CAC: $2+ Billion in DOE Grid Resilience Grants Will Help Ensure Lights Stay On Despite Climate Crisis, Extreme Weather Impacts

This week, the Biden administration and Department of Energy announced $2.2 billion in new Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships (GRIP) program grants to harden the grid in 18 states against climate change impacts and improve its ability to incorporate new cleaner sources of energy. In response, Margie Alt, Director of the Climate Action Campaign, issued the following statement:

“The Biden administration and the U.S. Department of Energy has taken a tremendous step this week to help the nation strengthen the grid against dangerous and disruptive impacts of the climate crisis and the extreme weather the nation is experiencing.   

"Recent heat waves, tornados, hurricanes, wildfires and other extreme weather fueled by climate pollution all threaten to disrupt the grid. That’s why this funding is so important.  It will help communities keep the lights on and also looks to the future by increasing the capacity of the grid to add new, cleaner sources of energy. This is good for grid reliability and our climate, and it will lower costs for consumers, protect public health, improve our infrastructure and create thousands of new good-paying, family sustaining jobs.

“President Biden and DOE Secretary Jennifer Granholm deserve great thanks for continuing to take action on climate and make the nation more resilient in the face of increasing extreme weather. , 

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Climate Action Campaign (CAC) is a vibrant coalition of advocacy organizations working together to drive ambitious, durable federal action to cut carbon pollution, address the climate crisis, advance environmental justice, and accelerate the transition to clean energy. Our goal is to reduce carbon pollution and accelerate the transition to clean energy through policies focused on climate, justice, and jobs and expanding opportunity for all.