Concept Paper Due: FY 2023 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Section 41006. Water Power Projects: Innovative Technologies to Enable Low Impact Hydropower and Pumped Storage Hydropower Growth
WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to address innovative solutions to retrofit non-powered dams with environmentally sustainable hydropower at a reasonable cost; applications to address development and testing technologies that mitigate challenges to pumped storage hydropower deployment, including market and revenue uncertainty, development costs and financing, long development timelines, permitting challenges, construction risks, and environmental impacts; and applications to address and encourage emerging organizations to support hydropower development. Click here for more information.
WHO'S ELIGIBLE? State and local governmental entities, and tribal nations; for-profit entities, educational institutions, and nonprofit entities that are organized, chartered or incorporated under the laws of a particular state or territory of the US and have a physical location in the US
WHEN'S IT DUE? December 1, 2022 (Concept Paper); March 5, 2023 (Full Application)