Next round targets 38 projects across 42 states totaling an additional $2 billion in investments.
October 18, 2024 – Earlier today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the next round of Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships (GRIP) Program investments for 38 projects across 42 states totaling an additional $2 billion. These projects are focused on protecting our nations power grid against growing threats of extreme weather and expanding transmission capacity to meet projected load growth.
Learn more about the U.S. DoE GRIP projects.

Made possible through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the investments intend to enhance grid flexibility and improve the resilience of the power system against growing threats of extreme weather and climate change, so all American communities have access to affordable, reliable, clean electricity.
Grid Forward Supports Coalition Through All Hazards Risk Mitigation Project
Grid Forward played an organizing role by bringing together regional stakeholders in multiple submissions, one of which covers four states and is focused on all hazards risk mitigation. Grid Forward and its partners will be proceeding to the next step in the process with this project:
In this project Grid Forward will be serving in an educational and advisory capacity by serving as a catalyst to share the lessons from these projects with the wider industry since so many communities are working to deal with the impact of extreme threats to the grid.
Grid Forward Congratulates Project Winners
A number of organizations in the Grid Forward community were also selected to move ahead with final contract negotiations. These projects will transform the communities where they are deployed and share valuable lessons ahead for the industry.
A number of very promising proposals were not selected to move ahead. The overall demand for these grid resilience and smart grid projects made for an extremely competitive selection process.
Grid Forward encourages DOE to continue working through the distribution of these resources as quickly as possible including finalizing selected contracts.
Learn more about the all of the U.S. DOE GRIP projects on the DOE website.
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