Resilient Maryland

These are the FY26 conditions for local governments, state government units, nonprofits and businesses legally authorized to operate in Maryland. Residential applicants are excluded. Project sites and the locations benefiting from them must be in Maryland.

• Applicants and project contractors need Maryland authorization, good standing with the Department of Assessments and Taxation, a Certificate of Status, and an established employer identification number. Provide the applicant's IRS W-9. The grantee's EIN cannot change after the agreement is executed.
• Own or lease the site and document that right. For leased sites, the owner's signed concurrence must permit installation and keep the upgrades operational for their economic life, including after tenant turnover.
• Demonstrate ability to provide the applicable share of project costs not covered by the grant (the cost match). Form a project planning committee with community, local government and utility representatives and support letters from each. If the utility declines, document outreach and justify its substitute.
• Hubs must provide emergency heating and cooling, medication refrigeration, phone and computer charging, ventilation and emergency lighting. Locate the hub centrally in a walkable, easily accessible community area, approximately half a mile from the people it serves. They must be open to the surrounding community during outages without discrimination or restriction. AOI 3 requires at least five years of public operation, serving a majority of low- or moderate-income households, at no cost to those households.
• AOI 3 requires a qualifying low- or moderate-income or overburdened community, both solar panels and batteries, and a majority of households served meeting the statutory income definitions. Low income means annual adjusted gross household income at or below 175% of the federal poverty level; moderate income means at or below 80% of the local median income in the latest DHCD Income Limits document. The FY26 FOA additionally requires affirmation that more than 50% of residents within walking distance meet its 80%-of-statewide-median-income condition. Submit the separate affidavit that at least 50% of people served live in the designated census tract. Use the Census Geocoder GeoID to compare your site with MEA's eligible-tract list. Hubs ineligible for AOI 3 may qualify under AOI 2.
• AOI 2 and AOI 3 hub applications must demonstrate a 50% probability of sustaining critical loads—the power needed for essential emergency services—for 72 hours, operating at least 14 hours per day.
• Before invoicing under AOI 3, obtain written attestations from installation contractors and subcontractors: wages at least 150% of state minimum wage, collective bargaining rights, paid leave, unemployment-insurance-covered employment, workers' compensation, wage-and-hour compliance for the longer of three years or the business's lifetime, and employer health coverage with monthly employee premiums no more than 8.5% of net monthly earnings.
• Land or building acquisition, routine maintenance and repairs, renewable-capacity expansion without resilience or critical backup, and residential storage are excluded. Different MEA applications must fund distinct measures or technologies. Greenhouse-gas-emitting combustion technologies are normally excluded; limited exceptions need technical or safety evidence that zero-emission alternatives are infeasible, consideration of alternatives and a future fossil-fuel phaseout or reduction plan. Cost alone is insufficient. Basic health-and-safety repairs must not extend fossil-system life.
• Observe the Strategic Energy Investment Fund (SEIF) workforce rule: MEA assesses whether at least 80% of worksite workers live in Maryland or within 50 miles of its borders. Obtain historic-preservation clearance before construction and comply with required permits, licenses and codes.
• State and local government recipients must comply with the American-manufactured-goods and American-steel procurement rules. For public-work contracts, including machinery and equipment installed at public-work sites, contractors must normally supply goods manufactured or assembled in the United States. Emergency life-safety and property-safety goods are exempt. The head of the public body can allow exceptions for an unreasonable price difference, insufficient US availability, substantially lower quality of comparably priced US goods, or inconsistency with the public interest. The American-steel requirement covers public-work construction and maintenance, and machinery or equipment containing at least 10,000 pounds of steel installed at a public-work site. Its exceptions concern unreasonable price, insufficient quantity, or public interest; bid invitations or requests for proposals must state the steel requirement.
• Grantees and contractors normally need at least $1 million of third-party liability coverage per occurrence, with the state/MEA named as required. MEA may accept documented self-insurance, including for public bodies, or approve a written waiver or modification. The agreement includes declarations concerning debarment, financial default to the state or MEA, bribery, collusion and contingent grant-securing fees.

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• FY26 application portal closed. These amounts and requirements describe FY26; the FY27 notice does not establish a new intake.

Check the Resilient Maryland page for MEA's next official funding announcement. The FY26 Jotform portal is closed; the final FY26 deadline was January 9, 2026 at 3 p.m. Eastern Time.

FY26 applications used the Jotform linked on the programme page and required an accurate signed form, project proposal of up to ten pages plus a one-page executive summary, budget workbook documenting all funding sources and match, ownership or lease evidence, W-9, good-standing certificates and committee support letters. Installation applicants had to upload the five planning deliverables prepared to date; AOI 3 also required its affidavits.

Successful applicants must sign a grant agreement before receiving funds. Pre-agreement costs are excluded unless MEA agrees in writing. FY26 projects, milestones and required reports must finish by December 31, 2030, assuming agreement execution by July 1, 2026. Return the signed agreement within ten business days after MEA emails it unless a written extension is granted; otherwise the award is automatically revoked. Reimbursement requests must arrive within 60 days of project completion unless MEA grants a written extension.

Payments normally reimburse documented work and incurred eligible costs. Maintain the progress reporting required in your agreement; the FOA specifies quarterly reporting. Keep project and expense records and allow audits and worksite access for at least three years after final reimbursement. Agreement amendments require both parties' signed writing, apart from authorized short deadline extensions; transferring obligations needs prior written MEA consent. Ineligible spending can trigger withholding, repayment or offsets against other state grants; unused funds must be repaid immediately.