Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) – Joint Office of Energy and Transportation: Communities Taking Charge Accelerator, Fiscal Year 2024 Funding Opportunity Announcement
Funding Agency:
- Department of Energy
The Biden Administration has laid out a bold agenda to modernize and transform the nation’s infrastructure, tackle the climate crisis, support good-paying American jobs, and ensure a just and equitable transition. Transportation is the sector that contributes most to greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. Transportation electrification has a key role to play in realizing all these outcomes and the Administration has established key targets to achieve by 2030:
1. Build an affordable, reliable, and convenient national network of 500,000 public EV charging ports.
2. Have EVs account for over 50% of light-duty vehicle sales in the United States.
The transition to electrified transportation is occurring rapidly: Since President Biden took office, EV sales have more than quadrupled, with more than four and a half million EVs on the road. In 2023, over 1.4 million EVs were sold, and EV ownership is more affordable than ever before, with prices down over 20% from one year ago. The number of publicly available charging ports has also grown by over 70 percent, to over 175,000 public charging ports.
Federal investments will accelerate this transition and catalyze additional private sector investment. More than $25 billion of investment in the U.S. EV charging network has been announced to date, including more than $10 billion from the private sector. States are accelerating progress on deploying EV chargers using federal formula funding through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s NEVI (National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure) program. Over $2.4 billion has been made available through the NEVI program, and many States such as Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Hawaii are already bringing NEVI-funded charging stations online. The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) also continue to support the transition to clean transit and school bus fleets, improve facilities, and advance workforce development. Earlier this year, the EPA announced nearly $1 billion in awards for clean school buses across the nation through the U.S. EPA Clean School Bus Program Grants Competition. And on February 8. 2024, the FTA made nearly $1.5 billion available for the Low or No Emission and Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities Competitive Programs.
Award Ceiling: $4,000,000
$54,000,000
Submission Deadline for Concept Papers: May 20, 2024, 5:00 pm ET
July 16, 2024 5:00 pm ET