Colorado Advanced Power Grid Monitoring Grant Program
Funding Overview:
Type: Grant
For: All Colorado Utilities
Amount: Maximum $500,000 per applicant; $1,967,669 total funding available for the 2024 funding year.
Match: One-third match required for smaller utilities (less than 4 million MWh sold in 2022); 100% cost match (or 50% cost share) for larger utilities (more than 4 million MWh sold in 2022)
Application: Open until November 15, 2024
Colorado Advanced Power Grid Monitoring Grants are available to help electric utilities fund critical grid monitoring and resilience projects. The Colorado Energy Office (CEO) will prioritize funding based on demonstrated need, project impact, project readiness, and labor impact. These resilience projects will facilitate monitoring and/or modeling of a variety of impacts, including wildfires and extreme weather, on different portions of the grid. This funding comes from part of Colorado’s appropriation of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation (BIL) (2021) 40101(d) Grid Resiliency funding.
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Contact information:
gridresiliency@state.co.us
Eligible Applicants
All Colorado electric utilities are eligible to apply for this electrical grid monitoring grant.
Eligible Projects
Eligible projects for grant funding include:
- Power grid monitoring systems, tools, and related technologies for fire monitoring and prevention
- Advanced Vegetation and fuel-load management using LiDAR, satellites, AI, or other information technology
- Distribution pole sensors
- Smart meters (advanced metering infrastructure, or AMI)
- Grid modeling
How It Works
Colorado's Advanced Grid Monitoring Grant
The application period for the 2024 funding round is now open. Please email completed applications to gridresiliency@state.co.us no later than 4:30 PM MT on November 15, 2024.
More information about eligibility, award amounts, and more is available in the Request for Applications document below.
View Request for Applications (RFA) document
View supplemental Application documents
CEO and DOLA presented an informational webinar about the third year of grid resilience funding on August 28, 2024.
Watch the Webinar Recording
Presentation slides are available in the description of the Youtube video linked above.
Download and Review the Application (RFA Document)
Prepare and submit all required documentation
Colorado Energy Office, DOLA Colorado Resiliency Office, and DORA staff will review and score applications in accordance with scoring criteria
CEO will make final project award decisions and inform all applicants of their award or non-award status.
The U.S. Department of Energy will review the application for federal compliance. This may take 6 months or longer. No work may begin until after award and DOE approval.
Awarded applicants must enter a formal grant agreement with CEO to receive funds.
CEO will issue payment as reimbursements. Work performed before formally executing a grant agreement is not eligible for reimbursement.
