$325 Million to Fund Photo voltaic & Battery Storage for Neighborhood Healthcare Services & Multi-Household Housing Serving Low-and-Average-Earnings Communities in Puerto Rico

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Constructing on DOE’s Programa Acceso Photo voltaic for Single Household Households, New $325 Million Funding Will Enhance Vitality Resilience for Even Extra Susceptible Puerto Rican Communities

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COAMO, PUERTO RICO — Yesterday, the U.S. Division of Vitality (DOE) introduced its intent to subject a $325 million funding alternative for the brand new Programa de Comunidades Resilientes, funded by DOE’s Puerto Rico Vitality Resilience Fund (PR-ERF). This new program goals to enhance community-level power resilience for weak populations throughout Puerto Rico, funding photo voltaic and battery storage installations for group healthcare amenities in addition to group facilities and customary areas inside sponsored multi-family housing properties.

“The Biden-Harris Administration has confirmed its dedication to serving to 1000’s of Puerto Rican households entry reasonably priced photo voltaic and battery storage, however households aren’t the one place you want energy throughout and after an emergency,” stated U.S. Secretary of Vitality Jennifer M. Granholm. “Via the Programa de Comunidades Resilientes, we’re increasing photo voltaic entry to group healthcare amenities and sponsored multifamily housing, serving to convey resilience and security to much more households on the Island.”

Candidates might embody particular person entities or groups based mostly in Puerto Rico that may coordinate the deployment of photo voltaic and battery storage techniques throughout many particular person websites. DOE anticipates that as much as $325 million shall be accessible by the Programa de Comunidades Resilientes for photo voltaic and battery storage techniques throughout two sorts of group infrastructure:

• Neighborhood Healthcare Services: DOE might award between $70 million and $140 million to fund power resilience options for federally certified well being facilities, dialysis facilities, and diagnostic and remedy facilities.
• Multi-Household Housing Properties: DOE might award between $93 million and $185 million to fund power resilience options for group facilities and customary areas inside public or privately owned multi-family housing properties sponsored by the U.S. Division of Housing and City Growth. DOE anticipates funding initiatives for sponsored multifamily housing that energy sure widespread areas accessible to all residents in addition to shared constructing infrastructure that depends upon electrical energy, corresponding to elevators. Moreover, DOE anticipates that group facilities positioned on Puerto Rico public housing properties would even be eligible for installations below the Programa de Comunidades Resilientes.

In December 2022, President Biden signed into legislation $1 billion for the institution of the PR-ERF to drive key investments in renewable and resilient power infrastructure in Puerto Rico. In February 2024, DOE launched the Programa Acceso Photo voltaic by the PR-ERF to attach low-income Puerto Rican households with sponsored residential photo voltaic and battery storage techniques. Residents of Puerto Rico can go to power.gov/solarPR to verify their eligibility and attain out to their native Photo voltaic Ambassador to use.

Learn the total Discover of Intent.

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Courtesy of U.S. DOE.