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	Description
Direct Air Capture Pre-Commercial Technology Prize	DOE (FECM)	The Direct Air Capture Pre-Commercial Prize provides up to $15 million in prizes to incubate and accelerate research and development of breakthrough direct air capture technologies. The Direct Air Capture Commercial Prize provides up to $100 million in prizes to qualified direct air capture facilities for capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Distributed Energy Systsems Demonstrations Program	DOE (OCED)	In this FOA, OCED is seeking projects that can demonstrate that aggregated and coordinated distributed energy resources (DERs) can provide reliable, predictable grid services for a wide range of system configurations. This FOA makes available approximately $50 million in federal funds for transformative, at-scale projects within distribution systems. DOE will fund up to four (4) projects with an award size of at least $10 million.
Distributed Generation Energy Project Financing	USDA (RUS)	The RUS Electric Program can provide loans and loan guarantees to energy project developers for distributed energy projects including renewables that provide wholesale or retail electricity to existing Electric Program borrowers or to rural communities served by other utilities
Electric Vehicle Charger Reliability and Accessibility Accelerator	DOE (EERE)	The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) EV Charger Reliability and Accessibility Accelerator offers funding for the repair and replacement of existing, non-operational publicly accessible Level 2 and direct current fast charging (DCFC) stations. Funding is available for up to 80% of eligible project costs. Eligible applicants include State departments of transportation and local governments. For more information, see the DOT FHWA EV Charger Reliability and Accessibility Accelerator website.
Electronics Scrap Recycling Advancement Prize	DOE	This three-phase competition will award up to $4 million to competitors to substantially increase the production and use of critical materials recovered from electronic scrap—or e-scrap. This prize encourages innovations that enhance the recovery of critical materials along the recycling value chain from end-of-life products to reintroduction. Innovation is also needed to facilitate the integration of the separation technologies into the recycling value chain.
Energy Auditor Training	DOE (GFO)	The Energy Auditor Training (EAT) Program will provide Grant funding to States for the purpose of training individuals to conduct energy audits, or surveys, of commercial and residential buildings.
Energy Resource Conservation	USDA	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.
Energy Storage Demonstration and Validation	DOE (NETL)	This is Funding Opportunity Announcement for applications for innovative long duration energy storage system (ESS) demonstration projects that advance a technology towards commercialization and validate its cost and performance in the field to the energy stakeholder community. These demonstrations will contribute data to the National Lab led Rapid Operational Validation Initiative (ROVI) in order to unlock insights about the performance of these systems that will accelerate the testing and validation process for emerging technologies.
Energy Transitions Initiative Partnership Project (ETIPP)	DOE	ETIPP provides technical assistance for remote and island communities to bolster their energy resilience through tailored solutions. As a new element to the program this year, communities accepted to this cohort will also receive direct funding to support their time and engagement on the ETIPP project, in addition to in-kind technical assistance. Each community is paired with an experienced regional partner organization for approximately 18 months to receive guidance before, during, and beyond their ETIPP project.
Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) Pilot Demonstrations	DOE (GTO)	GTO's EGS program actively pursues research, development, and demonstration projects to facilitate technology validation and demonstration, reduce cost, and improve performance of EGS. The economic viability of EGS depends on developing and improving enabling technologies and detailed understanding of the subsurface, including geologic qualities, permeability, and other attributes.