美国计划投资105亿美元提高电网恢复力和可靠性

据美国钻井网站2022年9月1日星期四报道，美国能源部（DOE）正在为105亿美元的电网恢复力和创新伙伴计划寻求投入，以提高美国电网的恢复力和可靠性。

美国能源部时下正在向各州、部落、社区、公用事业公司、项目开发商和其他主要利益相关方寻求信息，以帮助完善将于今年晚些时候公布的融资机会公告，并指导在5年内实施资金，以加强美国电网，支持《两党基础设施法》。

这些项目将加快变革性项目的部署，帮助确保电力部门基础设施的可靠性，使所有美国社区都能随时随地获得负担得起的、可靠的、清洁的电力，同时帮助实现到2035年前实现100%清洁电力的目标。 

美国能源部部长说：“美国能源部正在迅速升级国家电网，以便为美国家庭提供更可靠的、更廉价的电力，这些电力来自更多样化的清洁能源。”“《两党基础设施法》将投资改善和扩大全国范围内的电力传输和分配系统，降低能源成本，创造高薪工作岗位。”

《两党基础设施法》包括一项历史性的投资，用于升级美国输电和配电系统，以提高电网的可靠性和恢复力，并促进在全国范围内部署清洁能源。今天的公告代表了实现能源部在《建设更好的电网倡议》中提出的协调电网战略的关键一步，该战略旨在升级国家电网基础设施，将更多社区连接到更廉价、更清洁的电力，确保电网能够承受极端天气，并满足各部门不断扩大的电力需求。

其中第一个项目是电网恢复力拨款，将提供25亿美元的资金。它将支持使电网现代化的活动，以减少极端天气和自然灾害的影响。这个项目将为全面的输电和配电技术解决方案提供资金，这些解决方案将减轻一个地区或一个社区内的多重危害，包括野火、洪水、飓风、极热、极冷、风暴和任何其他可能导致电力系统中断的事件。这个项目向电网运营商、电力储存运营商、发电商、输电业主或运营商、配电供应商和燃料供应商提供资金。 

价值30亿美元的智能电网拨款将提高电力系统的灵活性、效率和可靠性，特别侧重于增加输电系统的容量，防止可能导致野火或其他系统干扰的故障，在输电和配电层面整合可再生能源，并促进越来越多的电动汽车、建筑和其他电网边缘设备的集成。根据这个计划，大规模投资和部署的智能电网技术将为更广泛的市场采用提供途径。这个资助项目具有广泛的适用范围，面向国内实体，包括高等教育机构，盈利性实体，非营利性实体， 州和地方政府实体，以及部落民族。 

最后一个是价值50亿美元的电网创新计划。它向一个或多个州、部落、地方政府和公共事业公司提供财政援助，与电力部门所有者和运营商合作，部署使用创新方法的传输、存储和配电基础设施的项目，以提高电网的恢复力和可靠性。我们感兴趣的广泛项目应用包括区域间传输项目、加速清洁能源发电互联的投资、利用配电网络资产提供备用电力和降低传输要求等。创新方法包括使用先进技术、建立创新伙伴关系、部署创新规划过程确定的项目等。  

此外，美国能源部预计不日将发布关于2022财年和2023财年拨款的最终拨款机会公告。 

李峻 编译自 美国钻井网站

原文如下：

USA Investing $10.5B To Strengthen Its Electric Grid

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is seeking input on the $10.5 billion Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnership Program to enhance the resilience and reliability of America’s electric grid.

The DOE is seeking information from states, Tribes, communities, utilities, project developers, and other key stakeholders to help refine the funding opportunity announcement that will be made later this year and to guide the implementation of the funding over five years to enhance the electric grid in support of Infrastructure Law.

These programs will accelerate the deployment of transformative projects that will help to ensure the reliability of the power sector’s infrastructure, so all American communities have access to affordable, reliable, clean electricity anytime, anywhere while helping deliver on the President’s goal of 100% clean electricity by 2035. 

“DOE is moving quickly to upgrade the nation’s power grid in order to provide American households with more reliable and affordable electricity that comes from a more diverse set of clean energy sources,” said U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm. “Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is investing in improving and expanding transmission and distribution systems across the country, driving down energy costs and generating good-paying jobs.”

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law includes a historic investment to upgrade transmission and distribution systems to improve reliability and resilience of the grid and to facilitate the deployment of clean energy across the country. Today’s announcement represents a key step in delivering on DOE’s coordinated grid strategy laid out in the Building a Better Grid Initiative to upgrade the nation’s grid infrastructure, connect more communities to cheaper, cleaner power, ensure the grid can withstand extreme weather, and meet expanding electricity needs across sectors. 

First of these programs is the Grid Resilience Grants which will provide $2.5 billion in funds. It will support activities that will modernize the electric grid to reduce impacts due to extreme weather and natural disasters. This program will fund comprehensive transformational transmission and distribution technology solutions that will mitigate multiple hazards across a region or within a community, including wildfires, floods, hurricanes, extreme heat, extreme cold, storms, and any other event that can cause a disruption to the power system. This program provides grants to electric grid operators, electricity storage operators, electricity generators, transmission owners or operators, distribution providers, and fuel suppliers.

The Smart Grid Grants worth $3 billion will increase the flexibility, efficiency, and reliability of the electric power system, with particular focus on increasing capacity of the transmission system, preventing faults that may lead to wildfires or other system disturbances, integrating renewable energy at the transmission and distribution levels, and facilitating the integration of increasing electrified vehicles, buildings, and other grid-edge devices. Smart grid technologies funded and deployed at scale under this program will demonstrate a pathway to wider market adoption. This grant program has broad eligibility, open to domestic entities including institutions of higher education; for-profit entities; non-profit entities; and state and local governmental entities, and tribal nations.

The last is the Grid Innovation Program worth $5 billion. It provides financial assistance to one or multiple states, Tribes, local governments, and public utility commissions to collaborate with electric sector owners and operators to deploy projects that use innovative approaches to transmission, storage, and distribution infrastructure to enhance grid resilience and reliability. Broad project applications are of interest including interregional transmission projects, investments that accelerate interconnection of clean energy generation, utilization of distribution grid assets to provide backup power and reduce transmission requirements, and more. Innovative approaches can range from use of advanced technologies to innovative partnerships to the deployment of projects identified by innovative planning processes to many others.

Furthermore, the DOE expects to release the final Funding Opportunity Announcement for FY22 and FY23 funding that will solicit concept papers