Deadline: January 31, 2025
Award Amount: Noncompetitive- for severely capacity constrained organizations, $75,000, 1 year; Tier I Assessment, 1 year project, $150,000; Tier II Planning – 1-2 year project $250,000; Tier III Development – 3 year project $350,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Non-profit community based organizations
Description: The Transformative Environmental Awards for Members of Underserved Populations (TEAM UP) Grants Program of the Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice at Texas Southern University in Partnership with Achieving Community Tasks Successfully (ACTS) as the Region 6 Grantmaker for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grant Program ( U.S. EPA TCGP) , is accepting grant applications in response to this Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA). A total of $40 Million will be granted over three years (2025-2027) in the region 6 geography of focus: Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana. A minimum of 80% of awarded projects will serve underserved and disadvantaged communities. A planned total of 244 grant awards will be made: 97 in year one, 97 in year two, and 50 in year three. Applications for the first application cycle will be open from December 18, 2024 – January 31, 2025 at 11:59 pm. Submitted applications will be reviewed following the close of the open application cycle , with decisions and funding issued as soon as possible following the cycle and within 6 months from the time of proposal submission.

Deadline: January 31, 2025
Award Amount: $50,000 prize for Phase 1; $100,000 for phase 2; Up to $300,000 for Phase 3
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Coalitions
Description: DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is launching the Good Jobs in Clean Energy Prize under the umbrella of the American-Made Challenges Program.6 To inform the scope of the Prize, EERE hosted four workshops focusing on how DOE could help ensure that the momentous investments in clean energy result in high-quality, accessible careers for all populations. The workshops engaged 281 stakeholders from across 31 states, spanning organized labor, community-based organizations, clean energy businesses, trade groups, local government, public agencies, and education and workforce providers. Input from these workshops confirmed the need and support for this Prize.
Through the Good Jobs in Clean Energy Prize, DOE seeks to:
1. Identify and support new and newly focused placed-based coalitions that will help ensure clean energy jobs created in communities are high quality and accessible to target populations.
2. Increase long-term engagement of relevant place-based coalitions serving target populations with clean energy employment opportunities.
3. Further develop place-based strategies consistent with DOE’s job quality and DEIA priorities in clean energy (including implementation of the Justice40 Initiative7) and EERE’s focus on implementing clean energy technologies equitably.
Coalitions must be five-member partnerships, at minimum, consisting of at least one entity from each of the following:
(1) Labor Organization: A single or multiple union local(s), an association of labor unions (e.g., a local or state Building and Construction Trades Council, a local or regional Central Labor Council, or a State Federation of Labor), or a combination of different labor organizations.
(2) Clean energy employer: Any public or private entity that employs workers in a clean energy sector.
(3) Community-based organization: A membership-based, non-governmental organization that represents the target population or a non-governmental organization with a track record of working with and serving the target population.
(4) Public agency: A governmental entity involved in implementing clean energy programs (e.g., a city or county sustainability office or a state energy office), a governmental entity involved in economic and workforce development (e.g., a local or state workforce investment/development board), a governmental entity involved in delivering public assistance programs (e.g., a county or state social service agency that provides financial assistance for food, housing, childcare, etc.).
(5) Education and workforce training provider: A public or private institution or organization that delivers workforce education and training services focused on middle-skill occupations (e.g., community colleges, adult high schools, registered apprenticeship programs, or apprenticeship readiness programs).

Deadline: February 2, 2025
Award Amount: Up to $275,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: (1) Owners/Operators of a utility scale ESS or a facility sited ESS that is 100 kW or greater in size, such as those used to support commercial, industrial, and public service facilities, (2) a host site entity with access to a utility scale or facility sited ESS that is 100 kW or greater in size,(3) an entity with an agreement to access a utility scale or facility sited ESS that is 100 kW or greater in size.
Description: Blue-Sky Training Program for Grid Scale Energy Storage Systems aims to enhance community safety for utilities with Energy Storage Systems. As storage technologies continue to be deployed, it is critical that communities are storage ready and that necessary stakeholders are brought to the table to ensure a new or existing Energy Storage Systems will operate safely and reliably. In localities across the country, uncertainty over proper response procedures to security threats and unanticipated failures of Energy Storage Systems can delay or even prevent deployment.

