FEMA Renewable Resilience Grants

This topic centers on a GAO review of FEMA funding for small-scale renewable energy projects used as hazard mitigation, including rooftop solar, microgrids, and solar generators.

The main issue is whether these projects can be shown to be cost-effective under federal rules, given the difficulty of valuing avoided outage damage and other indirect resilience benefits. The reporting matters because it sits at the intersection of disaster preparedness, critical-facility backup power, and the standards used to justify federal resilience spending.