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Latest revision as of 04:25, 5 December 2024
The Clean Energy to Communities (C2C) program connects local governments, electric utilities, community-based groups, and others with experts from across the DOE national laboratory complex and their customized, cutting-edge analysis.
Through unbiased technical support to communities across the country, C2C accelerates the deployment of clean energy systems that are reflective of local and regional priorities.
Funding
C2C is funded by DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and managed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in collaboration with
- Argonne National Laboratory
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
The World Resources Institute also assists with C2C's peer-learning cohorts.
Goals
Communities lie at the heart of C2C, and DOE recognizes that each community has different needs and interests. C2C fosters community-led innovation with tailored assistance across the renewable power, grid, mobility, and buildings sectors.
Levels of engagement
C2C provides three levels of engagement:
In-depth technical partnerships
Multi-year partnerships that provide cross-sector modeling, analysis, and validation, paired with direct funding to help 4-5* selected teams of local governments, electric utilities, and community-based organizations reach their goals and/or overcome specific challenges.
- Time commitment: Long (3-year partnership)
- Eligible participants: Community teams composed of local governments, community-based organizations, and utilities
- Application cycle: Closed
- Who it is for: Communities interested in sustained support through project design and deployment
- Interaction type: Tailored to individual community
- Project type: Any renewable energy, energy efficiency, or transportation electrification planning project
- Number of communities supported: Nine.*
*The number of additional communities is subject to Congressional appropriations.
Peer-learning cohorts
Small groups of local governments, electric utilities, or community-based organizations that meet regularly for approximately 6 months to learn from each other and lab experts in a collaborative environment to develop program proposals, action plans, strategies, and/or best practices on a pre-determined clean energy topic. Cohorts will include approximately 100* communities total.
- Time commitment: Medium (approximately 6 months)
- Eligible participants: Varies by cohort, but can include city, town, and county governments; Tribes, including Alaska Native Villages, Alaska Native Corporations, and state recognized Tribes; metropolitan and regional planning organizations; electric utilities; and community-based organizations
- Application cycle: Closed. For email updates about upcoming C2C opportunities, complete and submit the sign-up form.
- Who it is for: Communities with interests in specific clean-energy topics
- Interaction type: Peer-learning groups and expert guidance
- Project type: Specific, with evolving topics
- Expected number of communities supported: Approximately 100 per year.*
*Number of communities is subject to Congressional appropriations.
Expert match
Short-term assistance (40-60 hours) with one or more technical experts to help address near-term clean energy questions or challenges for up to 200* communities.
- Time commitment: Short (40–60 total hours)
- Eligible participants: City, town, county, and local governments; Tribes, including Alaska Native Villages, Alaska Native Corporations, and state recognized Tribes; metropolitan and regional planning organizations; community-based organizations; nongovernmental organizations; utilities; universities
- Application cycle: Applications are open and reviewed on a rolling basis
- Who it is for: Communities exploring a local energy challenge but that may lack the capacity to conduct analysis
- Interaction type: Tailored to individual community
- Project type: Any projects relating to renewable energy, energy efficiency, or transportation electrification
- Expected number of communities supported: Approximately 200 per year.*
*Number of communities is subject to Congressional appropriations.
Partnerships
Northeastern Minnesota
Minnesota is the nation's largest producer of the iron ore used for steel production. Iron Range and Duluth-based entities including Ecolibrium3 and Itasca Economic Development Corporation (IEDC), with support from the City of Duluth and utility Minnesota Power, will work with DOE lab experts to assess the feasibility of an eventual green iron plant and affiliated workforce in the region and the associated renewable and hydrogen infrastructure. Additional activities will take place to engage local communities on topics surrounding industrial decarbonization research and opportunities.
Lane County, Oregon
Lane County, Oregon, has experienced wildfires, ice storms, heat waves, flooding, and more, just in the past few years, damaging the electric grid and causing extended customer power outages. Lane County, the Springfield Utility Board, Emerald People's Utility District, and The Center for Rural Livelihoods will work with DOE lab experts to develop distributed renewable energy resources and grid modernization technologies to improve the reliability and resilience of electricity services.
