DOE intends to issue Amendment 000010 to DE-FOA-0002736 in February 2025. This grant program is authorized under Section 40101(d) of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). Amendment 000010 to DE-FOA-0002736 will provide access to Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 formula grant allocations.

The BIL is a once-in-a-generation investment in infrastructure, which will grow a more sustainable, resilient, and equitable economy through enhancing U.S. competitiveness, driving the creation of good paying union jobs, and ensuring access to economic, environmental, and other benefits for disadvantaged communities. The BIL appropriates more than $62 billion to DOE to invest in American manufacturing and workers; expand access to energy efficiency; deliver reliable, clean and affordable power to more Americans; and deploy the technologies of tomorrow through clean energy demonstrations.

The forthcoming ALRD Amendment 000010 will support Congressional goals to:

1. demonstrate measurable improvements in energy resilience in the United States and mitigate climate-related risk,
2. invest in modernized grid infrastructure that can enable consumer access to lower-cost energy and accommodate increased electrification, increased penetrations of variable renewable electricity and distributed energy resources, and other evolving system needs over the coming decades, and
3. invest in clean energy and decarbonization solutions to achieve a carbon-free power sector by 2035 and net-zero greenhouse gas emissions economy-wide by 2050, and (4) create good-paying jobs with the free and fair choice to join a union.

The purpose of the forthcoming ALRD Amendment 000010 is to allow for submission of applications for the FY 2025 allocations. The process for requesting a FY 2025 allocation depends on whether the applicant is an existing grant recipient or a new grant applicant:

• Existing Grant Recipients that have already received grants for FY 2022, FY 2023, or FY 2024 of the Program will have 90 days from issuance of the ALRD amendment to request their FY 2025 allocation, in accordance with the terms and Conditions of their current Grant award.
• New Grant Applicants are eligible applicants (as defined in ALRD Amendment 0000010) that did not receive a grant FY 2022, FY 2023, or FY 2024. New Grant Applicants will have 90 days from issuance of the ALRD amendment to submit a grant application for a FY 2025 allocation. Several one-time actions, explained below, must be completed before an application can be submitted, including registration with the System for Award Management (SAM), obtaining a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI), and registering with FedConnect.net.
• Prospective New Grant Applicants are encouraged to address these items as soon as possible, as some may take several weeks to complete. Additional instructions for New Grant Applicants will be provided in the ALRD Amendment 000010.

NOTE: Neither applications nor allocation requests are being accepted at this time.