The New Mexico Power, Minerals and Pure Assets Division is now accepting grant applications from public entities that may reveal how new applied sciences will be harnessed to develop a dependable trendy electrical grid.
The grant funding comes from the Group Advantages Fund the State Legislature created throughout its 2025 legislative session. The legislature allotted $70 million from the Group Profit Fund to the Grid Modernization Program administered by Power, Minerals and Pure Assets Division’s (EMNRD) Power Conservation and Administration Division (ECAM).
“This Grid Modernization Grant Fund infusion is a game-changer for New Mexico’s potential to seek out revolutionary methods of strengthening our electrical grid and constructing long-term resilience for our communities,” stated ECAM Director Rebecca “Puck” Stair. “On the precise time the federal authorities is cancelling grants for initiatives designed to enhance vitality infrastructure, New Mexico is leaning in with report state funding for grid mod.”
Grid modernization initiatives are anticipated to improve electrical distribution or transmission infrastructure to accommodate integration of renewable electrical energy sources or in any other case make the grid extra environment friendly, dependable and safe and higher ready to answer anticipated development in vitality demand.
ECAM is looking for to award grant funds to a few sorts of initiatives:
- Initiatives that contain building, set up, operation and verification of functioning trendy grid know-how at a challenge website.
- Initiatives consisting of pre-construction or design actions that might ultimately end result within the constructing and set up of totally useful trendy grid know-how.
- Unique analysis initiatives that advance the state’s understanding and appreciation of grid operate, reliability, resilience, safety and operation referring to the mixing of renewable and zero-carbon assets, together with impacts on buyer conduct, operations and upkeep prices or the worth of particular grid applied sciences.
By legislation, eligible candidates embrace municipalities and county governments; state businesses; public faculties; state universities and different post-secondary training establishments; and Native American nations, tribes and pueblos. All initiatives should happen inside New Mexico.
Questions regarding this funding alternative ought to be submitted in writing with “GRID MOD NOFO” within the topic header to Chadette Pfaff.
Purposes will probably be accepted and reviewed on a month-to-month rolling foundation starting Nov. 1, 2025, till all obtainable funds are awarded.
Information merchandise from the New Mexico Power, Minerals and Pure Assets Division
