Department of Energy · Energy · Disaster Resilience
Energy Improvement in Rural or Remote Areas
Funds energy resilience, reliability, and clean energy projects in communities of fewer than 10,000 people. Eligible projects include microgrids, demand response, renewable energy, and grid modernization.
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
- $1M – $100M
- Non-federal match
- 50% (verify basis)
- Eligible entity
- U.S. cities & local governments
- Application window
- Periodic NOFOs.
- Typical prep time
- 12–20 weeks
- Statutory authority
- IIJA §40103(c) (42 U.S.C. §17314)
Who is eligible for Energy Improvement in Rural or Remote Areas?
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.
- Rural eligibility: population under 50,000 (USDA threshold).
- Population ceiling: no more than 10,000.
Administered by Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations. 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
- Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships (GRIP) (DOE)$5M – $250M
Award ranges, match percentages, and windows are approximate.