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$48M Federal Grant to Expand and Strengthen Clean Energy in LA

WASHINGTON, DC   As a delegation of Mayor Karen Bass and members of the Los Angeles City Council continued their visit to the nation’s capital, the U.S. Department of Energy or DOE Oct. 18 announced it will continue to work with the Bass administration to build a greener Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power or LADWP was approved to receive $48 million in federal dollars to enhance LADWP’s grid flexibility, improve the resilience of the power system against growing threats of extreme weather and climate change, and ensure Los Angeles has access to affordable, reliable, clean electricity throughout all areas of the city. The delegation today met with U.S. Department of Energy Under Secretary for Infrastructure David Crane to discuss the new funding and furthering collaboration to protect the environment. 

Established by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the U.S Department of Energy’s grid deployment office is administering a historic $10.5 billion investment via the Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships or GRIP program to enhance grid flexibility, improve the resilience of the power system against growing threats of extreme weather and climate change, and ensure American communities have access to affordable, reliable, clean electricity when and where they need it.

The grant will help LADWP create one platform where distributed energy resources like Electric Vehicles or EVs and EV chargers, energy storage, solar photovoltaic systems or PV, and demand response infrastructure can be controlled, in response to grid needs. Doing so will enable LADWP to quickly rebalance the electrical system after an extreme climate event like wildfires, heatwaves or tropical storms.

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