Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Joint Office of Energy and Transportation: Communities Taking Charge Accelerator, Fiscal Year 2024 Funding Opportunity AnnouncementThis Funding Opportunity Announcement aims to help everyone ride and drive electric, foster public and private relationships, build interdisciplinary teams, advance the American blueprint for transportation decarbonization, and promote managed charging. The Joint Office of Energy and Transportation (Joint Office), through the U.S.
Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), is
issuing a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) entitled “Bipartisan
Infrastructure Law (BIL) – Joint Office of Energy and Transportation: Communities
Taking Charge Accelerator, Fiscal Year 2024 Funding Opportunity Announcement”.
Awards made under this FOA will be funded, in whole or in part, with funds
appropriated by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act1, more commonly
known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL).
The BIL is a once-in-a-generation investment in modernizing and upgrading
American infrastructure to enhance U.S. competitiveness, driving the creation of
good-paying union jobs, tackling the climate crisis, and securing environmental
justice and economic opportunity for disadvantaged communities2. The BIL
appropriates more than $62 billion to the Department of Energy (DOE)3 to invest in
American manufacturing and workers; expand access to energy efficiency and clean
energy; deliver reliable, clean, and affordable power to more Americans; and
demonstrate and deploy the clean-energy technologies of tomorrow through clean
energy demonstrations.
DOE’s BIL investments will support efforts to build a clean and equitable energy
economy that achieves a zero-carbon electricity system by 2035, and to put the
United States on a path to achieve net-zero emissions economy-wide by no later
than 20504 to benefit all Americans. The BIL includes a historic $7.5 billion dedicated investment to build out a national
network of Electric Vehicle (EV) chargers. As part of this investment, the BIL includes
$300 million to establish a Joint Office of Energy and Transportation to study, plan,
coordinate, and implement issues of joint concern between the U.S. Department of
Energy and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). The Communities Taking
Charge Accelerator FOA and related activities align with the Joint Office mission to
provide a modernized and interagency approach to support the deployment of zeroemission, convenient, accessible, and equitable transportation infrastructure. The
activities to be funded under this FOA support BIL section Title VIII, Division J,
Federal Highway Administration - Highway Infrastructure Program.