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Energy Department Awards
$1.2 Million in Funding for
Storage Social Equity Initiative
Program Will Help Disadvantaged Communities Meet Energy Goals
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) today announced it has selected four funding recipients from the Energy Storage for Social Equity (ES4SE) Initiative. This phase of funding for the program is approximately $1.2 million. ES4SE is designed to empower disadvantaged communities to consider energy storage technologies as a viable path toward achieving their energy goals.
The following organizations received grants in the initial round of Project Development and Deployment Assistance cost-share funding:
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Native Renewables Inc. has a long history installing off-grid residential photovoltaic plus battery energy storage systems (PV+BESSs) in partnership with the Navajo Nation and Hopi Tribe. This organization will work with a number of households to install PV+BESSs including remote monitoring of the systems.
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Hoʻāhu Energy Cooperative Moloka’i (HECM) is deploying residential islanded solar and battery storage nano-grids to fifteen households in the Moloka’i community. ES4SE will support a BESS, inverter and controls, and remote monitoring equipment, and will consider ways to partner with HECM’s workforce development program.
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Coast Electric Power Association (CEPA) is working with the Hancock County Utility Authority (HCUA) to install a BESS for a wastewater treatment plant and will support small solar farms for three HCUA wastewater treatment plants that will connect to a voltage distribution loop.
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Ayika Solutions Incorporated and Capital to Coast Collaborative partners will deploy a BESS for the Harambee House Resiliency Hub in Savannah, Georgia in conjunction with Creative Solar, who will supply and install the solar PV array for the project.
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