Federal Funding and Comment Opportunities - Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)
The table below includes both federal funding and comment opportunities.
Funding: opportunity to submit applications for loan or grant funding.
Comment: opportunity to submit opinions on federal programs or initiatives.
| Opportunity Title | IIJA or IRA | Status | Eligible Entities | DEEP Submissions |
| BIL: Renew America's Nonprofits - Fundings | IIJA | Open | Non-profit 501(c)(3) organizations as described in §501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt from tax under §501(a) of such Code. Additionally, all renovations, repairs, or installations under this provision must be performed on building(s) owned and operated by a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization(s) | |
| Loan Guarantees for Clean Energy Projects - Comment | IRA | Open | Interested Parties | |
| Grid Resilience State/Tribal Formula Grant Program - Funding | IIJA | Open for tribes / Closed for states & territories | States, territories and tribes | DEEP RFI |
| FY 2023 Natural Gas Distribution Infrastructure and Safety Modernization Grant - Funding | IIJA | Open | Municipality- or community-owned utilities, not including for-profit entities, needing assistance in repairing, rehabilitating, or replacing high-risk, leak-prone natural gas distribution infrastructure, or in acquiring equipment to reduce incidents and fatalities and avoid economic losses | |
| FY 2023 Competitive Funding Opportunity: Passenger Ferry Grant Program - Funding | IIJA | Open | Passenger Ferry Program: designated recipients as defined in FTA Circular “Urbanized Area Formula Program: Program Guidance and Application Instructions” (FTA.C.9030.1E) and direct recipients of FTA’s Urbanized Area Formula Grants, as well as public entities engaged in providing public transportation passenger ferry service in urban areas that are eligible to be direct recipients. Rural Ferry Program: States and Territories in which eligible service is operated. Eligible service is described in the NOFO. Applicants must not have attributed data to an urbanized area in their most recent report to the National Transit Database for their ferry services. |
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| Industrial Decarbonization and Emissions Reduction Demonstration-to-Deployment - Funding (f/k/a - Industrial Demonstration Program) | IIJA and IRA | Open | For-profit organizations and owners or operators of a domestic, non-federal nonpower industrial or manufacturing facility engaged in energy intensive industrial processes as stated in the areas of interest | |
| Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) Renewable Energy Systems and Energy Efficiency Improvement Guaranteed Loans and Grants - Funding | IRA | Open | Agricultural producers with at least 50 percent of their gross income coming from agricultural operations; Small businesses in eligible rural areas | |
| Energy Efficiency Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) - Funding | IIJA | Open | Local governments, states and tribes | |
| Clean Hydrogen Electrolysis, Manufacturing, and Recycling - Funding | IIJA | Open | Institutions of higher education, for-profit entities, non-profit entities, state and local governmental entities, and tribal nations | |
| Section 243 Hydroelectric Efficiency Improvement Incentives - Funding | IIJA | Open | Owner or authorized operator of a hydroelectric facility at an existing dam | |
| Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) Pilot Demonstrations - Funding | IIJA | Open | Industry, national labs, institutes of higher education, multi-institutional collaborations, Indian Tribes and local communities | |
| Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: Advanced Energy Manufacturing and Recycling Grant Program (§40209) - Funding | IIJA | Open | Projects must occur in census tracts where: (a) coal mines have closed since December 1, 1999; (b) coal-fired power plant units have closed since December 31, 2009; or (c) in census tracts immediately adjacent to a or b. | |
| State Manufacturing Leadership Program - Funding | IIJA | Open | Institutions of higher education, for-profit entities, non-profit entities, state and local governmental entities, and tribal nations. | |
| Joint Office of Energy and Transportation Ride and Drive Electric, Fiscal Year 2023 - Funding | IIJA | Open | Institutions of higher education, for-profit entities, non-profit entities, state and local governmental entities, Indian tribes, incorporated consortia, and unincorporated consortia | |
| Climate-Smart Agriculture - Funding | IRA | Open | Agricultural producers and forest landowners | |
| Qualifying Advanced Energy Project Credit (48C) program - Funding | IRA | Open | ||
