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Colorado Advanced Power Grid Monitoring Grant Program
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.
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
