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
Power at Sea Prize	DOE (WPTO)	Hydroelectric	Over two phases, the Power at Sea Prize will incentivize competitors to develop novel, marine energy-powered concepts. Concepts can power any off-grid use in the ocean with marine energy, which includes power from waves, tides, and ocean currents. To accelerate the commercialization of the nascent marine energy industry, competitors’ concepts should have a high potential for eventual deployment at sea.
Re-X Before Recylcing	DOE (EERE)	Building Energy Efficiency	This three-phase prize will award a total of $4.5 million in cash prizes and $1.1 million in national laboratory analysis consultation and technical assistance to teams that develop innovative ways to extend the lifetimes of products or parts via re-using, repairing, refurbishing, remanufacturing, or repurposing (“Re-X”) before recycling.
Regional Initiative to Accelerate Carbon Management Deployment	DOE (NETL)	Industrial Decarbonization and CCUS	The Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) intends to issue a Funding Opportunity Announcement seeking applications for financial assistance awards that would support the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management’s Carbon Transport and Storage Program.
Renewable Energy Siting through Technical Engagement and Planning (R-STEP) - Ro…	DOE	Solar	This opportunity will award up to $12 million—funded through the Inflation Reduction Act—to support the creation or expansion of state-based programs or initiatives that improve renewable energy siting processes at the state and local levels. DOE anticipates awarding approximately six to seven state-based collaboratives to establish or expand their programs or initiatives. Collaboratives will also benefit from tailored technical assistance and peer-to-peer learning opportunities.
Research on Crosscutting Foundational Science for Energy Earthshots	DOE (EERE)	Solar, Wind, Batteries and Energy Storage, Biofuels, Conservation, and Wastewater	The Energy Earthshots will accelerate breakthroughs towards more abundant, affordable, and reliable clean energy solutions. The awards supported by this funding opportunity will bring together small teams focused on the crosscutting scientific challenges addressing multiple Energy Earthshots. Research will support basic science to seed innovations or to provide the scientific understanding to support existing technology development pathways.
Rural and Municipal Utility Advanced Cybersecurity Grant and Technical Assistan…	BIL, DOE	Grid Modernization and Transmission	The goal of the Rural and Municipal Utility Advanced Cybersecurity Grant and Technical Assistance Program (RMUC Program) is to enhance the security posture of rural, municipal, and small investor-owned electric utilities and increase their participation in threat information sharing programs.
Rural Energy for America Program (Section 22002)	Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018, IRA, DOA	Solar, Wind, Geothermal, Hydrogen, Biofuels, Conservation, and Wastewater, Hydroelectric, Building Energy Efficiency	The Department of Agriculture's Rural Energy for America ("REAP") program provides guaranteed loan financing and grant funding to agricultural producers and rural small businesses for renewable energy systems or to make energy efficiency improvements. Up to $300 million of grant and loan guarantee funding has been announced under Section 22002 of REAP and 3,000 awards are expected.
Science Foundations for Energy Earthshots	DOE (SC)	Wind, Batteries and Energy Storage, Geothermal, Hydrogen, Industrial Decarbonization and CCUS	Ran by the Office of Science (SC), The Energy Earthshots drive integrated program development and execution across the Department of Energy’s basic science and energy technology offices. They are part of an all-hands-on-deck approach to provide science and technology innovations that address the tough technological challenges required to achieve our climate and economic competitiveness goals. Six Energy Earthshots have been announced so far: Hydrogen Shot, Long Duration Storage Shot, Carbon Negative Shot, Enhanced Geothermal Shot, Floating Offshore Wind Shot, and Industrial Heat Shot. Priority will be given to applications that focus on crosscutting research relevant to multiple Energy Earthshots.
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfe…	DOE (EERE)	Building Energy Efficiency	Through the SBIR/STTR programs, DOE will support high-quality research or R&D on innovative concepts concerning important mission-related scientific or engineering problems and opportunities that have high potential for commercialization. The FOA will provide grants with maximum award sizes of $200,000 or $250,000 to small businesses
Small Innovative Projects in Solar: Concentrating Solar Power and Photovoltaics…	DOE (SETO)	Solar	The Small Innovative Projects in Solar (SIPS) FOA is being issued to invest in innovative research and development (R&D) that accelerates the large-scale development and deployment of solar technologies to support an equitable transition to a decarbonized electricity system by 2035 and decarbonized energy sector by 2050. The FOA solicits seedling R&D projects for both photovoltaic and concentrating solar thermal power technologies.