Looking to implement energy efficiency upgrades, renewable energy and decarbonization projects, or other sustainability initiatives? The Funding and Incentives Resource Hub can help you navigate and discover the many rebates, funding opportunities, and other incentives including those available through the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
This new hub will continue to evolve as we add resources as they become available*, so be sure to check back frequently. You can refine your search by sector, technology, source, and type using the filters below.
The EERE Funding Opportunity Exchange is a database of available funding opportunities offered through the Department of Energy.
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy
The Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency (DSIRE) is a comprehensive source of information on incentives and policies that support renewables and energy efficiency in the United States.
Publishing Organization: NC Clean Energy Center
The Clean Energy Infrastructure Funding Opportunity Exchange is a filterable list of available funding opportunities and includes descriptions and links to applications for several IRA and BIL programs. Most of these deadlines are May-August 2023.
Publishing Organization: Office of the Under Secretary for Infrastructure
A set of curated resources to help organizations in the education sector navigate Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) funding opportunities to protect student health and learning, enhance resilience, reduce spending on infrastructure, and decrease emissions all while addressing equity and environmental justice.
Publishing Organization: Undaunted K12
This guide provides a comprehensive list of available grants and funding resources available to different sectors offered by the Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act.
Publishing Organization: U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)
The Funding Navigator provides a listing of funding opportunities under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), and others across federal agencies to support efforts to enhance climate resiliency, energy efficiency, renewable energy integration, healthy housing, workforce development and environmental justice in HUD supported communities, programs and properties.
Publishing Organization: Department of Housing and Urban Development
The Manufacturing and Energy supply chain database features funding opportunities available to industrial facilities and can be filtered by status, source, and program area.
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy
Renew America’s Schools Program promotes the implementation of clean energy improvements at K-12 public schools across the country. Applications are now open for the second round of funding for the Renew America's Schools Prize. The deadline for Phase 1 applications is June 13, 2024.
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy
This page provides information about the Energy Efficiency Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Capitalization Grant Program which offers technical assistance (TA) to support states with expanding or establishing RLF programs that meet federal requirements, optimally leverage private capital, and achieve state priorities.
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy
Learn how to apply for Home Energy Rebates, which includes the Home Efficiency Rebates and Home Electrification and Appliance Rebates. The deadline for applications is January 31, 2025.
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy
This page provides helpful information about how to apply for formula awards from the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) Program. The deadline to apply for local government is 10/31/2024; the deadline to apply for tribes is 5/31/2025.
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy
The resources on this website highlight opportunities for the real estate industry to leverage and/or access federal infrastructure funds to support sustainability, resilience, health, and real estate and economic development goals.
Publishing Organization: Urban Land Institute
This article breaks down the Inflation Reduction Act in detail, listing tax provisions for energy efficiency and sustainability initiatives.
Publishing Organization: Green Building Initiative
This resource provides factsheets on IRA and ITC funding for energy efficiency and sustainability projects.
Publishing Organization: Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships (NEEP)
This hub provides a detailed summary on funding and incentives available to states and local governments through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
Publishing Organization: National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO)
The resource provides information on financial incentives categorized by states. These may include rebates, loans, grants, or bonds for energy efficiency improvements; income tax credits and income tax deductions for individuals or businesses; and sales tax exemptions or reductions for eligible products.
Publishing Organization: American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE)
This guide is for the multifamily affordable housing market to access funds from the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. It includes a calculator to estimate benefits and tax credits.
Publishing Organization: ICAST
The Renew America’s Nonprofits grant is part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) $50 million Renew America’s Nonprofits Program, which focuses on reducing carbon emissions, improving health and safety, and lowering utilities costs at buildings owned and operated by 501(c)(3) nonprofits. The Renew America’s Nonprofits grant will support nonprofits across the country in planning and implementing energy efficiency projects. Prime Selectees will submit portfolios identifying subrecipients, efficiency projects, and a complete picture of impacts by June 2024.
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy
This resource provides information on the Rural Energy for America Program Renewable Energy Systems & Energy Efficiency Improvement Guaranteed Loans & Grants, which provides guaranteed loan financing and grant funding to agricultural producers and rural small businesses for renewable energy systems or to make energy efficiency improvements. Agricultural producers may also apply for new energy-efficient equipment and new system loans for agricultural production and processing. The program application period is open - application windows are June 30, 2024 and September 30, 2024.
Publishing Organization: The Department of Agriculture
This guidance document provides insight for State Energy Offices considering the implementation of an integrated program design for the Home Electrification and Appliance Rebates Program and their state’s Weatherization Assistance Program.
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy
The State and Community Energy Programs office provides guidelines for leveraging multiple funding sources with home energy rebates
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy
This database offered by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy lists funding opportunities for Resilient and Efficient Codes Implementation.
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy
This funding and technical assistance navigator is a gathering of public funding and technical assistance offerings available to states, local governments, schools, tribes, and community-serving organizations to help them implement high-impact, self-sustaining clean energy projects that center the needs of low-income and disadvantaged communities.
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy
The resource summarizes funding, grants, and incentives, that are available from federal and state resources.
Publishing Organization: Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance
The article provides a summary on clean energy tax credits, carbon management, and investment in low-carbon materials and buildings.
Publishing Organization: Bipartisan Policy Center
The factsheet provides a quick overview of key provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) relating to solar energy and energy storage.
Publishing Organization: Solar Energy Industries Association
This article provides in depth information about Investment Tax Credits for the nonprofit sector and guidance on the application process, bonus credits, stackable incentives. and more.
