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U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Montana Department of Health and Human Services (DPHHS) [DPHHS] Weatherization Assistance Program Helps participants to improve the heating efficiency of their homes and reduce their energy consumption. Income-qualifications required for participation.
Includes an energy audit to determine the most cost-effective weatherization measures for your home, including a furnace tune-up, caulking, client education, insulation, weather-stripping, storm windows, replacement of broken glass, or repair of exterior doors.
For more information, visit: Montana DPHHS Weatherization Assistance Program [DOE] Energy Efficient Transformer Rebates (Multi-family only) Provides rebates to industrial or manufacturing facility owners, commercial building owners, multifamily building owners, utilities, or energy service companies for the replacement of a qualified energy inefficient transformer with a qualified energy efficient transformer.
Funding amount: $10,000,000 For more information, visit: DOE Energy Efficient Transformer Rebate Program Commercial Small Business [USDA] Rural Energy for America Program – Underutilized Renewable Energy Technologies [NEW PROGRAM] Funding for underutilized technologies and technical assistance in the Rural Energy for America Program.
Funds are anticipated to support renewable energy and energy-efficiency projects for more than 41,500 farms and small businesses.
Funding amount: $303 million For more information, visit: USDA Inflation Reduction Act Programs Page - In Development [USDA] Rural Energy for America Program - Renewable Energy Systems & Energy Efficiency Improvement Guaranteed Loans & Grants [EXISTING PROGRAM] Additional funding for Rural Energy for America Program Renewable Energy Systems and Energy Efficiency Improvement Guaranteed Loans and Grants in Montana program.
Provides guaranteed loan financing and grant funding to agricultural producers and rural small businesses for renewable energy systems or to make energy efficiency improvements. Agricultural producers may also apply for new energy efficient equipment and new system loans for agricultural production and processing.
For more information, visit: USDA Rural Energy for America Program - Renewable Energy Systems & Energy Efficiency Improvement Guaranteed Loans & Grants [DOE] Energy Efficient Transformer Rebates Provides rebates to industrial or manufacturing facility owners, commercial building owners, multifamily building owners, utilities, or energy service companies for the replacement of a qualified energy inefficient transformer with a qualified energy efficient transformer.
Funding amount: $10,000,000 For more information, visit: DOE Energy Efficient Transformer Rebate Program [DOE] Smart Grid Investment Program Smart Grid Grants are designed to increase the flexibility, efficiency, and reliability of the electric power system, with particular focus on: Increasing capacity of the transmission system. Preventing faults that may lead to wildfires or other system disturbances.
Integrating renewable energy at the transmission and distribution levels. Facilitating the integration of increasing electrified vehicles, buildings, and other grid-edge devices. Smart grid technologies funded and deployed at scale through this program must demonstrate a pathway to wider market adoption.
Funding amount: $3 billion ($600 million/year for Fiscal Years 2022-2026) For more information, visit: DOE Smart Grid Investment Program Local and Tribal Governments [DOE] Energy Improvement in Rural & Remote Areas Provide financial assistance to improve the resilience, safety, reliability, and availability of energy and environmental protection from adverse impacts of energy generation in rural or remote areas of the United States.
Funding amount: $1 billion ($200,000,000 appropriated annually from 2022 – 2026) For more information, visit: DOE Energy Improvement in Rural & Remote Areas Program [USDA] Rural Energy for America Program - Energy Audit & Renewable Energy Development Assistance Grants in Montana [EXISTING PROGRAM] Assists rural small businesses and agricultural producers by conducting and promoting energy audits and providing Renewable Energy Development Assistance.
Funds may be used for energy audits, renewable energy technical assistance, and renewable energy site assessments. For more information, visit: USDA Rural Energy for America Program - Energy Audit & Renewable Energy Development Assistance Grants in Montana Program [USDA] Additional Funding for Electric Loans for Renewable Energy Funding for Rural Utilities Service (RUS) loans for renewable energy infrastructure.
The Act requires the agency to forgive up to 50% of the loan amount. Eligible entities include electric service providers, including municipals, cooperatives, investor-owned and Tribal utilities. Funding amount: up to $1 billion For more information, visit: https://www.
rd. usda. gov/inflation-reduction-act [USDOT] Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Grants Awaiting U.S. Department of Transportation guidance Competitive grant program to strategically deploy publicly accessible electric vehicle charging infrastructure and other alternative fueling infrastructure along designated alternative fuel corridors.