| Carbon Capture Large-Scale Pilot Projects - Funding | IIJA | Open | Institutions of higher education, non-profit entities, for-profit entities, tribal nations, state and local governmental entities, incorporated consortia, and unincorporated consortia | |
| Energy Improvement in Rural or Remote Areas - Funding | IIJA | Open | Institutions of higher education, non-profit entities, for-profit entities, tribal nations, state and local governmental entities; incorporated consortia, and unincorporated consortia | |
| Civil Nuclear Credit Program - Funding | IIJA | Open | Owners or operators of nuclear reactors that are at risk of closure by the end of the four-year award period, including such reactors that ceased operations after November 15, 2021 | |
| Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Discretionary Grant Program - Funding | IIJA | Open | States or political subdivision of states, metropolitan planning organizations, unit of local governments, special purpose districts or public authorities with a transportation function, including port authorities, Indian tribes, U.S. territories, authorities, agencies, or instrumentalities or entities owned by, one or more entities listed above, group of entities listed above, state or local authorities with ownership of publicly accessible transportation facilities (applies to Community Program only) | |
| FY 2023 – FY 2024 Pollution Prevention Grants: Environmental Justice in Communities Environmental Protection Agency - Funding |
IIJA | Open | The fifty states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, any territory or possession of the U.S., any agency or instrumentality of a state or tribe, including colleges and universities, and federally recognized tribes and intertribal consortia | |
| BIL Clean Energy Efficiency Conservation Block Grant Competitive Program - Funding | IIJA | Open | US cities, counties and Indian Tribes that are ineligible to receive an EECBG Formula award | |
| BIL Clean Energy Demonstration Program on Current and Former Mine Land - Funding | IIJA | Open | Institutions of higher education, non-profit entities, for-profit entities, Indian nations, state and local government entities, incorporated consortia, and unincorporated consortia | |
| BIL Industrial Assessment Center (IAC) Program - IACs at Trade Schools, Community Colleges, and Union Training Programs; and Building Training and Assessment Centers (BTAC) Program - Funding | IIJA | Open | Community colleges, community college systems, trade schools, union training programs, institutions of higher education, tribal colleges or universities (depends on topic area) | |
| Section 30D New Clean Vehicle Credit - Comment | IRA | Open | Unrestricted | |
| DOE Heat Pump Defense Production Act - Funding | IRA and IIJA | Open | Individuals, institutions of higher education, for-profit entities, non-profit entities, state and local governmental entities, and tribal nations | |
| 2023 Clean School Bus (CSB) Grant Program - Funding | IIJA | Open | Public school districts, tribal applicants, third parties (non-profit school transportation association or eligible contractor) | |
| Development of Guidance for Zero-Emission Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles, Port Equipment, and Fueling Infrastructure Deployment under the Inflation Reduction Act Funding Programs - Comment | IRA | Open | Members of the public | |
| US Tidal Advancement (Topic Area 1) - Funding | IIJA | Open | Institutions of higher education, for-profit entities, non-profit entities, state and local governmental entities, and Indian Tribes | |
| US Tidal Advancement (Topic Area 2) - Funding | IIJA | Open | Institutions of higher education, for-profit entities, non-profit entities, state and local governmental entities, and Indian Tribes | |
| BIL Energy Improvement in Rural or Remote Areas (ERA) Fixed Award Grant Program - Funding | IIJA | Open | State and local governmental entities; Indian Nations (DOE Order 144.1, 7.a); non-profit entities; for-profit entities; institutions of higher education; and consortia | |
| Section 247: Maintaining and Enhancing Hydroelectricity Incentives - Funding | IIJA | Open | An owner or authorized operator of an existing facility that is licensed or has received an exemption from licensing from FERC pursuant to the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 791a et seq.) or is a hydroelectric project constructed, operated, or maintained pursuant to a permit or valid existing right-of-way granted prior to 06/10/1920, or a license granted pursuant to the Federal Power Act prior to 11/15/2021, may apply for incentive payments for maintaining and enhancing its facility | |