Publishing Organization: Clean Energy Group
USGBC and ASHRAE hosted a webinar discussing how to leverage Inflation Reduction Act for going green.
Publishing Organization: U.S. Green Building Council
This document provides an overview of tax provisions most relevant to existing buildings and new construction.
Publishing Organization: U.S. Green Building Council
This document provides information on how K-12 schools can access federal funding to complete green school building improvements.
Publishing Organization: U.S. Green Building Council
This Guidebook is intended to provide state and local governments with a resource to leverage Inflation Reduction Act funding to decarbonize buildings in their jurisdictions. This Guidebook provides an overview of relevant tax credits and programs, in addition to a range of strategies that leverage IRA funding to maximize overall impact.
Publishing Organization: U.S. Green Building Council
This resource dives into how the Inflation Reduction Act can be leveraged for Green Buildings projects.
Publishing Organization: U.S. Green Building Council
EPA’s new Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants program (Community Change Grants) has announced a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for approximately $2 billion dollars in Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) funds in environmental and climate justice activities to benefit disadvantaged communities through projects that reduce pollution, increase community climate resilience, and build community capacity to address environmental and climate justice challenges. The deadline to apply is November 21, 2024.
Publishing Organization: The Environmental Protection Agency
The Assisting Federal Facilities with Energy Conservation Technologies (AFFECT) program provides grants to federal agencies that they can leverage with private capital to make energy and water efficiency upgrades to federal buildings.
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy's Building Technologies Office, this prize offers up to $2 million to encourage the production of high-performance, cost-effective secondary glazing systems to improve the efficiency of commercial windows. Register for an informational webinar on February 27th and apply for the prize by June 13, 2024.
Publishing organization: Herox, The U.S. Department of Energy
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (Public Law 117-169) amended the Qualified Plug-in Electric Drive Motor Vehicle Credit (IRC 30D), now known as the Clean Vehicle Credit, and added a new requirement for final assembly in North America that took effect on August 17, 2022. Additional requirements apply for vehicles placed in service (delivered) on or after January 1, 2023, and the amount of the credit will depend on whether the vehicle meets new critical minerals and battery components requirements for vehicles placed in service after April 17, 2023.
Publishing organization: The Department of Energy
The $7.49 million Community Energy Innovation Prize is the successor of two U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) prizes related to community-based clean energy innovation: the Community Clean Energy Coalition Prize and the Inclusive Energy Innovation Prize. The Community Energy Innovation Prize aims to support local organizations with proven track records of engaging underserved communities and/or promoting environmental, climate, and energy justice as they enact community-led climate and clean energy solutions.
This document contains proposed regulations to implement the advanced manufacturing production credit established by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 to incentivize the production of eligible components within the United States.
Publishing organization: The Internal Revenue Service
DOE announced $171 million for 49 selected projects to reduce industrial greenhouse gas emissions. EERE’s Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office also announced open applications for an $83 million funding opportunity to decrease emissions from hard-to-decarbonize industrial sectors, which represent roughly 30% of total U.S. carbon emissions. Interested industry should
submit a concept paper by March 19.
Beginning January 1, 2023, this credit is available to businesses and individuals that place qualified refueling property into service during the tax year. Residential or Commercial Businesses that installed qualified vehicle refueling and recharging property in their home or business may qualify for the alternative fuel refueling property tax credit. Qualifying property will be limited to property placed in service within low-income communities or non-urban census tracts. The credit was extended and modified by the Inflation Reduction Act. The credit allowed is based on the placed-in-service date for the qualifying property.
Publishing Organization: Internal Revenue Service
This rebate program, offered by the Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains (MESC), aims to help qualified entities—such as certain domestic manufacturers, utilities, hospitals, schools, and other operators—replace qualified energy inefficient transformers with qualified energy efficient transformers. The application is free and MESC will solicit applications for rebates until the program deadline of December 8, 2023, or until funds are expended.
Publishing organization: The Department of Energy
This tax credit offers up to $5,000 per home to eligible contractors who build or substantially reconstruct qualified energy-efficient homes. The amount of the credit depends on factors including the type of home, its energy efficiency, and the date when someone buys or rents it.
Publishing Organization: The Internal Revenue Service
This tax credit is eligible for homes and units acquired on or after January 1, 2023, that meet ENERGY STAR program requirements for single-family, manufactured, and multifamily homes. The tax credit has been extended through 2032.
Publishing Organization: ENERGY STAR
This hub has a collection of resources that informs homeowners, renters, and drivers about available incentives to cut home energy costs, increase home resale value, and reduce impacts on the environment.
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy
This guidance document provides a comprehensive overview of the Title 17 program for potential borrowers seeking flexible, custom debt financing solutions, with a focus on the what, why, and how. The guidance describes eligible project types, application requirements, loan terms and conditions, and evaluation criteria.
The Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) released updated program guidance for the Title 17 Clean Energy Financing Program, which can provide a total principal amount of more than approximately $300 billion in loan guarantees for clean energy, facility decarbonization, and energy infrastructure reinvestment projects.
This policy brief describes the energy and resilience provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act that can improve affordable housing. It details the spending and tax credit provisions that directly target affordable housing, and those that are not targeted directly to affordable housing but could be leveraged to invest in the sector.
Publishing Organization: National Housing Trust
This resource center provides an in-depth interpretation of the IRA, and includes several informational webinars that explain the benefits and implementation challenges for specific sectors.
Publishing Organization: Baker Tilly