At least 50 percent of this funding must be used for a community grant program where priority is given to projects that expand access to EV charging and alternative fueling infrastructure within rural areas, low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, and communities with a low ratio of private parking spaces.
For more information, visit: USDOT Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Grants - In Development [EPA] Clean School Bus Program With funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, EPA’s new Clean School Bus Program provides funding over the next five years (FY 2022-2026) to replace existing school buses with zero-emission and low-emission models.
Funding amount: $5 billion For more information, visit: EPA Clean School Bus Program [DOE] Energy Storage Demonstration and Pilot Grant Program Grants to carry out demonstration projects for pilot energy storage systems.
For more information, visit: DOE Energy Storage Demonstration and Pilot Grant Program [DOE] Smart Grid Investment Program Smart Grid Grants are designed to increase the flexibility, efficiency, and reliability of the electric power system, with particular focus on: Increasing capacity of the transmission system. Preventing faults that may lead to wildfires or other system disturbances.
Integrating renewable energy at the transmission and distribution levels. Facilitating the integration of increasing electrified vehicles, buildings, and other grid-edge devices. Smart grid technologies funded and deployed at scale through this program must demonstrate a pathway to wider market adoption.
Funding amount: $3 billion ($600 million/year for Fiscal Years 2022-2026) For more information, visit: DOE Smart Grid Investment Program [DOE] Grid Innovation Program Support projects that use innovative approaches to transmission, storage, and distribution infrastructure to enhance grid resilience and reliability.
Projects selected under this program will include interregional transmission projects, investments that accelerate interconnection of clean energy generation, and utilization of distribution grid assets to provide backup power and reduce transmission requirements. Innovative approaches can range from use of advanced technologies to innovative partnerships to the deployment of projects identified by innovative planning processes.
Funding amount: $5 billion for FY 2022 – 2026 For more information, visit: DOE Grid Innovation Program [DOE] Funding to Facilitate Transmission Siting Supports states and local communities in the siting and permitting of interstate and offshore electricity transmission lines.
Funding amount: $760,000,000 For more information, visit: DOE Funding to Facilitate Transmission Sitting Program [DOE] Energy Improvement in Rural & Remote Areas Provide financial assistance to improve the resilience, safety, reliability, and availability of energy and environmental protection from adverse impacts of energy generation in rural or remote areas of the United States Funding amount: $1 billion ($200,000,000 appropriated annually from 2022 – 2026) For more information, visit: DOE Energy Improvement in Rural & Remote Areas Program [USDA] Rural Energy for America Program - Energy Audit & Renewable Energy Development Assistance Grants in Montana [EXISTING PROGRAM] Assists rural small businesses and agricultural producers by conducting and promoting energy audits and providing Renewable Energy Development Assistance.
Funds may be used for energy audits, renewable energy technical assistance, and renewable energy site assessments. For more information, visit: USDA Rural Energy for America Program - Energy Audit & Renewable Energy Development Assistance Grants in Montana Program [DOE] Energy Storage Demonstration and Pilot Grant Program Grants to carry out demonstration projects for pilot energy storage systems.
For more information, visit: DOE Energy Storage Demonstration and Pilot Grant Program [EPA] Clean School Bus Program With funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, EPA’s new Clean School Bus Program provides funding over the next five years (FY 2022-2026) to replace existing school buses with zero-emission and low-emission models.
Funding amount: $5 billion For more information, visit: EPA Clean School Bus Program [DOE] Smart Grid Investment Program Smart Grid Grants are designed to increase the flexibility, efficiency, and reliability of the electric power system, with particular focus on: Increasing capacity of the transmission system. Preventing faults that may lead to wildfires or other system disturbances.
Integrating renewable energy at the transmission and distribution levels. Facilitating the integration of increasing electrified vehicles, buildings, and other grid-edge devices. Smart grid technologies funded and deployed at scale through this program must demonstrate a pathway to wider market adoption.
Funding amount: $3 billion ($600 million/year for Fiscal Years 2022-2026) For more information, visit: DOE Smart Grid Investment Program Utilities, Electric Cooperatives, Project Developers Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Power Generation, and Storage [DOE] Energy Improvement in Rural & Remote Areas Provide financial assistance to improve the resilience, safety, reliability, and availability of energy and environmental protection from adverse impacts of energy generation in rural or remote areas of the United States.
