The Energy Transitions Initiative Partnership Project (ETIPP) is a project under the United States Department of Energy to provide federal aid to remote communities in the United States for improving their electric infrastructure, energy costs, and resiliency during natural disasters and outages.
[1] The project announced the first 11 participating communities in April 2021, with a new round of applications planned for the fall of 2021.
[2] The regional agencies share local needs to the national partners and ensure that the communities lead the decisions.
[3] Senators Susan Collins (Maine), Angus King (Maine), Brian Schatz (Hawaii), Mazie Hirono (Hawaii) praised the project.
[1] The 2021 first round of selected communities and potential plans include:[1] In June 2022, the Department of Energy announced another 12 communities/organizations that would receive grants:[4]