Provides $250 million in grants and technical assistance to rural and municipal utilities to enhance their cybersecurity capabilities. Eligible utilities include rural electric cooperatives, state-owned utilities, not-for-profits, and smaller investor-owned utilities. The program focuses on helping utilities detect, respond to, and recover from cybersecurity threats to improve energy security.
Eligible applicants include rural electric cooperatives, utilities owned by state political subdivisions or agencies, not-for-profit entities, and investor-owned electricity utilities selling less than 4 million megawatt hours annually.