Funding amount: $1 billion ($200,000,000 appropriated annually from 2022 – 2026) For more information, visit: DOE Energy Improvement in Rural & Remote Areas Program [DOE] Energy Infrastructure Reinvestment Financing Loans to projects that retool, repower, repurpose, or replace energy infrastructure that has ceased operations, or enable operating energy infrastructure to avoid, reduce, utilize, or sequester air pollutants or anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases.
Appropriates funding through September 30, 2026, to carry out energy infrastructure reinvestment Funding amount: $5 billion with a total cap on loans of up to $250 billion For more information, visit: DOE Energy Infrastructure Reinvestment Financing Program [USDA] USDA Assistance for Rural Electric Cooperatives Funding for Rural Utility Services to offer loans, grants, loan modifications and other financial assistance to support the purchase of renewable energy systems, zero-emission systems, and carbon capture systems.
Funding also may be used to deploy these systems or to make energy-efficiency improvements to generation and transmission systems of eligible entities. Funding amount: $9.
7 billion For more information, visit: USDA Inflation Reduction Act Programs Page - In Development [USDA] Rural Energy for America Program - Renewable Energy Systems & Energy Efficiency Improvement Guaranteed Loans & Grants [EXISTING PROGRAM] Additional funding for Rural Energy for America Program Renewable Energy Systems and Energy Efficiency Improvement Guaranteed Loans and Grants in Montana program.
Provides guaranteed loan financing and grant funding to agricultural producers and rural small businesses for renewable energy systems or to make energy efficiency improvements. Agricultural producers may also apply for new energy efficient equipment and new system loans for agricultural production and processing.
For more information, visit: USDA Rural Energy for America Program - Renewable Energy Systems & Energy Efficiency Improvement Guaranteed Loans & Grants [USDA] Rural Energy for America Program - Energy Audit & Renewable Energy Development Assistance Grants in Montana [EXISTING PROGRAM] Assists rural small businesses and agricultural producers by conducting and promoting energy audits and providing Renewable Energy Development Assistance.
Funds may be used for energy audits, renewable energy technical assistance, and renewable energy site assessments. For more information, visit: USDA Rural Energy for America Program - Energy Audit & Renewable Energy Development Assistance Grants in Montana [DOE] Energy Storage Demonstration and Pilot Grant Program Grants to carry out demonstration projects for pilot energy storage systems.
For more information, visit: DOE Energy Storage Demonstration and Pilot Grant Program [DOE] Transmission Facilitation Program Revolving loan fund for transmission projects allowing the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to serve as an “anchor tenant” for a new transmission line or an upgrade of an existing line. DOE shared ownership provides certainty needed by developers to invest in larger, riskier projects. Funding amount: $2.
5 billion For more information, visit: DOE Transmission Facilitation Program Page For more information, visit: DOE Transmission Facilitation Program - Grid Deployment Office [DOE] Smart Grid Investment Program Smart Grid Grants are designed to increase the flexibility, efficiency, and reliability of the electric power system, with particular focus on: Increasing capacity of the transmission system.
Preventing faults that may lead to wildfires or other system disturbances. Integrating renewable energy at the transmission and distribution levels. Facilitating the integration of increasing electrified vehicles, buildings, and other grid-edge devices.
Smart grid technologies funded and deployed at scale through this program must demonstrate a pathway to wider market adoption. Funding amount: $3 billion ($600 million/year for Fiscal Years 2022-2026) For more information, visit: DOE Smart Grid Investment Program [DOE] Grid Resilience Utility and Industry Grants Grants to support the modernization of the electric grid to reduce impacts due to extreme weather and natural disasters.
Funds comprehensive transmission and distribution technology solutions to mitigate multiple hazards across a region or within a community, including wildfires, floods, hurricanes, extreme heat, extreme cold, storms, and any other event that can cause a disruption to the power system. The program will prioritize projects generating the greatest community benefit in reducing the likelihood and consequences of disruptive events.
For more information, visit: DOE Grid Resilience Utility and Industry Grants [DOE] Grid Innovation Program Support projects that use innovative approaches to transmission, storage, and distribution infrastructure to enhance grid resilience and reliability.
Projects selected under this program will include interregional transmission projects, investments that accelerate interconnection of clean energy generation, and utilization of distribution grid assets to provide backup power and reduce transmission requirements. Innovative approaches can range from use of advanced technologies to innovative partnerships to the deployment of projects identified by innovative planning processes.
