The competition engages students across disciplines—engineering, finance, urban planning, sustainability, communications, and more—to reimagine how energy is generated, managed, and used in a district. For the Class of 2023–2024, students will have access to an enhanced training platform to support innovation and learning. Student teams will also have two options for their district use cases: (1) assignment to a district use case defined by competition organizers, or (2) a bring-your-own-district division in which students may self-select their district use case, collecting and using the district’s available data on their own, with data synthesis support from competition organizers. All student teams choosing to bring their own district will compete in a division against other teams bringing their own districts. Additionally, the Solar District Cup Class of 2023–2024 will open a division for one-semester or two-quarter participation in the winter/spring.

Through the Solar Ambassador Prize, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will award a total of $3.5 million to up to 20 community organizations to help accelerate the installation of residential solar and battery storage systems on an estimated 30,000 – 40,000 homes across Puerto Rico. Solar Ambassadors will initially receive $15,000 in seed funding and will be eligible for compensation based on the number of households enrolled for residential solar and battery storage home inspections. Community-based organizations, nonprofits, and for-profit entities with an existing presence in Puerto Rico are eligible to apply to become Solar Ambassadors.

This Puerto Rico Energy Resilience Fund (PR-ERF) FOA provides up to $450 million to support residential solar PV and battery storage installations and offer consumer protection and education resources. Potential applicants may include private industry, educational institutions, state and local governmental entities, non-profit organizations, and energy cooperatives. Through this deployment-focused funding, DOE aims to incentivize the installation of roughly 30,000–40,000 residential solar and battery systems. Qualified beneficiaries of the systems installed by selected partners will include very low-income, single-family households that are either located in areas that have a high percentage of very low-income households and experience frequent and prolonged power outages or contain a family member with an energy-dependent disability, such as individuals who need electric wheelchairs for mobility or those that use at-home dialysis machines.

The Mission of the Southeast New England Program Opportunity to Advance Resilience (SOAR) Fund is to improve and support the resilience of disadvantaged communities throughout the SNEP region with meaningful community involvement as it relates to the design and implementation of projects to address the anticipated effects of climate change and the historic, longterm impacts of environmental and social injustices. Through this initiative, SNEP plans to fund a host of planning, implementation, outreach, training, capacity, and staff-building projects that correspond with the goals, objectives and priorities outlined in SNEP’s Five-Year Strategic Plan.

Through this opportunity, WPTO aims to identify promising, potentially high-impact research ideas from minority-serving colleges and universities, especially new entrants or those who have not recently worked with the WPTO. Eligible researchers could have a wide range of expertise, including water power-related engineering and other technology-specific  expertise , but also expertise in social science,  biological and environmental sciences, local governance processes, energy system integration, community-scale power systems, and other related areas. Researchers whose work has robust and deep ties to their communities and will be able to leverage those ties in their projects are particularly encouraged to apply.

The Region 1 EJ TCTAC will provide technical assistance, training, and other eligible forms of assistance, resources, and support to program participants throughout EPA Region 1 (Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and 10 federally recognized Tribes). The Region 1 EJ TCTAC will serve as a resource for program participants in Region 1 interested in participating in environmental and energy justice programs and policy development and understanding and utilizing environmental and energy grant programs to advance environmental and energy justice.

The program provides funding for students and early career (untenured) faculty to support nuclear science, engineering, technology, and related disciplines. The objective is to develop a workforce capable of supporting the design, construction, operation, and regulation of nuclear facilities as well as the safe handling of nuclear materials. Proposals will be considered under this announcement for projects that would foster the development of innovative community engagement strategies, including incorporation of principles of equity and environmental justice.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Office of Small Business and Civil Rights (SBCR) is funding Minority Serving Institutions’(MSI) programs and activities for the exchange and transfer of knowledge and skills relevant to nuclear safety, security, environmental protection, or any other fields the Commission deems critical to its mission. The MSIG objectives are to assist MSIs in their efforts to achieve academic excellence; build capability, capacity, and infrastructure; develop human capital; and to create a diverse skilled Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) pipeline of underrepresented groups in fields related to the nuclear and/or STEM-related industry.

Of particular interest are areas of study aimed at:
• Engineering disciplines: nuclear, mechanical, chemical, structural, electrical,
environmental, materials, software, and human factors.
• Information Technology disciplines: communications specialists, computer specialists,
IT project managers, systems administrators, computer systems analysts, webmasters,
and information management specialists
• Mathematic disciplines: budget analysts, auditors, accountants
• Scientific disciplines: chemists, nuclear physicists, radiation biologists, physical
scientists, materials scientists, health physicists, geologists, hydrologists, and
seismologists

This funding opportunity solicits applications that support the EPA Sustainable Materials Management Program, for the benefit of States or communities within EPA Region 2 (New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and eight Indian Nations).  Specifically, this grant addresses the following programmatic priorities: Sustainable Management of Food, and Sustainable Packaging.

EPA Region 2 is soliciting applications which address one or both of the two above-noted goals of our SMM program. Fundable projects must involve research, investigations, experiments, trainings, demonstrations, surveys, public education programs and/or studies that address strategies to reduce food and/or packaging waste, primarily through source reduction.

The Carbon Utilization Procurement Grants program will help offset 50% of the costs to states, local governments, and public utilities or agencies to procure and use products developed through the conversion of captured carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide emissions. The commercial or industrial products to be procured and used under these grants must demonstrate a significant net reduction in greenhouse gas emissions compared to incumbent products via a life cycle analysis (LCA). The LCAs are checked for conformance and approved by DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL).

The Energy Future Grants (EFG) provides $27 million in financial and technical assistance to support local, state, and tribal government-led partnership efforts that will advance clean energy program innovation by developing and implementing plans that break new ground in three topic areas: 1) transportation; 2)
power sector; and 3) buildings.

EFG will provide support for at least 50 multijurisdictional teams. Teams will further partner with community benefit organizations to turn innovative ideas into solutions that address barriers to clean energy deployment. EFG solutions will provide measurable benefits to communities and support Justice 40, which directs 40% of the overall benefits of certain federal investments to flow to disadvantaged communities.