GSCEP: Example Proposals Page

Applicant eligibility for project category F:  Federally recognized tribal government  K-12 school district  Local government (see definition in Section 1.7)  Public higher education institution  Public retail electric utility (municipal or public utility district)  State agency 

F. Solar installations on existing public buildings  Construction projects only  Must purchase and install solar PV only at an existing public building (must have a certificate of occupancy prior to application). See definition of public building in section 1.7 

C. Hard to decarbonize and economic development  Planning or a construction project. Planning a project must lead to a capital asset.  

The project must achieve one or more of the following goals: a. Reduce emissions in hard-to-decarbonize sectors (see definition) 

D. Grid integration and innovation  Planning or a construction project  Must develop and demonstrate distributed energy resources and non-wire alternatives  Must be for electrical grid integration and innovation projects  Must do at least one of the following: o Support implementation of demand response o Improve integration of renewable energy and energy storage o Advance community resilience o Support implementation of sustainable microgrids o Accelerate beneficial load integration and demand management for at least one of the following:  Building electrification  Equipment electrification  Electric vehicle charging.

Applicant eligibility for project category E:  Federally recognized tribe  Local government 

E. Clean energy siting and permitting  Planning projects only  Must support siting and permitting of clean energy projects through at least one of the following methods: o Support pre-development work at sites for clean energy projects o Support land use studies o Conduct or engage in planning efforts such as planned actions and programmatic environmental impact statements (EIS) o Improve permit timeliness and certainty with staff, expertise or databases 

A. Large scale solar innovation  Planning or a construction project. Planning project must lead to a capital asset.  Solar array(s) must have alternating current (AC) nameplate capacity of more than 100 kW at a single site or more than 1 MW across multiple sites  Cannot displace critical habitat or productive farmland