Funding amount: $5 billion for FY 2022 – 2026 For more information, visit: DOE Grid Innovation Program [DOE] Energy Efficient Transformer Rebates Provides rebates to industrial or manufacturing facility owners, commercial building owners, multifamily building owners, utilities, or energy service companies for the replacement of a qualified energy inefficient transformer with a qualified energy efficient transformer.
Funding amount: $10 million For more information, visit: DOE Energy Efficient Transformer Rebates Program [DOE] Energy Improvement in Rural & Remote Areas Provide financial assistance to improve the resilience, safety, reliability, and availability of energy and environmental protection from adverse impacts of energy generation in rural or remote areas of the United States Funding amount: $1 billion ($200,000,000 appropriated annually from 2022 – 2026) For more information, visit: DOE Energy Improvement in Rural & Remote Areas [USDA] USDA Assistance for Rural Electric Cooperatives Funding for Rural Utility Services to offer loans, grants, loan modifications and other financial assistance to support the purchase of renewable energy systems, zero-emission systems, and carbon capture systems.
Funding also may be used to deploy these systems or to make energy-efficiency improvements to generation and transmission systems of eligible entities. Funding amount: $9. 7 billion For more information, visit: USDA Inflation Reduction Act Programs Page - In Development [DOE] Transmission Facility Financing Loans Direct loans for construction and modification of transmission lines or other transmission facilities.
The loans are only available for projects in “National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors. ” U.S. Department of Energy has not yet designated these corridors, which will have to meet criteria like promoting energy security, reducing electricity costs for customers, diversifying electricity supply, or meeting national energy policy interests.
Link to be added when available [DOE] Energy Improvement in Rural & Remote Areas Provide financial assistance to improve the resilience, safety, reliability, and availability of energy and environmental protection from adverse impacts of energy generation in rural or remote areas of the United States.
Funding amount: $1 billion ($200,000,000 appropriated annually from 2022 – 2026) For more information, visit: DOE Energy Improvement in Rural & Remote Areas Program [DOE] Rural and Municipal Utility Advances Cybersecurity Grant and Technical Assistance Program Provide grants and technical assistance to, and enter into cooperative agreements with, eligible entities to protect against, detect, respond to, and recover from cybersecurity threats.
Funding amount: $250 million For more information, visit: DOE Rural and Municipal Utility Advances Cybersecurity Grant and Technical Assistance Program Electric Vehicles, Charging, and Fueling Infrastructure [USDOT] Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Grants Awaiting U. S.
Department of Transportation guidance Competitive grant program to strategically deploy publicly accessible electric vehicle charging infrastructure and other alternative fueling infrastructure along designated alternative fuel corridors.
At least 50 percent of this funding must be used for a community grant program where priority is given to projects that expand access to EV charging and alternative fueling infrastructure within rural areas, low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, and communities with a low ratio of private parking spaces.
For more information, visit: USDOT Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Grants - In Development 2401 Colonial Dr. | Helena, MT 59601 Request Public Information Nondiscrimination and ADA
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EPA is seeking insightful, expert, and cost-effective applications from eligible applicants to provide the Chesapeake Bay Program’s non-federal partners with technical analysis and programmatic evaluation support related to water quality modeling and monitoring and spatial systems to manage, analyze, and map environmental data. The project assists the partners in meeting their restoration and protection goals and in increasing the transfer of scientific understanding to the Chesapeake Bay Program modeling, monitoring, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) activities. The recipient will support modeling, monitoring, and GIS programs needed to explain and communicate the health of and changes in the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. Funding Opportunity Number: EPA-R3-CBP-23-18. Assistance Listing: 66.466. Funding Instrument: CA. Category: ENV. Award Amount: Up to $5.3M per award.
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I is sponsored by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA SBIR Phase I Solicitation invites small businesses to submit proposals for projects addressing critical environmental challenges. Awards are for six months to demonstrate proof of concept. Key focus areas include Clean and Safe Water, Air Quality and Climate, Homeland Security, Circular Economy/Sustainable Materials, and Safer Chemicals.
Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants Program (CCGP) is sponsored by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The Community Change Grants Program funds projects that provide meaningful improvements to the environmental, climate, and resilience conditions affecting disadvantaged communities. While broadly focused on environmental and climate justice, projects can include aspects that relate to community health and well-being through addressing environmental health risks. The program aims to fund community-driven pollution and climate resiliency solutions and strengthen communities' decision-making power. Applications are accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis.