Renewable Energy grants — page 7
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Renewable energy is the largest sustainability sector by funding volume, most public-sector climate spend flows here, directly (CfD auctions, IRA tax credits, EU Innovation Fund) or indirectly (grid, storage, transmission). For founders, the non-dilutive opportunities cluster in earlier-stage tech (next-gen PV, floating offshore, enhanced geothermal, perovskites) and in deployment-support for harder-to-finance projects. Listed below are the open renewable energy grant calls in that landscape, taken from each funder's own notice and re-checked on every refresh.
Energy grants divide into two families that rarely share a form. Deployment pots such as the EU Innovation Fund, the US Department of Energy and the UK Net Zero Innovation Portfolio back kit that already works, usually at 30 to 50 per cent intervention rates against matched private capital. Earlier research calls, Horizon Europe and ARPA-E and Innovate UK among them, fund lower technology readiness at far smaller cheques. Applying to the wrong family is the most common reason a strong project scores badly.
This page lists open renewable energy grants currently tracked by Raise Lens — 1,203 of them right now, sorted with the soonest deadline first. Every listing has been classified against the sustainability taxonomy rather than matched on keywords, so what appears here is renewable energy work rather than anything whose description happens to mention it.
The funders publishing renewable energy grants here include AfDB Procurement Notices, NSF, Environment Agency, among 2 others. Who is funding matters as much as what: eligibility, reporting burden and the realistic timeline to a decision vary far more between funders than between individual calls.
Geographic coverage on this page spans AFRICA, SUBSAHARAN-AFRICA, GLOBAL-SOUTH, ASIA, LATAM. Eligibility is usually tied to where the work happens or where the applying organisation is registered, and the two are not always the same — worth checking before investing time in an application.
Concessional financing for development in least-developed African countries
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The African Development Fund provides concessional financing for development projects and programs in least-developed African countries, with explicit support for poverty reduction and economic/social development across agriculture, climate, education, energy, and governance sectors. Eligible activities include technical assistance, capacity-building, and studies alongside project implementation.
Solar, Heliospheric, and INterplanetary Environment (SHINE)
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SHINE funds research on solar energy production, particle acceleration, and magnetic field transport through the heliosphere to improve understanding and predictive capabilities of space weather and solar phenomena. The program supports university and research institution teams conducting fundamental science aligned with community workshop topics.
Form: Application for new ground source or surface water source heating and cooling scheme: part B8
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This is an application form for obtaining an environmental permit and full abstraction licence from the UK the funder for ground source or surface water source heating and cooling schemes. It is for organisations planning to deploy renewable heating/cooling infrastructure that requires regulatory approval.
Nature-Inspired Computation
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This grant funds research and development of nature-inspired computing paradigms (neuromorphic, bio-inspired algorithms, etc.) to achieve radical improvements in AI energy efficiency and performance with limited data. It targets researchers and innovators developing alternative computational approaches that move beyond traditional scaling methods.
Apply to generate energy offshore
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This grant supports the licensing and permitting process for offshore renewable energy generation stations in UK waters, administered by the funder. Eligible applicants are developers and operators seeking to deploy offshore wind, tidal, or wave energy infrastructure.
Energy Transition
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Enabel supports the transition to sustainable energy systems as part of climate action and green economy development. The grant targets organizations working on energy transition, renewable energy deployment, and climate mitigation in developing countries where Enabel operates.
Hessen SolarCup
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An educational competition for young people in Northern Hesse that promotes solar energy training and awareness through hands-on learning. The grant funds a youth-focused initiative to build skills and knowledge in renewable energy.
Solar Off-Grid Corazon Creek, Belize
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This grant funds deployment of solar off-grid electrification systems for the Corazon Creek community in Belize, using the funder's smart solar approach. It targets rural communities lacking grid access to achieve energy access through renewable energy infrastructure.
Solar E-Longtail Boat, Thailand
••••• Foundation
This grant funds the development and deployment of solar-powered electric longtail boats in Thailand to provide sustainable water transport in rural areas. It targets organizations working on renewable energy and sustainable mobility solutions in underserved communities.
Solar-powered bio-farming project in Matam, Senegal
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This grant funds a solar-powered bio-farming project in Senegal's Matam region that integrates renewable energy generation with agricultural development to benefit rural communities. It targets organizations working at the intersection of clean energy deployment and sustainable food production in sub-Saharan Africa.
Solar Power Plant for Mlomp, Senegal
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This grant funds the installation of a stand-alone photovoltaic solar power plant to electrify the rural community of Mlomp in Senegal. The project aims to provide reliable electricity access and enable local economic development in an underserved region.
Smart Solar Systems for La Gracia, Belize
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This grant funds deployment of smart solar off-grid systems in rural Belize to provide clean energy access and support local economic development. It targets rural communities and organizations working on renewable energy infrastructure and rural development.
EU Climate Partnership Project Funding
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EUKI finances cross-border climate projects across European countries, supporting initiatives that advance climate action through energy transition, sustainable mobility, just transition, carbon removal, and climate policy. The fund supports projects ranging from knowledge transfer and institutional anchoring to measurable CO₂ reduction outcomes.
Scientific Research
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This grant supports scientific research and teaching in health, medicine, energy, and climate change. It is open to researchers and institutions working across these interconnected fields, with particular emphasis on energy transition and climate mitigation.
Challenge Funds
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SIDA's Challenge Funds is a competitive grant mechanism supporting private sector and other partners to develop innovative solutions that advance sustainable development goals. The fund targets breakthrough ideas and business models with potential for scalable impact across development and sustainability sectors.
Research and Development Projects
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This grant funds innovative research and development projects that address environmental and conservation challenges while supporting Hong Kong's transition to carbon neutrality. It is open to organizations developing solutions in climate research and green innovation sectors.
Global Innovation Challenge 2025
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A global competition for youth-led startups and impact projects that deliver measurable social or environmental outcomes, offering grants up to $15,000 plus founder support and network access. Eligible projects span social entrepreneurship, environment, education, health, energy, and agriculture sectors.
Energy Transition
••••• Foundation
This grant funds early-stage scientific research, entrepreneurial ventures, and policy initiatives focused on transforming energy generation, delivery, and consumption. Eligible applicants include researchers, startups, and policy organizations working on energy transition solutions.
Climate Change: Seed funding for projects addressing climate action, including scientific research, entrepreneurial ventures, and policy work
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Seed funding for early-stage climate action innovations, research, entrepreneurial projects, and policy work, ranging from 10,000–100,000 CHF annually. Open to startups, researchers, social enterprises, and policy organizations working across climate mitigation, adaptation, and related sustainability domains.
Compact Program
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The Compact Program provides large-scale, multi-year grants (typically 5 years) to eligible low- and lower-middle-income countries to reduce poverty through economic growth and infrastructure development. Funding targets institutional reforms and capital projects in water, transport, energy, education, and agriculture sectors.
Green Youth Upskilling Programme
••••• Foundation
This grant programme awards funding to young innovators developing climate-sensitive and sustainable innovations, with recent cohorts receiving ₦20 million distributed among 10 recipients. It targets early-stage entrepreneurs and innovators focused on sustainability and climate solutions.
Environment & Sustainability
••••• Foundation
This grant supports projects advancing sustainable use of water, earth, fire, and air—including clean water access, renewable energy, and future-oriented agriculture. It targets nonprofits, social enterprises, and research institutions working on environmental sustainability and resource management.
Raw Materials for the Energy Transition Initiative
••••• Foundation
This grant funds sustainable sourcing, processing, and use of critical raw materials (lithium, cobalt, rare earths, etc.) essential for renewable energy and energy-transition technologies. It targets organizations working on circular economy, responsible mining, material efficiency, and supply-chain sustainability in the energy sector.
Green Start-up: Funding programme targeted at green start-ups working on environmentally innovative solutions
••••• Foundation
This is a funding programme from the funder that supports green start-ups developing environmentally innovative solutions. Applicants can apply through a dedicated process to receive financial promotion for cleantech and sustainable product ventures.
Art + Energy Camp
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An educational youth programme where participants engage in hands-on creative activities with solar technology and renewable energy systems. The grant funds educational camps targeting young learners interested in clean energy innovation.
Solar Mural Artworks
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This programme commissions artists to design and install solar murals that generate clean electricity while functioning as public art on buildings and infrastructure. It targets artists and creative practitioners who can integrate renewable energy generation with community-facing public art installations.
LAGI Open Call Competitions
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LAGI invites multidisciplinary teams (artists, designers, engineers, planners) to compete in international open-call design competitions for public artworks that generate renewable energy. Winners receive recognition and potential commissioning; past competitions have attracted nearly 2,000 submissions from 80+ countries across eight global locations.
2025 Fiji Renewable Energy Art Design Competition
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LAGI 2025 Fiji is a design competition seeking innovative renewable energy artworks that generate clean energy while delivering community benefits in collaboration with the Village of Marou. The competition is open to artists, designers, and innovators who can integrate sustainable energy generation with artistic and social impact.
A multilateral climate fund for Africa
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The Africa Climate Change Fund provides small grants to African governments, NGOs, and regional institutions to support climate-resilient, low-carbon development, including NDC implementation, capacity-building for climate finance access, and small-scale adaptation and mitigation projects. The fund prioritizes gender equality and inclusion of vulnerable communities across climate action.
