2023 Funding Opportunity Announcement for Energy Future Grants (EFG) Creating a Community-Led Energy Future

Background
The Energy Future Grants (EFG) provides $27 million in financial assistance to support local, state, and tribal government-led partnership efforts that will advance clean energy program innovation. EFG seeks to enhance energy affordable and access for communities, ensuring the broad benefits of a clean energy economy—including heath, economic development and jobs and emissions reductions—flow to disadvantaged communities.

Grant Details
EFG will provide support for at least 50 multi jurisdictional teams. Teams should be ideally comprised of 3-4 or more state, local, and/or tribal government partners joining together on a planning project. Multi-jurisdictional teams are encouraged to also partner with community benefit organizations, academia, think tanks and/or utilities positioned to turn innovative ideas into solutions that address barriers to clean energy deployment. EFG project can including innovative planning efforts in the power, transportation, and/or building sectors. A successful project will have equitable program innovation and seek to leverage DOE and other resources to speed and scale deployment of best practices by region or nationwide.

Eligibility Requirements
Entities that may apply to this FOA are local governments, states, territories, and tribes. Applicants are encouraged to partner as multijurisdictional teams and with community-based organizations (CBOs), academia, utilities, and/or non-profit entities.

Period of Performance
DOE will award $37 million in funding in two phases. Phase 1 will provide $27 million over 12-18 months in this funding opportunity with around 50 awards of up to $500,000. Phase 2 will provide $10M over 2 years in a future funding opportunity.

Grant Value
$27 million in financial assistance is provided through this grant opportunity.