Breanne Deppisch is an energy and climate policy reporter at the Washington Examiner. A former national political reporter, she has closely covered campaigns, Congress, and the White House since 2016.
The Biden administration announced nearly $3.5 billion in funding Wednesday to strengthen United States power grids in an effort to boost reliability and avoid capacity shortfalls or blackouts during extreme weather events.
The money will also help bolster grid reliance, including building out interregional transmission that can help the region export available capacity to other parts of the country in the event of a shortage. Speaking to reporters to preview the investment on Wednesday, White House Infrastructure Implementation Coordinator Mitch Landrieu stressed the importance of investing in the U.S. power grid at a time when high-heat events and winter storms have put millions at risk for rolling blackouts or extended outages.
The funds are managed by DOE’s Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships, or GRIP program, which is meant to modernize the U.S. power grid and mitigate the effects of natural disasters and extreme weather events worsened by climate change, according to a description provided by the White House.
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