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State Energy Program Special Projects

Program Information

Popular name

SEP Competitive Grants

Program Number

81.119

Sub-agency

N/A

Program objective

To allow States to submit proposals to implement specific Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy deployment activities and initiatives as Special Projects under the State Energy Program. States will compete for funding to implement activities relating to a number of programmatic areas such as building codes and standards, alternative fuels, industrial efficiency, building efficiency, and solar and renewable technologies.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2022

    As in fiscal year 2021, the SEP Special Projects (Competitive SEP) funding has been removed from this Assistance Listing, and added to the funding for Assistance Listing 81.041 State Energy Program (SEP). This funding was statutorily added to the formula funding for the 56 States and Territories.

  2. 2023

    In fiscal year 2022 a $100,000 project was issued to broaden interstate and federal understanding and engagement on electricity policy.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

EERE SEP Program and 2 CFR 200 & 10 CFR 420