Community-Oriented Resilient Energy (CORE) Subaward Program provides funding opportunities to local governments or community-based non-profit organizations for the development of energy resilience projects.
Donor Name: Virginia Department of Energy
State: Virginia
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/17/2026
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
Funding will be utilized for resilient energy upgrades such as distributed energy resources (DERs) including solar plus storage, mobile resilience solutions, and/or backup generation.
Virginia is committed to assuring that all Virginians have access to affordable, abundant, and reliable energy. This federally funded program will enable Virginia to partner with eligible entities to limit the impact of disruptive outages that adversely impact the communities and critical infrastructure.
Objectives
Proposals should detail which objectives will be met and present metrics that will demonstrate compliance with the requirements of the program.
- Increase Local Energy Resilience
- Advance Local Distributed Energy Deployment
- Build Local Capacity and Community Leadership in Resilience.
Funding Information
- Total amount of funding available: $400,000
- Proposals between $50,000 to $250,000 are allowed.
Grant Period
Period of Performance: 12 months, up to 18 months if justified and approved.
Types of Projects
This grant is open to a wide variety of resilience related projects, including solar plus storage, storage only (to be added to existing solar projects), mobile resilience solutions (such as mobile trailers with energy storage), and back-up generation.
For more information, visit VDE.
