Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Solar and Wind Grid Services and Reliability Demonstration

The summary for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Solar and Wind Grid Services and Reliability Demonstration grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the Golden Field Office, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Solar and Wind Grid Services and Reliability Demonstration: This Modification (000002) includes:- Extended the Concept Paper Submission Deadline from 9/1/2022 to 9/15/2022. This action extends all other following deadlines.Modification 000001 includes:- A broken link that was fixed in Section I.A.vi - Teaming Partner List. Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Solar and Wind Grid Services and Reliability DemonstrationThe Systems Integration Solar and Wind Grid Services and Reliability Demonstration FOA will provide funding to demonstrate the capability of large-scale solar and wind plants to provide grid services to the bulk power grid as well as improving grid reliability.Topic 1: Wind and Solar Grid Services Design, Implementation, and DemonstrationThis topic area supports full-scale demonstration projects that seamlessly integrate renewable generation with other large-scale or aggregated distributed energy resource (DER) technologies to provide ancillary (grid) services and improve reliability.Topic 2: Protection of Bulk Power Systems with High Contribution from Inverter-Based ResourcesThe goal of this topic area is to develop a better understanding of how protection systems will operate under very-high IBR scenarios through advancements in modeling and simulation capabilities and to develop and validate strategies and new technologies that can maintain system protection at any level of IBR penetration and improve reliability.Please find the full FOA at https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/