Deadline: February 6, 2025
Award Amount: $100,000 to $2,500,000
Match: 10% with option to request cost share reduction to 0%
Eligible Entities: (1) an Indian Tribe; (2) Intertribal Organization; or (3) Tribal Energy Development Organization
Description: Under this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), the DOE Office of Indian Energy is soliciting applications from Indian Tribes, which include Alaska Native Regional Corporations and Village Corporations, Intertribal Organizations, and Tribal Energy Development Organizations to: (1) Conduct clean energy planning (Topic Area 1); (2) Comprehensively assess the feasibility and viability of deploying clean energy technology (Topic Area 2); or, (3) Conduct clean energy design and development activities (Topic Area 3).

Deadline: February 6, 2025
Award Amount: $250,000 – $1,000,000
Match: Leveraging other sources of funding considered in selection criteria
Eligible Entities: Small Businesses in New Mexico
Description: This is a competitive state-funded grant that awards non-dilutive funds to proposals in advanced energy innovation and commercialization from New Mexico small businesses engaged in research and development. The grant seeks to assist early-stage companies with strong growth potential that are developing a unique product.

Deadline: Concept paper February 27, 2025, Full application August 28, 2025
Award Amount: $2,000,000 to $50,000,000
Match: 5% to 50% depending on applicant and project type
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Nonprofits, & Small Businesses
Description: Rural and remote areas often have higher energy costs and burden, less resilient energy systems, and fewer alternatives for accessing clean energy compared with their urban counterparts. Furthermore, small communities do not always have the available time, money, or other resources to pursue clean energy options. This program serves communities of 10,000 people or fewer. Applicants must propose projects that support at least one of these eligible activities: A. Improving overall cost-effectiveness of energy generation, transmission, or distribution systems; B. Siting or upgrading transmission and distribution lines; C. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from energy generation in rural or remote areas; D. Providing or modernizing electric generation facilities; E. Developing microgrids; and F. Increasing energy efficiency.

Deadline: March 14, 2025
Award Amount: $5,000,000 to $20,000,000
Match: 50% non-federal cost share
Eligible Entities: State, Tribal Governments or, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Small Businesses
Description: This funding opportunity seeks to provide funding to improve public safety and victim services in tribal communities. This provides federally recognized tribes and tribal consortia an opportunity to apply for funding to aid in developing a comprehensive and coordinated approach to public safety. Many of DOJ’s existing tribal government-specific programs are included in and available through this single coordinated funding opportunity.

Deadline: March 31, 2025
Award Amount: Maximum $1,000,000 for Renewable Energy Systems and $500,000 for energy efficiency improvements
Match: Yes, depends on funding type
Eligible Entities: Small Businesses must meet SBA size standards. Agricultural Producers are also eligible including Tribal organizations.
Description: The Rural Business Cooperative Service (RBCS or the Agency), a Rural Development (RD) agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is issuing a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to announce acceptance of grant, guaranteed loan, and combined grant and guaranteed loan applications under the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP). This notice announces the deadlines, dates, and times that applications must be received in order to be considered for REAP funds. The NOFO is being issued for Fiscal Years (FY) 2025, 2026, and 2027.

Deadline:  May 31, 2025
Award Amount:  $225 million – program will provide up to $14,000 per eligible household.
Description:  Under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the U.S. Department of Energy Tribal Home Electrification and Appliance Rebates program will provide funding in non-competitive formula allocations to Indian Tribes and Alaska Native Corporations to develop, implement, and subsidize residential energy efficiency, electrification, and appliance upgrade projects.

Deadline: TBD
Award Amount: TBD
Match: TBD
Eligible Entities: Community-based organizations, community colleges, and other training providers
Description: ConnectWerx, a Partnership Intermediary of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in collaboration with the Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) will establish a Solar Workforce Technical Assistance Program to support effective workforce training programs for careers in solar energy. The program will facilitate partnership building and peer-to-peer learning opportunities and provide training resources, technical assistance, and funding to encourage the identification and adoption of best practices for solar training programs. With funding of around $8,000,000, DOE expects to make 1-3 larger award(s) to national non-profit organizations with expertise in solar workforce development to establish the program, and subsequently to make multiple smaller awards to community-based organizations, community colleges, and other training providers to participate in the program.

Deadline:  Ongoing
Amount:  Loans of up to 30 years at a fixed, below-market interest rates 
Eligible Entities:  Municipal and Community Water Systems
Description:  For water projects that are shovel ready, local government agencies can access to millions of dollars in low interest loans and even get some grant funding depending on median household income levels.