The Biden administration turned down a Houston utility’s request for funding to upgrade grid infrastructure before Hurricane Beryl knocked out power in the city this week, according to E&E News.
CenterPoint Energy — the Houston-based utility — applied for about $100 million from the Department of Energy’s (DOE) $10.5 billion Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships (GRIP) Program, but its application was denied by the agency in 2023, according to E&E News. GRIP funding is specifically meant to “improve the resilience of the power system against growing threats of extreme weather” across the U.S., and Hurricane Beryl ultimately knocked out power for millions of people this week in the largest power outage in CenterPoint’s history, according to local outlet ABC13.
Specifically, CenterPoint requested the assistance “to fund high wind and flood mitigation projects,” and it was flooding and high winds from the storm that teamed up to knock out power in Houston, according to E&E News. The utility wanted to upgrade the power lines and poles that were damaged by Hurricane Beryl, though it is not clear that the upgrades would have been completed before the storm hit Houston. […]
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