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Awards/FORMULA GRANT (A)

$83,708,676

Department of Energy·Department of Energy

to DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT & CONSERVATION TENNESSEE

energyactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2025 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2025-01-01·LATEST ACTION2026-03-31·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_DESE0000065_089
Award description

TENNESSEE DEC WILL WORK WITH THEIR IMPLEMENTER TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY & MILEPOST CONSULTING TO EXECUTE ACTIVITIES OUTLINED IN IRA PROVISION 50121 TO DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT HOME ENERGY PERFORMANCE-BASED, WHOLE-HOUSE REBATES PROGRAM TO BENEFIT U.S. HOUSEHOLDS.

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Tennessee implements a home energy rebate program under the Inflation Reduction Act to help U.S. households improve whole-house energy performance.

Sub-sectors
home-energy-efficiencyira-implementationrebate-program
Why this matters

Part of IRA's $369B climate investment; scales residential efficiency retrofits to reduce household energy costs and emissions while building state implementation capacity.

Supply-chain signal

Drives demand for HVAC, insulation, heat pump, and weatherization contractors and suppliers across Tennessee; creates jobs in building trades and energy audit services.

U.S.–China competition angle

U.S. domestic energy efficiency program reduces reliance on imported energy and competes with China's manufacturing dominance in heat pumps and efficiency components.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-31. Cost: $0.003057.

Period of performance
Start
2025-01-01
End
2029-12-31
Status
activein 1267 days
Sources

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