The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory and the Colorado Energy Office issued a grant to Mountain View Electric Association to support wildfire mitigation efforts in El Paso County. The funding will also go toward technology and infrastructure upgrades at the Black Squirrel Substation, which serves approximately 11,000 people.
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To build this out to a proper 450–600 word brief, I'd need additional source documents covering details such as the grant amount, project timeline, scope of the mitigation work, or statements from officials. Could you provide additional reporting or source documents on this story?