Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. (BGE), a subsidiary of the Exelon Corp. and Maryland’s largest gas and electric utility, has been selected for up to $50 million in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships (GRIP) Program.
The funding opportunity, made available through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, will support BGE’s infrastructure and advanced technology investments in the electric distribution system, as well as community resiliency initiatives and workforce development programs.
Specifically, funding would support BGE’s proposed Interconnection Readiness and Deployment of Storage (BIRDS) program, which aims to build a grid modernization blueprint to deploy 11 megawatts (MW) of scalable battery energy storage solutions across the company’s distribution system, ramp up monitoring and control through substation upgrades, and through BGE’s subrecipients would enable up to 3 MW of customer-owned solar storage and electric vehicle charging stations.