The New Mexico Vitality, Minerals and Pure Assets Division is now accepting grant applications from public entities that may display how new applied sciences will be harnessed to develop a dependable fashionable electrical grid.
The grant funding comes from the Group Advantages Fund the State Legislature created throughout its 2025 legislative session. The legislature allotted $70 million from the Group Profit Fund to the Grid Modernization Program administered by Vitality, Minerals and Pure Assets Division’s (EMNRD) Vitality Conservation and Administration Division (ECAM).
“This Grid Modernization Grant Fund infusion is a game-changer for New Mexico’s means to search out revolutionary methods of strengthening our electrical grid and constructing long-term resilience for our communities,” stated ECAM Director Rebecca “Puck” Stair. “On the actual time the federal authorities is cancelling grants for tasks designed to enhance vitality infrastructure, New Mexico is leaning in with document state funding for grid mod.”
Grid modernization tasks are anticipated to improve electrical distribution or transmission infrastructure to accommodate integration of renewable electrical energy sources or in any other case make the grid extra environment friendly, dependable and safe and higher in a position to answer anticipated progress in vitality demand.
ECAM is in search of to award grant funds to a few kinds of tasks:
- Initiatives that contain building, set up, operation and verification of functioning fashionable grid expertise at a challenge web site.
- Initiatives consisting of pre-construction or design actions that will finally outcome within the constructing and set up of totally purposeful fashionable grid expertise.
- Authentic analysis tasks that advance the state’s understanding and appreciation of grid operate, reliability, resilience, safety and operation regarding the mixing of renewable and zero-carbon sources, together with impacts on buyer habits, operations and upkeep prices or the worth of particular grid applied sciences.
By legislation, eligible candidates embrace municipalities and county governments; state businesses; public faculties; state universities and different post-secondary schooling establishments; and Native American nations, tribes and pueblos. All tasks should happen inside New Mexico.
Questions regarding this funding alternative must be submitted in writing with “GRID MOD NOFO” within the topic header to Chadette Pfaff.
Purposes will likely be accepted and reviewed on a month-to-month rolling foundation starting Nov. 1, 2025, till all accessible funds are awarded.
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