Statement from Tri-State CEO Duane Highley on DOE cancellation for GRIP award
(October 3, 2025 – Westminster, Colorado) Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association CEO Duane Highley offers the following comments regarding the termination of a Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships (GRIP) Program award for our association, by the Grid Deployment Office of the U.S. Department of Energy.
“It is with disappointment that Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association received news late Thursday night that the Grid Deployment Office of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has officially terminated our $26.8 million Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships (GRIP) Program award.
“The award would have offset some of the costs of implementing our demand response and load management programs, and other tools to optimize the system. We had been working with DOE over the last two years on the award, after being selected in October 2023.
“Over the next few days, we will review our appeal options. While disappointing, the withdrawal of this award does not change our plans to increase grid resiliency and reliability in the most affordable manner for our rural members in Wyoming, Nebraska, New Mexico and Colorado.”
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Tri-State is a power supply cooperative, operating on a not-for-profit basis, serving electric distribution cooperatives and public power district member-owners in four states. Together with our members, we deliver reliable, affordable and responsible power to more than a million electricity consumers across nearly 200,000 square miles of the rural West. Visit www.tristate.coop.
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Amy Robertson, 303-254-3743, amy.robertson@tristategt.org
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