Please join the Thriving Communities Program and the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation to discuss electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Please see details below.
The Interagency Working Group (IWG) for Energy Communities will be hosting a webinar — Getting Started: Meeting Communities Where They Are
March 6, 2024, at 1:00 p.m. EST.
This webinar will highlight their planning and action guide for community leaders, volunteers, and change agents whose communities are facing economic transition. Register here.
DOT’s Thriving Communities Program and the Joint Office are hosting
EV Charging infrastructure webinars
Coming Up
Workforce Development Tools and Resources
Mar 5, 2024 at 02:00 PM Register Here
The Joint Office of Energy and Transportation (Joint Office) will host a webinar discussing workforce training programs, job creation, and local and economic hiring preferences in the transition to electrified transportation. Workforce development experts across the federal government will provide updates on new resources that are available to stakeholders, including web content from the Joint Office, updates on funded projects from the Ride and Drive Electric Funding Opportunity, and resources across the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Department of Transportation.
EV Charging Infrastructure Office Hours Session: Q&A
March 20th, 2024 at 3:00 p.m. EST Register Here
Where you can ask staff specific questions about your community’s EV needs. Webinar topics include upcoming EV grant opportunities, permitting and site selection strategies, navigating zoning and building codes, utility coordination, curbside charging strategies, leveraging public/private investments, incorporating community charging into the national network, and more
2 Federal grants that we have been hearing about from Resource Rural Network partners:
DOE’s Office of Clean Energy (OCED) Empowering Rural Areas (ERA) Funding
This week the EPA announced 17 community driven projects that have been awarded funding from the ERA program. Check them out here!
Here are some links that provide more guidance developing Community Benefits Plans and Community Benefits Agreements.
Additional resources to learn more about DOE’s ERA Funding opportunity can be found on the ERA website, including a program fact sheet, a technical assistance fact sheet, and a geospatial dashboard tool to review community eligibility.
OCED has also recently released a publication that more broadly reviews energy-related funding opportunities for rural communities: Federal Energy Funding for Rural and Remote Areas: A Guide for Communities.
EPA’s Community Change Grant (CCG)
Southwest GA Regional Commission assures that no person shall, on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, family or religious status, as provided by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Federal Transit Laws, 49 CFR Part 21 Unlawful Discrimination, Nondiscrimination In Federally-Assisted Programs Of The Department Of Transportation and as per written guidance under FTA Circular 4702.1B, dated October 2012, be excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, or be otherwise subjected to discrimination or retaliation under any program or activity undertaken by the agency.
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