Colorado Advanced Power Grid Monitoring Grant Program
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Colorado Advanced Power Grid Monitoring Grant Program supports Colorado electric utilities with monitoring, modeling, and resilience technologies to address wildfire, extreme weather, and other grid impacts.
Funder: Colorado Energy Office
Due Dates (Anticipated): October 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Maximum $500,000 per applicant; utility-size-based cost match required
Summary: Supports Colorado electric utilities with grid monitoring, modeling, and resilience technologies addressing wildfire, extreme weather, and other grid impacts.
Key Information: Work cannot begin until award and U.S. Department of Energy approval; payments are reimbursements.
Description
The Colorado Energy Office (CEO) administers this program to help electric utilities fund critical grid monitoring and resilience projects. Projects support monitoring or modeling of wildfire, extreme weather, and other impacts on different portions of the electric grid. Funding comes from Colorado’s appropriation of Grid Resiliency funding under Section 40101(d) of the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation.
Supported work includes fire monitoring and prevention technologies, advanced vegetation and fuel-load management, distribution pole sensors, smart meters, and grid modeling. Vegetation and fuel-load projects may use LiDAR, satellites, drones, artificial intelligence, or other information technology. CEO prioritizes demonstrated need, project impact, project readiness, and labor impact.
