The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) new Programa de Comunidades Resilientes will fund photo voltaic and battery storage amenities all through Puerto Rico serving low- and moderate-income communities.
From ESS News
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has introduced a $325 million funding alternative with the objective of bettering community-level vitality resilience for susceptible populations all through Puerto Rico.
The new Programa de Comunidades Resilientes, funded by the second tranche of the Puerto Rico Energy Resilience Fund (PR-ERF) of the DOE will present funding for photo voltaic and battery storage installations for neighborhood healthcare amenities in addition to neighborhood facilities and different widespread areas inside public housing and privately owned backed multi-family properties.
“Every municipality in Puerto Rico has a facility that may qualify for set up by means of the Programa de Comunidades Resilientes,” mentioned Maria Robinson, Director of the DOE’s Grid Deployment Office. “This program will probably be an necessary device in bettering community-level resiliency, making certain that emergency rooms stay staffed, residents of multifamily housing can hold medication and meals refrigerated, and important service will stay accessible throughout outages in low- and middle-income communities.”
The DOE expects to supply between $70 million and $140 million to fund photo voltaic and battery installations for federally certified healthcare facilities, dialysis facilities, and diagnostic and therapy facilities.
Between $93 million and $185 million is anticipated to go towards photo voltaic and battery installations on multi-family housing properties, supported by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and the US Department of Agriculture. This consists of neighborhood facilities and customary areas inside public housing or privately owned multi-family housing properties which are accessible to all residents or shared constructing infrastructure that depends upon electrical energy, akin to elevators.
Applications to this funding alternative are due October 22, 2024, at 5:00 PM EST. Potential candidates can entry a web based Teaming Partner List to specific their curiosity to different candidates and discover potential partnerships.
After devastating hurricanes and a long time of underinvestment within the island’s electrical grid, the US authorities launched a $1 billion funding bundle referred to as PR-ERF to assist residential photo voltaic and storage initiatives in Puerto Rico. In July of this yr, the DOE introduced their first installations of backed residential photo voltaic and battery storage programs by means of the PR-ERF’s Programa Acceso Solar.
Puerto Rico’s distributed photo voltaic capability reached 842 MW in April of this yr, whereas residential storage reached 1.6 GWh. Consultancy Wood Mackenzie initiatives that within the subsequent ten years greater than 90% of the photo voltaic addition in Puerto Rico will probably be distributed photo voltaic.
Puerto Rico’s Act 17 requires attaining an formidable 40% renewable era by 2025, adopted by 60% by 2040 and 100% by 2050.
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