Biden Administration Announces $2.3 Billion to Strengthen and Modernize America’s Power Grid

The Preventing Outages and Enhancing the Resilience of the Electric Grid formula grant program will provide $459 million annually to States and Tribal nations over an anticipated five-year period to improve the resilience of the electric grid against disruptive events. Grid resilience activities could include:

• Undergrounding electrical equipment
• Relocating or reconductoring powerlines
• Improvements to make the grid resistant to extreme weather
• Increasing fire resistant components
• Implementing monitoring, controls, and advanced modeling for real-time situational awareness
• Integrating distributed energy resources like microgrids and energy storage

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