The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy's (EGLE) State Energy Program will host a virtual informational session about the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Preventing Outages and Enhancing the Resilience of the Electric Grid Grants. This program is intended to provide funding to eligible entities to carry out activities that are supplemental to existing hardening efforts, and reduce the risk of power lines causing a wildfire, or reduce the likelihood and consequences of disruptive events.

A minimum of $16,353,094 in funding is expected to be available for the first two years of the project; 50 percent of the funding will be available for large operators, and the other 50 percent will be available for the small operators. All grant agreements require large operators that sell more than 4 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity per year, to provide a minimum 100 percent match of the total requested grant funds. Small operators that sell less than 4 TWh of electricity per year are required provide a minimum of 1/3 the amount of the total requested grant funds.

Join EGLE staff on June 15, 2023, from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., to hear about the timing of the program, proposed funding distributions, objectives, and metrics, as well as the criteria and methods Investor-Owned Utilities anticipate using to grant awards to eligible entities.