R&D Fund – First Open Call
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This grant funds innovative off-grid and weak-grid appliance technologies designed to improve energy access and social inclusion in underserved communities. It supports R&D and product development for appliances that work reliably without grid connection or with unreliable grid supply.
R&D Fund – Agritech Call
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This is an open R&D funding call from the funder targeting agricultural technology solutions that improve energy access and productive use appliances for farming communities. The fund supports innovation at the intersection of agritech, energy access, and farm-level mechanization.
VeraSol: An evolved quality assurance programme designed to meet the growing needs of the off-grid solar energy market
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VeraSol is an evolved quality assurance programme for off-grid solar energy products, building on Lighting Global standards and Equip Data. It targets manufacturers, distributors, and market actors in the off-grid solar sector seeking product certification and market credibility.
Global LEAP Awards
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Global LEAP Awards recognizes and supports the most energy-efficient off-grid appliances and technologies, funding deployment and scaling of proven solutions. The programme targets manufacturers, innovators, and organizations developing or distributing efficient off-grid energy products for energy access in underserved markets.
Efficiency for Access Design Challenge
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A design challenge programme that funds innovative appliance design specifically for off-grid and energy-poor communities. It targets entrepreneurs and designers developing energy-efficient or renewable-powered appliances to improve energy access in underserved regions.
Energy & Materials
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The funder invests up to $1M in early-stage technology innovators working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and accelerate decarbonization across renewable energy, transportation electrification, building/industrial efficiency, materials innovation, and carbon capture. Applicants should be scaling technologies with clear climate impact potential.
Planet Goal - Boosting innovation
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Planet Goal supports innovation projects that advance environmental and sustainable development goals, with a focus on environmental sustainability and innovation. The grant is open to organizations developing solutions aligned with UN sustainable development objectives.
Young Africa: Promoting youth employment in the green economy in Mozambique
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This grant promotes youth employment opportunities in Mozambique's green economy sector. It targets young people seeking careers in renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, environmental conservation, and related climate-positive industries.
We Care Solar
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We Care Solar provides solar lighting systems to healthcare facilities in Malawi and Tanzania to improve maternal and child health outcomes by enabling safe delivery and post-natal care. The grant targets organizations working to reduce maternal and child mortality through clean energy access in sub-Saharan Africa.
Barefoot College Latin America
••••• Foundation
This grant funds skills training and enterprise development to empower women to deploy clean energy solutions in rural Guatemalan communities. It targets women entrepreneurs and community organizations working on renewable energy access and economic empowerment in underserved regions.
Women entrepreneurs delivering clean energy to remote communities in Tanzania
••••• Foundation
This grant funds women entrepreneurs in Tanzania who are deploying clean energy solutions to remote communities. It supports renewable energy business models that combine energy access with women's economic empowerment.
Sustainable Development and Climate II - West Bank (SDCII-WB)
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A competitive grant programme supporting sustainable development and climate-related infrastructure investments in West Bank municipalities. Eligible applicants are local government units seeking to fund climate adaptation, renewable energy, water, waste management, and other environmental projects.
NGO Project Funding
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This grant funds NGO-led energy access projects in developing countries, providing capital, equipment, and technical expertise for renewable energy deployment. The funder connects applicants with renewable energy sector partners to accelerate clean energy adoption in underserved regions.
Skills Sponsorship
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This grant funds renewable energy sector professionals to provide pro-bono expertise and technical support to NGO projects through skills-based sponsorship. It targets NGOs working on energy access and capacity-building in the renewable energy sector.
Material Donation
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Renewable energy companies donate equipment and materials to NGO-led energy access projects in developing regions. This is an in-kind funding mechanism enabling NGOs to deploy renewable energy infrastructure without capital expenditure.
Financial Donation
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Companies in the renewable energy sector provide financial donations to support NGO-led energy access projects in developing countries. This is a donation-based funding mechanism for organizations working to expand clean energy access in the Global South.
Bringing Renewable Energy to Scale
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This grant funds efforts to accelerate the deployment and adoption of renewable energy technologies at scale, including solar installations and clean energy advocacy initiatives. It targets organizations working to advance renewable energy adoption and policy.
Reducing Our Reliance on Coal
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This grant supports campaigns and research projects aimed at reducing coal consumption and accelerating the transition away from coal-fired power generation. It is open to organizations working on energy transition, fossil fuel phase-out, and related advocacy or research.
Energy Insights and Innovation Lab
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This grant supports research on energy access and innovation to inform energy policy in developing countries. It targets researchers and institutions working on energy solutions in the Global South.