Energy Funding Matrix
Funding the clean energy transition has become a clear focus of the current administration. Recent pieces of legislation, such as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), have created dozens of grant, loan and financing programs for renewable energies. These opportunities were sourced across agencies and collected in a central location to ensure you find the relevant grant, loan or financing program that fits your organization’s renewable energy goals. MLS and Mintz have developed an ESG funding matrix that serves as an aggregate resource to help you leverage federal dollars in your clean and renewable energy efforts. This matrix is updated on a bi-weekly basis.
Opportunity | Federal Office | Technologies | Description |
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i2X Solar and Wind Interconnection for Future Transmission (SWIFTR) | DOE | Solar, Wind | This FOA will provide up to $10 million to develop new analytical tools and approaches that will accelerate the reliable interconnection of renewable energy into the electrical grid. Specifically, the FOA seeks to fund application to address the challenges in the transmission system interconnection processes by creating software tools that can accurately simulate the effect of new clean energy plants on existing grid infrastructure, and by providing detailed, secure data to project developers. |
Industrial Assessment Center (IAC) Program | BIL, DOE | Manufacturing | The DOE Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains (MESC) has issued this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to establish new Industrial Assessment Centers (IACs) at community colleges, trade schools, and union training programs, as well as to create new Building Training and Assessment Centers (BTACs) at institutions of higher education, including Tribal colleges and universities. The new IACs will focus on high-quality skilled trades job pathways in fields such as industrial electrician, energy management, renewable energy, and advanced manufacturing, while providing hands-on support to small and medium manufactures. |
Industrial Demonstrations Program | DOE (OCED) | Industrial Decarbonization and CCUS | The Industrial Demonstrations Program will fund projects that focus on the highest emitting and hardest to abate industries where decarbonization technologies can have the greatest impact: iron and steel, cement and concrete, chemicals and refining, food and beverage, paper and forest products, aluminum, other energy-intensive manufacturing industries and cross-cutting technologies. |
Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office (IEDO) Fiscal Year 2024 Cross-… | DOE (EERE, IEDO) | Industrial Decarbonization and CCUS, Building Energy Efficiency | Through this funding opportunity, the Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office (IEDO) seeks high-impact, applied research, development, and pilot demonstration (RD&D) projects that will help drive the transformational cross-sector technologies and innovations required to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the industrial sector. The topics areas for funding incldue: Electrification of Industrial Heat, Efficient Energy Use in Industrial Systems, and Decarbonizing Organic Wastewater and Wet Waste Treatment. |
Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022: State-Based Home Energy Efficiency Contr… | DOE | Building Energy Efficiency | This grant program supports States in training and certifying contractors to assist in the completion of home energy retrofits, including those funded by the HOMES and HEEHRA rebates. |
Innovative Designs for High-Performance Low-Cost HVDC Converters (Ideal HVDC) | DOE (EERE) | Grid Modernization and Transmission | This FOA will fund research to drive innovation and reduce costs of high-voltage direct current (HVDC) voltage source converter (VSC) transmission systems, with $10 million in funding available. |
Installation Noise Reduction and Reliable Moorings for Offshore Wind and Marine… | DOE (EERE), DOE (WETO), DEO (WPTO) | Wind | This FOA supports accelerated and responsible development of offshore renewable energy by funding research to reduce risk and improve environmental compatibility of deployments in all regions of U.S. waters including the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Great Lakes, and the Gulf of Mexico. This includes research into the integrity and monitoring of mooring lines for floating offshore wind energy systems and marine energy converters, as well as reducing or avoiding noise generation and propagation during the installation of fixed-bottom offshore wind foundations. |
Loan Programs Office Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Financing | DOE (LPO) | EV Charging and EV Vehicles | The Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office funds the manufacture of eligible light-duty vehicles and qualifying components under the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program ("ATVM"). These applications are accepted on a rolling basis. ATVM has approximately $15.1 billion in loan guarantee authority. |
Loan Programs Office Title 17 Energy Infrastructure Reinvestment (New Section 1… | Energy Policy Act of 2005, Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022, DOE (LPO) | Batteries and Energy Storage, Building Energy Efficiency, Grid Modernization and Transmission | The Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office has issued a solicitation under its Tribal Loan Guarantee authority ("TELGP") to issue direct loans and loan guarantees for certain eligible projects for energy development on Native lands, including electricity generation, transmission, and distribution facilities, energy storage, energy resource extraction, energy transportation facilities, heating and cooling facilities, cogeneration facilities, and distributed energy project portfolios |
Loan Programs Office Title 17 Innovative Fossil Loan Guarantees | DOE (LPO) | Industrial Decarbonization and CCUS | The Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office has posted an Innovative Clean Fossil Solicitation under Title 17 to issue loan guarantees for certain eligible fossil fuel projects that reduce GHG emissions and are new technologies, including hydrogen fuel cell technology, carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration, production facilities for the manufacture of fuel-efficient vehicles, pollution control equipment, energy storage technologies, and processes for reducing emissions for industrial applications such as iron, steel, cement, and ammonia production. |