Webinar – Georgia Grid Resiliency Grants Program

This webinar will cover Georgia’s Grid Resiliency grant program that is now open for utilities – more information is available at: Grid Resilience Grant Program | Georgia Environmental Finance Authority. The audience for this webinar is electric utilities.

This program is one of the grant programs under Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that is the best fit for small electric cooperatives and municipal utilities. Key elements of this grant opportunity are:

• Small utilities are defined as those which sell less than 4,000,000 MWh per year
• A minimum 39% of funding will be made available to small utilities
• Cost match is 49% of the award for small utilities, which is about $33k for each $100k of award
• The first round is expected to provide ~$24.7M of grants
• A wide variety of grid resiliency activities are eligible under this program
• The application window is now open and closes November 26^th

Speakers include:

• Kelly Cutts, Senior Program Manager, Georgia Environmental Finance Authority (GEFA)
• Annaka Woodruff, GA Appalachian Regional Commission Program Manager
• Keith Dennis, President, Beneficial Electrification League