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Community Microgrid Assistance Partnership Direct Funding Opportunity
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The Community Microgrid Assistance Partnership (C-MAP) is a direct funding opportunity issued by the U.S. Department of Energy through its Office of Electricity and administered by the LLC - DOE Contractor Alliance for Energy Innovation, specifically via the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), to support renewable energy resilience in rural and remote communities across Alaska, Hawai’i, and the contiguous United States. This initiative targets the development, improvement, and coordination of microgrid systems defined as interconnected loads and distributed energy resources operating as a single controllable unit, whether islanded or temporarily disconnected from the main grid. The 2026 solicitation, identified as RFX-2026-10006-CMAP, seeks proposals across five distinct topic areas: Regional Microgrid Coordination, Microgrid Integration with Large Load Energy Consumers, Microgrid Development, Microgrid Transformation, and Microgrid Assessment for Industrial or Large Load Energy Consumers. Each proposal must focus on a single topic area and is expected to deliver detailed engineering designs, financial assessments, operational improvements, or collaborative frameworks that enhance energy affordability, reliability, resilience, and security while demonstrating potential for replication and commercialization. Only eligible entities may apply—nonprofits, state and local governments, and federally recognized Tribes for topics 1-4, and U.S.-based companies for topic 5—all must operate within eligible remote or island regions and not represent U.S. Territories. Proposals must be submitted electronically by July 10, 2026, at 8:00 PM Mountain Time, following strict formatting guidelines including a 15-page technical limit, 12-point font, one-inch margins, and mandatory inclusion of Attachments 3 and 4, which outline community and microgrid specifications and a deliverable schedule template. Offerors must certify their size and socioeconomic status through SAM.gov or via a provided Small Business Size Certification Form and submit an Eligibility Verification form confirming geographic and entity alignment. The evaluation uses a Best Value Selection approach, where 90% of the score derives from qualitative merit criteria tailored to each topic area—focusing on project context, technical approach, impact potential, team expertise, and additional factors—while 10% is allocated to programmatic factors including geographic diversity, impact distribution across affordability and resilience metrics, technology representation, and potential for near-term replication. The contract type is Firm Fixed Price, with payment contingent upon timely submission of deliverables and invoices complying with detailed requirements including electronic format, specified subject line structure,
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Arvada, CO, 80007, USASet-Aside
Timeline
Submission Closed
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6/17/26 Amendment No. 02 extending proposal due date to 7/10.
6/8/26 Amendment No. 01 posted to update RFP and answer questions.
See Request for Proposal RFX-2026-10006-CMAP and Attachments 1-6, for full description.
Program Overview
The Community Microgrid Assistance Partnership (C-MAP) is an effort through the United States (U.S.) Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) to expand American’s access to affordable energy, strengthen grid reliability, and bolster national security. The program supports the implementation of innovative OE-funded research to improve energy delivery to Americans living and working in rural and remote areas that have less reliable energy systems and some of the highest energy costs in the nation. Through this effort, DOE-OE provides direct funding, access to technical experts, and educational resources to energy providers and partners to build, operate, and enhance microgrid systems that improve the affordability, reliability, and security of electricity in rural and remote areas of the U.S.
The 2026 C-MAP solicitation aims to support rural and remote communities to:
• Develop and implement multi-community support efforts to better support or develop advanced microgrid energy systems
• Develop detailed engineering designs and financial assessments in support of developing advanced microgrid systems
• Expand collaboration between energy providers and large load energy users, with a goal to expand industrial development in rural areas
• Assess and improve the operation of existing microgrid energy systems.
This call for proposals will support energy providers, local governments and U.S. industry in remote areas to improve the operational efficiency of existing or development of new microgrid energy systems. This solicitation uses the U.S. Department of Energy definition of a microgrid: “a group of interconnected loads and distributed energy resources within clearly defined electrical boundaries that acts as a single controllable entity.”
This solicitation targets existing or proposed microgrids which experience challenges with cost, reliability, resilience, and/or power quality. The microgrids may be electrically islanded (not connected to an external electricity infrastructure) or, if connected to external electrical infrastructure, such as electric transmission or distribution feeders, must at times operate independently of that external energy system.
The 2026 Community Microgrid Development Partnership Awards consist of five (5) topic areas:
1. Regional Microgrid Coordination
To help energy service providers from multiple communities collaborate to improve the operations of, or development opportunities for, separate microgrid power systems for their independent communities.
2. Microgrid Integration with Large Load Energy Consumers
To support collaboration between utilities operating community microgrids and adjacent large load energy consumers which operate, or plan to operate, independent power systems.
3. Microgrid Development
To assist individual communities with completing detailed design efforts for a new, or major retrofit of an existing, microgrid power system.
4. Microgrid Transformation
To equip individual communities to assess, design, and implement innovative microgrid improvements to operational microgrid systems.
5. Microgrid Assessment for Industrial or other Large Load Energy Consumers
To assist individual large energy consumers to develop or advance microgrid systems, expanding energy availability while lowering costs.
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