JCE Co-op awarded $1.13 Million Grid Resilience Grant

JCE Co-op has been awarded $1,132,500 through the Illinois Finance Authority’s Grid Resilience Grants program, administered by the Illinois Climate Bank and funded in part by the U.S. Department of Energy.

The funding will support JCE Co-op’s Rural Grid Modernization Initiative, a series of projects designed to upgrade more than nine miles of aging overhead and underground three-phase distribution lines in Carroll and Jo Daviess counties. The work will help improve reliability, strengthen voltage support, increase grid flexibility and reduce restoration times during outages.

The project will focus on converting legacy radial infrastructure into modern, looped, higher-capacity circuits. These improvements will help JCE Co-op better serve members across rural northwest Illinois and support long-term grid modernization.

Project work is not expected to begin until 2027.

For more information, contact Kyle Buros at kburos@jcecoop.com.