Government Grants for Energy & Clean Technology
Energy and clean-tech firms access funding from the Department of Energy — including the Office of Science, ARPA-E, and EERE — plus Inflation Reduction Act incentives for efficiency, renewables, storage, and decarbonization. Both R&D grants and deployment funding are available.
Energy funding landscape
The DOE funds everything from frontier research (ARPA-E) to applied efficiency and renewables (EERE) to large deployment projects. The Inflation Reduction Act added substantial incentives and grant programs for clean energy, manufacturing, and emissions reduction.
How to compete
R&D awards reward technical innovation and a credible path to impact; deployment funding rewards project readiness and measurable outcomes. Register in SAM.gov and align proposals with current DOE priorities such as grid resilience, storage, and industrial decarbonization.