Municipal energy upgrade prospect list

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Each tool's price and track record across every agent today. Empty means the call worked and found nothing.

# Municipal energy upgrade prospect list

For one state or region. Recipient names from step 1 carry into the ranking.

## 1. Who already got money

1. Search @[USAspending · Award search](alexandria:usaspending-gov/awards/award_search) for grants with keywords such as "energy efficiency" or "solar", place of performance in your state, last two fiscal years. List local government recipients and amounts.
2. Read @[USAspending · Award](alexandria:usaspending-gov/awards/award) for the largest to see the programme and period of performance.

## 2. What is open now

3. Search @[Grants.gov · Search](alexandria:grants-gov/opportunities/search) for energy efficiency and resilience programmes with eligibilities 01 (county) and 02 (city). Read @[Grants.gov · Detail](alexandria:grants-gov/opportunities/detail) for deadlines and match requirements.

## 3. Economics

4. Pull commercial electricity price for the state from the retail sales route with @[EIA · Data](alexandria:eia-gov/energy-data/data) (find facets with @[EIA · Facet values](alexandria:eia-gov/energy-data/facet_values)).
5. Read population for each prospect with @[Census Bureau · Data](alexandria:census-gov/census/data) (acs/acs5, B01003_001E).

## Write the prospect list

- **Prospects:** government, recent awards, open programmes it qualifies for, population.
- **Why now:** awards with spend-down deadlines and grants closing soon.
- **Pitch angle:** state power price and the programme to cite.
- **Sources:** cite every figure to the capability and record it came from. Say what could not be found rather than guessing.

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