US Department of Energy allocates $2.3 billion for rural energy resiliency across 39 projects in 21 states.

The US Department of Energy and Rural Affairs (USPACE) has awarded US$2.3 billion for rural energy resiliency across 39 projects in 21 states. The remaining $2.2 billion comes from the Electric Infrastructure programme, which focuses on investment in transmission and distribution (T&D) projects. Of the five winning PACE projects, three are solar-only, one involves solar and storage, and one is energy storage only. The latter is a US$83.5 million initiative by the Trico Electric Cooperative Inc. in Arizona to expand its battery energy storage system (BESS) capacity. The funding programmes are part of the US$369 billion US Inflation Reduction Act, which includes direct grant funding such as PACE and tax-based incentives for upstream and downstream clean energy to increase funding for the green energy transition.