The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is seeking applications for innovative, advanced, and transformative projects throughout PA that will result in a more resilient and reliable electric grid while promoting the expansion of clean energy generation, workforce benefits, and positive outcomes in rural and urban communities.
Donor Name: Department of Environmental Protection
State: Pennsylvania
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/08/2025
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 5 Years
Details:
The Grid Resilience Grant program is a funding opportunity to implement resilience measures throughout PA intended to mitigate the impact of electric grid disruptive events.
Funding Information
Approximately $8 million is available.
Grant Period
Projects funded will have an initial Period of Performance of five years.
Eligible Projects
- Weatherization technologies and equipment
- Fire resistant technologies and fire prevention systems
- Monitoring and control technologies
- The undergrounding of electrical equipment
- Utility pole management
- The relocation of power lines or the reconductoring of power lines with low sag
- Advanced conductors
- Vegetation and fuel load management
- The use or construction of infrastructure for enhancing system adaptive capacity during disruptive events, including microgrids and battery storage subcomponents
- Note: These projects are only eligible if used exclusively during disruptive events
- Adaptive protection technologies
- Advanced modeling technologies
- Hardening of power lines, facilities, substations, or other systems
- The replacement of old overhead conductors and underground cables.
Who Can Apply?
- an electric grid operator
- an electricity storage operator
- an electricity generator
- a transmission owner or operator
- a distribution provider
- a fuel supplier
- and any other relevant entity, as determined by DEP in consultation with DOE.
For more information, visit DEP.
