars:

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Purposes Now Open for Peer-Studying Cohorts

This week, NREL introduced a brand new spherical of C2C peer-learning cohorts. Ten to fifteen communities will convene repeatedly from July-December 2024 to change methods and greatest practices and be taught from nationwide laboratory consultants on the next matters:

• Designing and Enhancing Power Effectivity Applications for Residential Buildings
• Charting a Path to Municipal Fleet Electrification
• Implementing an Agrivoltaics Venture

Be part of a webinar on April 10 at 1 p.m. ET to be taught extra and apply by April 30.

Previous peer-learning cohorts, in addition to the three ongoing cohorts, have achieved a number of notable successes:

• Prepare dinner County, Illinois, developed an EV-charging technique.
• Little Rock, Arkansas, established a plan to realize 100% clear power for its municipal operations by 2030.
• The San Diego Affiliation of Governments discovered new methods to reinforce neighborhood participation in clear power planning.
• Clear Cities and Communities supplied ongoing help to individuals throughout and between cohort periods.

Purposes Stay Open for Quick Time period Technical Help

C2C’s professional match program offers between 40 and 60 hours of tailor-made technical help to assist native governments, electrical utilities, community-based teams, and others tackle short-term power challenges. Purposes are accepted on a rolling foundation. Apply at the moment!

Previous Professional Match highlights embody:

• Partnering with the Black Farmers Collaborative to discover agrivoltaics on farms in Florida and throughout the Southeast
• Exploring the potential of floating photo voltaic on a municipal reservoir with Cohoes, New York
• Figuring out alternatives for industrial constructing effectivity in Unincorporated Norcross, Georgia
• Figuring out the prices and advantages of assorted methods for reaching net-zero operations in Washtenaw County, Michigan.

C2C is funded by DOE’s Workplace of Power Effectivity and Renewable Power and managed by the Nationwide Renewable Power Laboratory delivered in collaboration with Argonne Nationwide Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley Nationwide Laboratory, Oak Ridge Nationwide Laboratory, and Pacific Northwest Nationwide Laboratory. The World Sources Institute additionally assists with C2C Peer-Studying Cohorts.

Study extra about every alternative at www.nrel.gov/c2c.

Learn the total C2C annual report.

Courtesy of U.S. DOE.