Leveraging the power of collaboration to advance comprehensive solutions.
The Connected Grid Initiative makes strategic grants to educate, foster collaboration, and promote a positive, nonpartisan vision to advance multiple priorities in the energy transition. Our strategic leadership, coordination, and grantmaking encourages embrace of:
- New transmission lines to expand regional and interregional grids, enhancing capacity and reliability over the long-term.
- Grid Enhancing Technologies and High-Performance Conductors that can boost capacity within existing transmission lines, speeding interconnection in the near-term.
- Long-term planning, streamlined siting and permitting, and expedited regulatory approval for new transmission projects to reduce delay and financing risk.
By matching mission-driven funding with the highest-impact grantees working on 21st‑century transmission solutions, CGI is filling gaps in philanthropic support of a critical area enabling energy transformation.