| Green and Resilient Retrofit Program (GRRPC) Comprehensive - Funding | IRA | Open | Owners of a property assisted under one of the following forms of assistance contract with HUD: Properties assisted by Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) Housing Assistance Payments (HAP) Contracts; Properties assisted under §202 of the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q) and §202 of the Housing Act of 1959 (former 12 U.S.C. 1701q); Properties assisted under §811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8013) (“§811”); Properties assisted under §236 of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-1) which are receiving §236 Interest Reduction Payments (IRP), etc. See Eligible Applicants for further details/additional eligibility. | |
| Green and Resilient Retrofit Program, (GRRP) Leading Edge - Funding | IRA | Open | Owners of a property assisted under one of the following forms of assistance contract with HUD: Properties assisted by Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) Housing Assistance Payments (HAP) Contracts; Properties assisted under §202 of the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q) and §202 of the Housing Act of 1959 (former 12 U.S.C. 1701q); Properties assisted under §811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8013) (§811); Properties assisted under §236 of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-1) which are receiving §236 Interest Reduction Payments (IRP), etc. See Eligible Applicants for further details/additional eligibility. | |
| Green and Resilient Retrofit Program (GRRPE) Elements - Funding | IRA | Open | Owners of a property assisted under one of the following forms of assistance contract with HUD: Properties assisted by the Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) Housing Assistance Payments (HAP) Contracts; Properties assisted under §202 of the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q) and §202 of the Housing Act of 1959 (former 12 U.S.C. 1701q); Properties assisted under §811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8013) (§ 811); Properties assisted under §236 of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-1) which are receiving §236 Interest Reduction Payments (IRP), etc. See Eligible Applicants for further details/additional eligibility. | |
| Extended Product System Rebates - Funding | IIJA | Open until funding expended | Purchaser of the qualified extended product system or manufacturer of commercial or industrial machinery or equipment that incorporates the qualified extended product system | |
| Energy Efficient Transformer Rebates - Funding | IIJA | Open until funding expended | Owners of industrial or manufacturing facilities, commercial buildings, or multifamily residential buildings, a utility, or an energy service company | |
| Home Electrification Rebate Program - Funding | IRA | Pending | State energy offices and Indian Tribes | |
| Home Efficiency Rebate Program - Funding | IRA | Pending | State energy offices and Indian Tribes | |
| BIL§40551: WAP Enhancement & Innovation - Funding | IIJA | Pending | Existing WAP Grantees, WAP Subgrantees, and other nonprofit entities | |
| Powering Affordable Clean Energy (PACE) Program - Funding | IRA | Pending | Eligible applicants that generate electricity for resale to residents in rural and nonrural areas, however, at least 50% of the population served by the proposed renewable energy project must live in communities with populations of 20,000 or fewer. Eligible entities: corporations, states and territories, along with their subdivisions and agencies; municipalities; utility districts; cooperatives; non-profits, Indian Tribes, Alaska native, regional or village corporations, limited liability companies or other for-profit entities organized under the laws of any U.S. state or territory |
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| Empowering Rural America (New ERA) Program - Funding | IRA | Pending | Rural electric cooperatives, including: existing or former USDA Rural Utilities Service (RUS) borrowers, borrowers of the former Rural Electrification Administration, rural electric cooperatives that serve predominantly rural areas, wholly or jointly owned subsidiaries of rural electric cooperatives | |
| BIL FY23 Renew America's Nonprofits - Funding | IIJA | Pending | ||
| Technical Assistance for the Adoption of the Latest and Zero Building Energy Codes or Standards - Funding | IRA | Pending | State energy offices, District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, and units of local government that have authority to adopt building codes | |
| Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: §134(a)(2) and §134(a)(3) - General Assistance & Low Income & Disadvantaged Communities Grant Program - Funding | IRA | Pending | State, local, public non-profit institution/organization, other public institution/organization, federally recognized Indian Tribal governments, U.S. territories, individual/family, minority group, small business, private non-profit institution/ organization, quasi-public non-profit organization, other private institution/ organization, general public, Native American organizations, builder/contractor/ developer, small businesses, consumer, homeowner, moderate income, low income, major metropolis (over 250,000), other urban, suburban and rural | |
| Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: §134(a)(1) - Funding | IRA | Pending | States, Tribal governments, municipalities, and eligible recipients, as those terms are defined in the Clean Air Act (see website for further details) | |
| Transmission Siting and Economic Development Grants Program - Funding | IRA | Pending | Siting authorities | |
| Front-End Engineering Design Studies for Production of Critical Minerals and Materials from Coal-Based Resources - Funding | IIJA | Pending | Unrestricted | |
| Carbon Utilization Procurement Grants Under Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Section 40302- Funding | IIJA | Pending | State governments, city or township governments and county governments | |
| Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnership (GRIP), Grid Resilience Utility and Industry Grants (40101c) - Funding | IIJA | 2023 Funding Closed | Electric grid operators, electricity storage operators, electricity generators, transmission owners or operators, distribution providers, and fuel suppliers | |
| Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnership (GRIP), Smart Grid Grants (40107) - Funding | IIJA | 2023 Funding Closed | Institutions of higher education, for-profit entities, non-profit entities, state and local governments, and tribal nations | |
| Transmission Facilitation Program (TFP) - Funding | IIJA | Phase I closed, Phase II pending | Any entity seeking to carry out a project that constructs, replaces, or upgrades a transmission line that is either not less than 1,000 megawatts (MW) for new lines or 500 MW for existing lines as well as a project that connects microgrids in select states and U.S. territories | |
| Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnership (GRIP), Grid Innovation Program (40103b) - Funding | IIJA | Closed | States, territories, tribes, local governments and PUCs | DEEP request for interest and draft concept papers Multistate concept paper submitted |
| Energy Efficiency Revolving Loan Fund Capitalization Grant Program - Funding | IIJA | Closed | State energy offices | |
| To Address Key Deployment Challenges for Offshore, Land-Based, and Distributed Wind (41007(b)(1)) - Funding | IIJA | Closed | Institutions of higher education, for-profit entities, non-profit entities, state and local government entities, and tribal nations | |
| Long-duration Energy Storage Demonstrations - Funding | IIJA | Closed | Institutions of higher education, for-profit entities, non-profit entities, state and local government entities, and tribal nations | |
| Additional Clean Hydrogen Programs (Section 40314): Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs - Funding | IIJA | Closed | Institutions of higher education, for-profit entities, non-profit entities, state and local government entities, and tribal nations | |
| RFI Request for Information Preparing Workers and Businesses to Deliver Energy Efficiency and Building Electrification Measures - Comment | IRA and IIJA | Closed | Unrestricted | |
| Resilient and Efficient Codes Implementation - Funding | IIJA | Closed | Local building code agencies, codes and standards developers, associations of builders and design and construction professionals, local and utility energy efficiency programs, consumer, energy efficiency, and environmental advocates, and other entities as determined by the secretary | |
| Energy Improvements at Public K-12 School Facilities - BIL - Renew America's Schools - Funding | IIJA | Closed | Schools, non-profit organizations that have the knowledge and capacity to partner and assist with energy improvements, for-profit organizations that have the knowledge and capacity to partner and assist with energy improvements, and community partners that have the knowledge and capacity to partner and assist with energy improvements | |
| Water Power Projects: Innovative Technologies to Enable Low Impact Hydropower and Pumped Storage Hydropower Growth - Funding | IIJA | Closed | For-profit entities, educational institutions, non-profit entities, state and local governments, tribal nations, DOE/NNSA FFRDCs, and Non-DOE/NNSA FFRDCs | |
| Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Regional Direct Air Capture (DAC) Hubs (Section 40308) - Funding | IIJA | Closed | Technology developers, industry, utilities, universities, national laboratories, engineering and construction firms, state and local governments, tribal, environmental groups, and community based organizations | |
| Home Efficiency Rebate Program - Request for Information | IRA | Closed | Unrestricted | RFI response submitted |
| Home Electrification Rebate Program - Request for Information | IRA | Closed | Unrestricted | RFI response submitted |
| State Energy Program BIL - Funding | IIJA | Closed | State energy offices | |
| WAP BIL(Weatherization Assistance Program BIL) - Funding | IIJA | Closed | State energy offices | Application submitted |
| Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund - Comment | IRA | Closed | States eligible for a subset of available funds | Multistate comment letter submitted DEEP comment letter submitted |
| Community Geothermal Heating and Cooling Design and Deployment - Funding | Closed | For-profits, educational institutions, non-profits, states, local and tribal governments, DOE/NNSA FFRDCs, non-DOE/NNSA FFRDCs | DEEP RFI DEEP Application | |
| RFI Requests from IRS on Energy Tax Credits - Comment | IRA | Closed | Unrestricted | For the latest guidance on IRA Energy Tax Credits see the IRS’s webpage |
| Stakeholder Engagement Opportunities on Inflation Reduction Act Programs to Reduce Embodied Greenhouse Gas Emissions Associated with Construction Materials and Products - Comments | IRA | Closed | ||
| 2023 Port Infrastructure Development Program Grants - Funding | IIJA | Closed | Port authority, a commission or its subdivision or agent under existing authority, a state or political subdivision of a state or local government, an Indian Tribe, a public agency or publicly chartered authority established by one or more states, a special purpose district with a transportation function, a multistate or multijurisdictional group of entities, or a lead entity described above jointly with a private entity or group of private entities (including the owners or operators of a facility, or collection of facilities, at a port) | |
| Grants Supporting States and Tribes Developing Programs for Carbon Sequestration and Groundwater Protection - Funding | IIJA | Closed | States, tribes and territories | |
| 2023 Low or No Emission Grant Program and the Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities Competitive Program - Funding | IIJA | Closed | States (including territories and Washington, D.C.), local governmental authorities and tribal governments | |
| Section 242 Hydroelectric Production Incentives - Funding | IIJA | Closed | Owners and authorized operators of qualified hydroelectric facilities | |
| Grid Deployment Office Draft Guidance on Implementing the Maintaining and Enhancing Hydroelectricity Incentives - Comment | IIJA | Closed | ||
| Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grant - Request for Information | IRA | Closed | ||
| Carbon Capture Demonstration Projects Program - Funding | IIJA | Closed | Industry stakeholders, including any industry stakeholder operating in partnership with the National Laboratories; Institutions of higher education; Multi-institutional collaborations; and, other appropriate entities as follows: a. for-profit entities; b. non-profit entities; c. Tribal Nations; d. state and local governmental entities; e. incorporated consortia; and f. unincorporated consortia | |
| RFI on Digital Equity Act of 2021 - Comment | IIJA | Closed | ||
| RFI on National Transmission Needs Study - Comment | IIJA | Closed | ||
| Clean Air Act Grants - funding | IRA | Closed | State, local, Tribal, and territorial air pollution control agencies. Eligibility will be limited to air agencies currently receiving CAA Section 105 grants | |
| The Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving Cooperative Agreement Program - Funding | IRA | Closed | A community-based non-profit organization, or a partnership of community-based non-profit organizations | |
| IRA §50131 Request For Information (RFI): Technical Assistance for Latest and Zero Building Energy Code Adoption - Comment | IRA | Closed | State and local governments, building officials, contractors, designers, builders, other industry representatives, community organizations, academia, research laboratories, and other stakeholders | |
| Domestic Manufacturing Conversion Grants for Electrified Vehicles - Comment | IRA | Closed | Members of the public | |
| Engagement Opportunities for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund - Comment | IRA | Closed | Members of the public and interested parties | |
| Climate Pollution Reduction Grants - Funding | IRA | Closed | States, territories, tribes, air pollution control agencies and local governments | |
Content last updated May 31, 2023