Department of Energy · Energy · Disaster Resilience
Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships (GRIP)
Funds projects that enhance grid resilience and reliability against extreme weather and other threats. Three program areas: Grid Resilience Utility, Smart Grid, and Grid Innovation.
Whether your city can win this comes down to hard rules — population, designation, match capacity. Run your city and our AI checks it against the rules below in about 8 minutes.
Program facts
- Typical award
- $5M – $250M
- Non-federal match
- 50% (verify basis)
- Eligible entity
- U.S. cities & local governments
- Application window
- Annual rounds; concept paper required first.
- Typical prep time
- 12–24 weeks
- Statutory authority
- IIJA §40101, §40103, §40107
Who is eligible for Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships (GRIP)?
These are the hard rules we check against. If one fails, the program is ineligible — the AI never overrides a rule.
- Cities are eligible applicants.
Cities typically partner with utilities or co-ops. Amounts and timing approximate; verify directly with administering agency.
How Strategic Pursuit scores this program
Run a city dossier and our AI cross-checks ACS demographics, 5-year USAspending award history, FEMA disaster history, and CEJST/Justice40 + HUD designations against this program's rules. You get a clear eligibility, strategic, and competitive answer — with the city's own hard evidence ready to anchor the narrative — instead of a generic match badge. And if it's a no-go, you'll know before you spend the month.
The dossier isn't the AI's guesswork — eligibility is decided by the rules, and the numbers come straight from official sources. The answer your reviewer will check line by line.
No credit card. 30-day trial, 3 dossiers, 1 seat.
Related programs
- Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) (EPA)$1M – $500M
- Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) (FEMA)$100K – $25M
- Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) (FEMA)$600K – $50M
- Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) (FEMA)$100K – $30M
- CDBG Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) (HUD)$5M – $500M
- Section 48C Advanced Energy Project Tax Credits (Department of the Treasury / Internal Revenue Service)$1M – $250M
Award ranges, match percentages, and windows are approximate.