Energy Funding Matrix
Unleashing American energy has become a key focus of the current administration. Meanwhile, some opportunities from earlier pieces of legislation, such as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) which created dozens of grant, loan and financing programs for renewable energies, are still available. 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 energy goals. MLS and Mintz have developed a funding matrix that serves as an aggregate resource to help you leverage federal dollars in your energy efforts. This matrix is updated on a bi-weekly basis.
| Opportunity Type | Opportunity | Federal Office | Technologies | Description | Submission Deadline | |
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| FOA fixed deadline | 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 |
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| FOA fixed deadline | Rural Energy for America Program (Section 22002) | Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018, IRA, DOA |
Biofuels, Conservation, and Wastewater, Building Energy Efficiency, Geothermal, Hydroelectric, Hydrogen, Solar, Wind | 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. |
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| FOA Funding Open Until Expended | Energy Efficiency and Conservation Loan Program | USDA |
Building Energy Efficiency, Grid Modernization and Transmission | The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Loan Program (EECLP) provides loans to finance energy efficiency and conservation projects for commercial, industrial, and residential consumers. With the EECLP, eligible utilities, including existing Rural Utilities Service borrowers can borrow money tied to Treasury rates of interest and re-lend the money to develop new and diverse energy service products within their service territories. For instance, borrowers could set up on-bill financing programs whereby customers in their service territories implement energy efficiency measures behind the meter and repay the loan to the distribution utility through their electric bills. |
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| FOA Funding Open Until Expended | Energy Resource Conservation | USDA |
Building Energy Efficiency, Grid Modernization and Transmission | Nearly every rural electric cooperative utility nationwide has some form of energy efficiency program as part of its strategy to manage power costs, meet consumer demand and increase environmental regulatory compliance. The Energy Resource Conservation (ERC) Program enables current Rural Utilities Service (RUS) borrowers to make funds available to their consumers for energy conservation and renewable energy projects by deferring payment of principal and interest. |
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| FOA Funding Open Until Expended | 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 |