Resilient Maryland Program

September 17, 2021

Summary

The Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) FY22 Resilient Maryland program provides grants to Maryland businesses, nonprofit organizations, industrial entities, critical infrastructure, multifamily housing complexes, communities, agricultural entities, and others for the costs of conducting feasibility analysis, engineering, planning, and design of microgrids and other distributed energy resource (DER) systems. Grant funds are used to offset the costs of producing planning deliverables that help key project stakeholders and prospective project financing entities understand DER system specifics and value proposition. These deliverables also provide MEA with detailed information on system configurations that are replicable and scalable and what challenges they face.

Funds are awarded under three (3) Areas of Interest (AOIs) as described in the table below. Note: “Resilient DER Systems” are DER systems that serve more than one (1) building (e.g. a campus or set of buildings in a community). “Resilient Facility Power Systems” are DER systems that serve a single building. See the program Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) on the Resilient Maryland webpage for a full glossary of terminology.

Resilient Maryland Area of Interest	Award Amount
AOI 1: Microgrids and Resilient DER Systems	$100,000 total
AOI 2: Resilient Facility Power Systems	$25,000 total
AOI 3: Resiliency Hub	$10,000 per hub

Program Restrictions

Grant funds are for preconstruction feasibility analysis and planning activities only. Funds are not provided for equipment and installation. Projects for potential distributed energy resource (DER) systems that consider one or more of the following technologies are eligible:

• Solar PV Systems
• Energy Storage
• Fuel Cells
• Combined Heat and Power
• Wind Turbines 
• Others (case-by-case basis)

Projects for potential distributed energy resource (DER) systems that consider one or more of the following technologies in addition to generation and storage technologies as described in the Eligible Renewable/Other Technologies section above are eligible:

• Building Management Systems
• Grid-interactive efficiency technologies
• Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs)
• Fuel Cells
• Combined Heat and Power
• Standard efficiency measures (LED upgrades, HVAC measures, building envelope, etc.)

Recipients of prior Resilient Maryland grants cannot receive additional Resilient Maryland grants for the same project. Projects must study DER systems that serve facilities located only within the State of Maryland. For a full list of program rules, requirements, and restrictions, please review the FOA on the Resilient Maryland webpage, available at https://energy.maryland.gov/business/Pages/ResilientMaryland.aspx.