Department: County Administration
Department Head/Elected Official: Diana Ramirez, County Administrator
Regular or Supplemental RCA: Regular RCA
Type of Request: Grant
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Justification for 0% MWDBE Participation Goal: N/A - Goal not applicable to request
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Request by the Office of County Administration for approval to submit an application to the U.S. Department of Energy for grant funds in the amount of $6,000,000, with a required match of up to $2,571,429, for the Harris County Virtual Power Plant (HCVPP) Program.
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Background and Discussion:
Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (EERE), the purpose of the DOE's Connected Communities 2.0: Innovations to Manage Growing Transportation, Building, and Industrial Loads to the Grid funding opportunity is to validate technology in real world situations and share outcomes in ways that will enable these practices to be replicated by other jurisdictions and to inform technical assistance and stakeholder engagement. This funding opportunity will support research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) at the grid edge - the portion of the electric grid between the feeder and the plug - to evaluate how to right size future electricity infrastructure using various technical measures, which can also improve customer benefits and grid resilience.
Connected Communities 2.0 has three primary goals for the cohort of awarded projects:
1) Demonstrate how smart and coordinated management of EVs and other Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), including the integration of efficiency, smart electrical panels, solar, heat pumps, controls, EV charging, and storage can together provide grid support, reduce system costs, and improve the economics of customer technology adoption, at ...
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