Business Energy Competitiveness 2026 Grant
Agence de la transition écologique (ADEME)
In context
This call is open to small and medium-sized businesses and large companies. Funding is a grant. Coverage is read from the notice itself: France. The funder accepts early-stage applicants.
ADEME's call for projects co-funds French businesses to measure their energy consumption, cut energy needs through efficiency and heat recovery, and replace fossil fuels with renewables such as electrification, biomethane, and green hydrogen. Eligible actions include studies and investments, but building and transport efficiency, self-consumption solar PV, and regulatory compliance work are excluded.
About this grant
This ADEME library page describes a 2025 guide summarising the industrial decarbonisation schemes available in Nouvelle-Aquitaine. The guide is a 21-page PDF, dated November 2025, published under reference Ademe 011833. It is aimed at companies and professional federations and is classified under the Energies and Industry and sustainable production themes. The guide is organised in 13 parts. It covers an overview for large enterprises and another for small and medium-sized enterprises, followed by decision-support tools. The decision-support tools include the Diag Éco-flux, Diag Décarbon'Action and Diag Écoconception diagnostics, co-run by Bpifrance and ADEME. Other parts cover the Volontariat Territorial en Entreprise (VTE) Vert scheme, training and coaching, Certificats d'Économie d'Énergie (CEE), and calls for projects such as Décarb Ind, Décarb Flash and Compétitivité Énergétique. Financing instruments are also described: the Obligation Transition and State Guarantee loan, the Prêt Vert, and the Prêt Économie d'Énergie. The guide further covers biomass boilers, fossil-fuel phase-out, green corporate power purchase agreements, the Fonds Chaleur heat fund, and low-carbon industrial demonstrators. The page itself does not set out amounts, eligibility conditions, deadlines or evaluation methods for the individual schemes. Those details sit in the PDF, which is downloadable only after the visitor supplies an email address.
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Eligibility
The guide is written for industrial companies in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, with separate sections for large enterprises and for small and medium-sized enterprises, and it is also addressed to professional federations. The page does not state eligibility rules for the individual schemes it lists.
Key requirements
- ✓Applicant must be a business (entreprise) operating in France seeking to reduce fossil energy dependence
- ✓Eligible projects: energy consumption audits or studies, energy-need reduction (performance, heat recovery), or substitution of fossil energy with renewables
- ✓Excluded: transport efficiency, building energy efficiency, rooftop PV for self-consumption, and projects driven by regulatory compliance
Frequently asked questions
- How much funding does Agence de la transition écologique (ADEME) offer?
- Business Energy Competitiveness offers Variable selon projet.
- When is the Business Energy Competitiveness deadline?
- Applications close 31 Dec 2026.
- Who can apply for Business Energy Competitiveness?
- Eligibility covers organisations in FR; sme, large-company. See the eligibility criteria above for the full conditions.
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About this sector
Industrial decarbonisation funding helps heavy industry cut emissions through electrification, fuel switching, process change and efficiency. Support is often capital-intensive and tied to a specific site, with feasibility studies leading to larger deployment calls. Applicants need emissions baselines, engineering studies and a plan to keep production running during the change.
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