Eligible Entities
Eligibility for this NOFO is restricted to:
• Indian Tribes (including Alaska Native regional corporations and Village corporations);
• Tribal and intertribal Organizations;
• Tribal Energy Development Organizations; and
• Tribal Colleges and Universities.
For the purposes of this NOFO, an eligible Indian Tribe, band, nation or other organized group or community (including Alaska Native Villages), must be federally recognized as listed in Indian Entities Recognized and Eligible to Receive Services from the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Eligible Activities
Projects under this grant fall under three categories:
Topic Area 1 – Tribal community energy deployment projects
Seeks applications for the development of community-scale Tribal energy resources; deployment of community-scale energy generation, storage and/or delivery assets; energy efficiency measures; equipment to strengthen energy infrastructure and implement resiliency enhancements; improvements to lower or stabilize energy costs; and projects that expand electricity access through the upgrade or addition of energy infrastructure. Applications must be implementation ready, indicating that all necessary pre-development and planning activities have been previously finalized.
Topic Area 2 – Tribal community energy planning, assessment, and feasibility
Focuses on applications to conduct pre-development community-scale energy planning activities. This Topic Area allows for all pre-development activities required to identify opportunities and bring projects from concept to implementation ready. Projects under this Topic Area are intended to result in specific outcomes and outputs (measurable results or end products) for the completion of critical milestones in pre-development work that will lead to installed energy hardware, equipment or infrastructure in Tribal communities like the project examples under Topic Area 1.
Topic Area 3 – Large-scale planning, assessment, and feasibility for Tribal energy projects
Seeks applications to conduct pre-development large-scale energy project planning, assessment, and feasibility activities. Projects should allow for pre-development feasibility activities required to identify opportunities to de-risk and advance project development beyond concept toward being investment ready. Projects under this Topic Area should result in specific outcomes and outputs (measurable results or end-products). The projects under this Topic Area center around commercial development of Tribal energy resources, with the primary benefit of revenue generation and economic development or commercial development of Tribal energy resources.
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