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Funding and Incentives Resource Hub

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Looking to implement energy efficiency upgrades, renewable energy projects, or other initiatives? The Funding and Incentives Resource Hub can help you navigate and discover the many rebates, funding opportunities, and other incentives available.

This 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.

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Sector:
Commercial, Data Center, Education, Financial Services, Industrial, Local Government, Multifamily, Residential, State Government, Utility

The EERE Funding Opportunity Exchange is a database of available funding opportunities offered through the Department of Energy.
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy

Sector:
Commercial

The U.S. Department of Energy released the 179D Portal, which hosts two free tools to estimate potential federal tax deductions for installing eligible energy-efficient technologies in commercial buildings. The 179D Portal streamlines the evaluation process for estimating potential energy savings and tax deductions for the traditional compliance pathway and for the alternative compliance pathway for qualifying upgrades beginning in tax year 2023. 
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy

Sector:
Commercial, Data Center, Education, Financial Services, Industrial, Local Government, Multifamily, Residential, State Government, Utility

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

Sector:
Commercial

Section 179D of the Internal Revenue Code (hereafter referred to as 179D) provides federal tax deductions for placing in service (installing) eligible energy-efficient property in commercial buildings. Learn more about the two pathways to pursue a 179D tax deduction.
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy

Sector:
Industrial

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

Sector:
State Government, Local Government

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)

Sector:
Local Government, State Government

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)

Sector:
Multifamily, Residential, State Government, Utility, Commercial, Data Center, Education, Financial Services, Industrial, Local Government

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
 

Sector:
Local Government, Education, Commercial

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

Sector:
Commercial, Data Center, Education, Financial Services, Industrial, Local Government, Multifamily, Residential, State Government, Utility

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

Sector:
Industrial, Commercial

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

Sector:
Commercial, Multifamily, Residential

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

Sector:
Multifamily

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

Sector:
Residential

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

Sector:
Commercial

The 179D commercial buildings energy efficiency tax deduction is a permanent tax deduction for making energy efficiency improvements to interior lighting, heating, cooling, ventilation, water heating, and building envelope systems in commercial buildings. Eligible recipients include commercial building owners, and for certain tax-exempt entities, the person primarily responsible for the design of the upgrades. Learn more in the 179D portal.
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy

Sector:
Industrial

The Credit for Carbon Oxide Sequestration provides a tax credit for carbon dioxide sequestration coupled with permitted end uses. Available to US facilities with minimum volumes: 1,000 metric tons of CO2 per year for direct air capture facilities, and 18,750 metric tons for electricity-generating facilities.
Publishing Organization: The Internal Revenue Service

Sector:
Industrial

Domestic Manufacturing Conversion Grants will provide cost-shared grants supporting the domestic production of efficient hybrid, plug-in electric hybrid, plug-in electric drive, and hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles. Recipients should be manufacturing for eligible vehicle types. 
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy

Sector:
Industrial

Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Loan Program provides loans to support the manufacture of eligible advanced technology vehicles and components, including light-, medium-, and heavy-duty vehicles, locomotives, and maritime vessels. Eligible recipeints must be located in the United States and manufacture eligible vehicles or components that are used in eligible vehicles, among other criteria. 
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy

Sector:
Industrial

The Advanced Manufacturing Production Credit provides a production tax credit for domestic manufacturing of components for solar and wind energy, inverters, battery components, and critical minerals. Base credit varies by technology; cannot stack with 48C credit.
Publishing Organization: The Internal Revenue Service

Sector:
Industrial

This program establishes a research, development, demonstration, commercialization, and deployment program for purposes of commercialization to improve efficiency, increase durability, and reduce the cost of producing clean hydrogen using electrolyzers. Funding is available until all resources are expended.
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy

Sector:
Multifamily

The Multifamily Housing Loan Guarantees Program works with qualified private-sector lenders to provide financing to qualified borrowers to increase affordable housing in rural areas and towns with less than 35,000 people, along with federally recognized tribes. This opportunity is currently open and accepts applications on a continuous basis.
Publishing Organization: U.S. Department of Agriculture

Sector:
Industrial

High Performance Computing for Advanced Manufacturing provides industry partners with access to and support using high-performance computing (HPC) resources to expedite the development of energy-efficient manufacturing processes, saving energy, reducing emissions, boosting competitiveness, and building global technology leadership.
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy

Sector:
Industrial

Energy systems and energy management software tools help manufacturers increase energy efficiency at the plant level and in specific systems. This resource serves as a hub of downloadable tools for identifying opportunities, monitoring progress, and improving efficiency in any facility.
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy

Sector:
Industrial

Energy Management Systems is a set of practices and tools that track energy use, inform decision-making, and implementation practices, and encourage continued improvement in energy performance and cost savings. This source provides information on how organizations achieve energy management targets under the ISO 50001 energy management standard.
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy

Sector:
Commercial, Industrial

The American-Made program is funded by the Department of Energy and is a collection of prize competitions intended to incentivize entrepreneurial leadership and innovation in the clean energy revolution and connect the nation’s entrepreneurs and innovators to America’s national labs and the private sector.
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy

Sector:
Industrial

The Energy Storage Demonstration and Pilot Grant Program is designed to enter into agreements to carry out 3 energy storage system demonstration projects. 
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy

Sector:
Industrial

The Clean Hydrogen Manufacturing Recycling Program is designed to provide federal financial assistance to advance new clean hydrogen production, processing, delivery, storage, and use of equipment manufacturing technologies and techniques.
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy

Sector:
Industrial

The Critical Material Innovation, Efficiency, and Alternatives Program is designated to conduct a program of research, development, demonstration, and commercialization to develop alternatives to critical materials, to promote their efficient production and use, and ensure a long-term and sustainable supply of them.
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy

Sector:
Commercial, Education, Industrial, Local Government, State Government, Utility

The Battery Materials Processing Grants Program provides grants for battery materials processing to ensure that the United States has a viable battery materials processing industry. Funds can also be used to expand our domestic capabilities in battery manufacturing and enhance processing capacity. Eligible projects include demonstration projects, construction of commercial-scale facilities, and retrofitting existing battery material processing facilities.
Publishing Organization: The U.S. Department of Energy

Sector:
Commercial, Education, Financial Services, Industrial, Local Government, State Government

The DOE Loan Programs cover several types of programs including Title XVII Loan Guarantee Program under Section 1703 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which uses federal loan guarantees to fund commercial use in the U.S. or improved technologies on energy projects that avoid, reduce, or sequester air pollutants or greenhouse gas emissions and employ new or significantly improved technologies compared to commercial technologies in service in the U.S, The Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing program under Section 136 of EISA2007, which issues loans to vehicle and part manufacturers for the cost of re-equipping, expanding, or establishing manufacturing facilities in the United States, and the Tribal Energy Loan Guarantee Program, which is a partial loan guarantee program that provides loans to support economic opportunities to tribes for energy development projects.
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy

Sector:
Industrial

The Commercial Direct Air Capture Technology Prize Competition is for qualified direct air capture facilities which are those that (1) use carbon capture equipment to capture carbon dioxide from the ambient air and (2) captures more than 50,000 metric tons of qualified carbon dioxide annually. The prizes are given for metric tons of qualified carbon dioxide captured and verified at the point of disposal, injection, or utilization. Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy

Sector:
Commercial, Data Center, Education, Financial Services, Industrial, Local Government, Multifamily, Residential, State Government, Utility

This source provides resources to help potential applicants better understand programs provided by the Loan Programs Office. It provides overview materials as well as deep dives into more specific topics including tribal energy, innovative, fossil energy, nuclear, other innovative clean energies, and advanced transportation.
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy

Sector:
Industrial, Local Government, State Government, Utility

The Preventing Outages and Enhancing the Resilience of the Electric Grid Grants program provides grants to industry, States, and Tribes. The eligible grid resilience, utility, and industry recipients include: electric grid operators, electricity generators, transmission owners and operators, distribution providers, and fuel suppliers. 

Grid Resilience State and Tribal Formula Grants – The U.S. Department of Energy expects to issue the fiscal year (FY) 2025 Administrative and Legal Requirements Document (ALRD) in FY25 Q2.

Grid Resilience Utility and Industry Grants - The U.S. Department of Energy expects to launch a third round of funding in 2025.
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy

Sector:
Education, State Government, Utility

The Pumped Storage Hydropower Wind and Solar Integration and System Reliability Initiative is designed to provide financial assistance to eligible entities to carry out project design, transmission studies, power market assessments, and permitting for a pumped storage hydropower project to facilitate the long-duration storage of intermittent renewable electricity.
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy

Sector:
Industrial

The Industrial Training and Assessment Center Program advances a clean energy and manufacturing workforce to represent the diversity of the United States. The program has grown to five new Regional Centers of Excellence and is creating new ITACs at community colleges, trade schools, and union training programs to increase access to energy careers. The opportunity is open now to small and medium sized manufacturers. 
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy

Sector:
Commercial, Data Center, Education, Financial Services, Industrial, Local Government, Multifamily, Residential, State Government, Utility

The Extended Product System Rebates Program is designed to provide rebates for qualified extended product systems (i.e., electric motor, electronic control, and driven load). This resource also provides an implementation guide.
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy 

Sector:
Local Government, State Government

The Grid Resilience State and Tribal Formula Grant Program provides information on how to secure funding to strengthen and modernize America's power grid against wildfires, extreme weather, and other natural disasters that are exacerbated by the climate crisis. This resource is intended for State and Tribal governments seeking to build and increase resilience in their community. 
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy

Sector:
Industrial, State Government

State Manufacturing Leadership (Sec 40534) is a funding opportunity for states to invest in smart manufacturing technologies. Eligible uses include facilitating access to high-performance computing resources for small-medium manufacturers.
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy

Sector:
Commercial, Data Center, Education, Financial Services, Industrial, Local Government, Multifamily, Residential, State Government, Utility

The 25C: Energy Efficient Home Improvement Credit is a resource that provides information on tax credits available for businesses for energy-related projects. 
Publishing organization: The Internal Revenue Service
 

Sector:
Industrial

Solar Photovoltaic manufacturers are eligible for two tax credits, the first, 45X MPTC, provides tax credits for each clean energy component domestically produced, while the second, 48C ITC, provides a tax credit for purchasing and commissioning property to build an industrial or manufacturing facility. The 45X MPTC was established and the 48C ITC was expanded through IRA and will last through 2032, with decreasing funding starting in 2030.
Publishing Organization: The Department of Energy

Sector:
Residential

The New Energy Efficient Homes Credit provides a $2,000 credit to eligible contractors for qualified new energy-efficient homes sold or leased between 2021-2033. The Form 8908 can be used by eligible contractors to claim the credit for each energy-efficient home sold or leased to another person during the tax year for use as a residence.
Publishing Organization: The Internal Revenue Service