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is among the fastest growing metropolitan areas in the nation, putting strain on its aging energy infrastructure. Nashville Electric Service, the Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson County, Middle-West Tennessee Clean Fuels, and Urban League of Middle Tennessee will receive support to develop an integrated roadmap to achieve the metro-wide goal to reduce carbon emissions 80% by 2050 while increasing resiliency and reliability for residents, and make progress on Tennessee Valley Authority's net-zero carbon reduction targets.
Golden Valley Electric Association
C2C worked with Golden Valley Electric Association in Fairbanks, Alaska, to evaluate and de-risk its transition to clean energy options in a partnership that helped shape the current in-depth partnership offering.
Chicago, IL
The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, Commonwealth Edison, and Respiratory Health Association aim to refine tools and analyses to help reach net-zero transportation emissions by 2050. These improved tools will help the region better understand opportunities and challenges from implementing low-carbon transportation technologies, including passenger and freight travel electrification and energy efficient mobility options, while also assessing cross-sectoral interactions with the grid.
Colorado Springs, CO
The City of Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs Utilities, Energy Resource Center, the Housing & Building Association of Colorado Springs, and Careers in Construction Colorado seek to validate concepts that aggregate power across complex energy systems, including virtual power plants. This will support the deployment of large amounts of solar, grid-connected buildings, electric vehicles (EVs), and other distributed resources.
Delaware Valley, PA and NJ
The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, Philadelphia Electric Company, Bucks County Opportunity Council, Community Action Agency of Delaware County, and the Community Action Development Commission of Montgomery County aim to identify the most impactful clean energy solutions for the Delaware Valley region, and create a Regional Clean Energy Activation Hub that will help facilitate and streamline procurement for identified technologies across its 200+ municipalities.
Moloka‘i, HI
The Hawaiʻi State Energy Office, Hawaiian Electric, Hoʻāhu Energy Cooperative Molokai, Moloka‘i Clean Energy Hui, and Shake Energy Collaborative aims to develop and validate a portfolio of renewable energy generation projects that meets 100% of Molokaʻi’s electricity needs while supporting community values.
Pittsburgh, PA
The City of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh’s Department of City Planning, Duquesne Light Company, and the Green Building Alliance plan deploy Smart Electric Energy Districts as part of a comprehensive approach to achieving a clean and affordable electricity system. These districts are comprised of ‘smart’ energy infrastructure, such as rooftop solar, appliances, buildings, energy storage, and EV chargers, and can work together to meet both grid and community needs throughout the city and surrounding areas.
Sitka, AK
The City and Borough of Sitka, City and Borough of Sitka Electric Department, Renewable Energy Alaska Project, and Mt. Edgecumbe High School aim to optimize their existing hydropower generation as well as planned solar, wind, and storage projects. They will also explore the potential to use clean energy to produce ammonia, which could be exported and help lower energy costs and emissions for local families and businesses.
Fairbanks, Alaska
C2C’s pilot partnership with Fairbanks, Alaska, helped local leaders and the area’s electric utility identify innovative ways to expand clean energy generation and utilization while ensuring reliability ahead of a planned coal plant closure. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) received a prestigious R&D 100 award for the development of a simulation and emulation platform used to implement the pilot project.[1]
Peer-learning cohorts
Cook County, Illinois
Cook County, Illinois, developed an EV-charging strategy.
Little Rock, Arkansa
Little Rock, Arkansas, established a plan to achieve 100% clean energy for its municipal operations by 2030.
San Diego Association of Governments
The San Diego Association of Governments found new ways to enhance community participation in clean energy planning.
Clean Cities and Communities
Clean Cities and Communities offered ongoing support to participants during and between cohort sessions.
Contact
If you have questions about the C2C program, please email C2C@nrel.gov.
Related
External links
- https://www.energy.gov/eere/clean-energy-communities-program
- https://www.nrel.gov/state-local-tribal/clean-energy-to-communities.html
References
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