Federal grants to Nreca Research
Nreca Research in Arlington, Virginia received $77.5 million in federal grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, across 9 awards. Its largest program was Clean Energy Demonstrations, with $45.3 million. In fiscal 2025 it was awarded $41.2 million.
From USAspending.gov award records, updated October 31, 2026.
- Grants, FY 2021 to 2025$77.5 million
- Awards9
- Awarded in FY 2025$41.2 million
- Largest award$45.3 million
By year
| Fiscal year | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY 2021 | 3 | $1.1 million |
| FY 2022 | 3 | $10.6 million |
| FY 2023 | 4 | $9.0 million |
| FY 2024 | 5 | $15.5 million |
| FY 2025 | 3 | $41.2 million |
Programs that fund Nreca Research
| Program | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Clean Energy Demonstrations | 1 | $45.3 million |
| Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response (CESER) | 2 | $24.0 million |
| Renewable Energy Research and Development | 2 | $3.3 million |
| Conservation Research and Development | 1 | $2.3 million |
| Electricity Research, Development and Analysis | 2 | $2.1 million |
| Fossil Energy Research and Development | 1 | $500,000 |
Awarding agencies
| Agency | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Energy | 9 | $77.5 million |
Largest awards
| Award | Program | First action | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| This project plans to create a consortium of rural electric cooperatives and deploy microgrids (including solar pv, battery storage systems, and distribution upgrades) across seven rural communities in California, North Carolina, Minnesota, Arizona, Tennessee, and Montana. This national microgrid de | Clean Energy Demonstrations | September 24, 2024 | $45.3 million |
| Facilitate the rapid adoption and deployment of industrial control systems (ICS) energy sector cybersecurity technologies for rural electric cooperative utility companies | Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response (CESER) | September 27, 2022 | $20.0 million |
| Bipartisan infrastructure law (BIL) advancing the cybersecurity posture of electric cooperative utilities the purpose of this project is to increase the capability of rural cooperative to govern, identify, protect against, detect, respond to, and recover from cybersecurity threats and attacks. | Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response (CESER) | April 30, 2024 | $4.0 million |
| Cider: community integrated distributed energy resilience. The overall goal of this project is to mitigate the community impact of extreme outages by leveraging ders, as enabled by the development and demonstration of the cider platform and virtual battery technology. To develop the platform and its | Renewable Energy Research and Development | July 14, 2023 | $3.0 million |
| Rewired: rural electric utility workflow improvements for rapid evse deployment this project aims to development processes to minimize soft costs of charging installations to enable swifter deployment and lower costs of the national charging infrastructure. | Conservation Research and Development | May 31, 2024 | $2.3 million |
| DE-OE0000929, programmatic collaboration and coordination with electric cooperatives, new award | Electricity Research, Development and Analysis | August 13, 2021 | $1.2 million |
| Essence 2.0 development and deployment, new award | Electricity Research, Development and Analysis | November 23, 2020 | $925,000 |
| Rural energy recovery from waste (REROW) | Renewable Energy Research and Development | September 20, 2023 | $846,451 |
| Outreach for advanced storage integration and support (OASIS), new award | Fossil Energy Research and Development | September 20, 2021 | $500,000 |
Questions people ask
How much federal grant money does Nreca Research get?
$77.5 million in 9 grant awards from fiscal 2021 to 2025, as obligations reported to USAspending.gov.
Which agency gives Nreca Research the most?
The Department of Energy, with $77.5 million in 9 awards.
What is Nreca Research's largest federal grant?
$45.3 million under Clean Energy Demonstrations, with its first action in the period on September 24, 2024. That counts only the money obligated in fiscal 2021 to 2025.
Which federal programs fund Nreca Research?
Its largest are Clean Energy Demonstrations, Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response (CESER) and Renewable Energy Research and Development.
Other grant recipients in Arlington
- U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Inc.
- The Nature Conservancy
- The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
- National Experienced Workforce Solutions, Inc
- National Council on the Aging, Inc.
- Ethiopian Community Development Council, Inc.
- Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission
- American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences
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