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DOE’s Clear Power to Communities (C2C) program helps native governments, electrical utilities, community-based teams, and different decisionmakers notice their clear vitality objectives with modern modeling and testing instruments developed at DOE’s world-class nationwide laboratories.
At present, DOE’s Nationwide Renewable Power Laboratory (NREL) launched the first C2C annual report, which highlights greater than 200 communities throughout the USA which have benefited from this groundbreaking program. C2C has supported these communities throughout the clear vitality transition—from foundational steerage to particular challenge help.
To construct on this success, DOE additionally introduced new funding, technical help, and peer studying alternatives throughout all three program choices.
C2C In-Depth Partnerships Accepting New Proposals
NREL at the moment launched a Request for Proposals to help 2-4 communities in creating tailor-made, actionable decarbonization methods as a part of C2C in-depth partnerships providing. Groups comprising an area authorities, electrical utility, and community-based organizations can apply for a multi-year partnership with consultants from DOE’s nationwide laboratories. Lab consultants will assist these groups higher perceive, mannequin, and validate potential clear vitality deployment methods so the communities they characterize could make extra knowledgeable selections. In-depth partnerships deal with key challenges that tackle a number of sectors, together with the renewable vitality, mobility, grid, and buildings sectors.
Awards embody as much as $500,000 in subcontract funding and as much as $3,500,000 within the type of in-depth technical help from a number of nationwide laboratories. Funding can be utilized to help employees, neighborhood engagement actions, and the acquisition of unpolluted vitality infrastructure or expertise.
Be a part of a webinar on April 18 at 1 p.m. ET to study extra and apply by June 14.
Previous and ongoing in-depth partnership highlights embody:
Pilot challenge supporting an Alaska utility’s transition from coal to wash vitality
Energetic In-Depth Partnerships in Chicago, Illinois; Colorado Springs, Colorado; Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania and New Jersey; Moloka‘i, Hawaii; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Sitka, Alaska.
Webinars
Be taught extra about C2C alternatives on the following webinars:
Purposes Now Open for Peer-Studying Cohorts
This week, NREL introduced a brand new spherical of C2C peer-learning cohorts. Ten to fifteen communities will convene repeatedly from July-December 2024 to alternate methods and finest practices and study from nationwide laboratory consultants on the next matters:
Designing and Enhancing Power Effectivity Applications for Residential Buildings
Charting a Path to Municipal Fleet Electrification
Implementing an Agrivoltaics Challenge
Be a part of a webinar on April 10 at 1 p.m. ET to study extra and apply by April 30.
Previous peer-learning cohorts, in addition to the three ongoing cohorts, have achieved a number of notable successes:
Prepare dinner County, Illinois, developed an EV-charging technique.
Little Rock, Arkansas, established a plan to realize 100% clear vitality for its municipal operations by 2030.
The San Diego Affiliation of Governments discovered new methods to reinforce neighborhood participation in clear vitality planning.
Clear Cities and Communities provided ongoing help to individuals throughout and between cohort classes.
Purposes Stay Open for Brief Time period Technical Help
C2C’s skilled match program gives between 40 and 60 hours of tailor-made technical help to assist native governments, electrical utilities, community-based teams, and others tackle short-term vitality challenges. Purposes are accepted on a rolling foundation. Apply at the moment!
Previous Knowledgeable Match highlights embody:
Partnering with the Black Farmers Collaborative to discover agrivoltaics on farms in Florida and throughout the Southeast
Exploring the potential of floating photo voltaic on a municipal reservoir with Cohoes, New York
Figuring out alternatives for industrial constructing effectivity in Unincorporated Norcross, Georgia
Figuring out the prices and advantages of assorted methods for attaining net-zero operations in Washtenaw County, Michigan.
C2C is funded by DOE’s Workplace of Power Effectivity and Renewable Power and managed by the Nationwide Renewable Power Laboratory delivered in collaboration with Argonne Nationwide Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley Nationwide Laboratory, Oak Ridge Nationwide Laboratory, and Pacific Northwest Nationwide Laboratory. The World Assets Institute additionally assists with C2C Peer-Studying Cohorts.
Be taught extra about every alternative at www.nrel.gov/c2c.
Learn the complete C2C annual report.
Courtesy of U.S. DOE.
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