The Washington State Department of COMMERCE, hereafter called “COMMERCE,” is initiating this Request for Applications (RFA) to fund clean energy projects in Washington through a combination of funding sources.
Donor Name: Washington State Department of Commerce
State: Washington
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/14/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Commerce is now accepting applications to support the planning, design, and construction of clean energy projects through a general round which is open to all eligible project types and applicants. Approximately $34 million will be available in the general round to support the following project areas:
- Electric grid modernization and innovation
- Innovative large-scale and dual-use solar
- Solar energy retrofits for public buildings
- Clean energy project siting and permitting
- Building, industry, aviation and maritime Decarbonization
- Clean energy projects that leverage private and federal funding.
Project Categories
- Large scale solar innovation
- Planning or a construction project. Planning project must lead to a capital asset.
- Solar array(s) must have alternating current (AC) nameplate capacity of more than 100 kW at a single site or more than 1 MW across multiple sites
- Cannot displace critical habitat or productive farmland
- Dual-use solar
- Planning or a construction project
- Must involve commercial, dual-use solar power demonstration
- Hard to decarbonize and economic development
- Planning or a construction project. Planning project must lead to a capital asset.
- Project must achieve one or more of the following goals:
- Reduce emissions in hard-to-decarbonize sector
- Bring private investment and federal funding to the state
- Grid integration and innovation
- Planning or a construction project
- Must develop and demonstrate distributed energy resources and non-wire alternatives
- Must be for electrical grid integration and innovation projects
- Must do at least one of the following:
- Support implementation of demand response
- Improve integration of renewable energy and energy storage
- Advance community resilience
- Support implementation of sustainable microgrids
- Accelerate beneficial load integration and demand management for at least one of the following:
- Building electrification
- Equipment electrification
- Electric vehicle charging
- Clean energy siting and permitting
- Planning projects only
- Must support siting and permitting of clean energy projects through at least one of the following methods:
- Support pre-development work at sites for clean energy projects
- Support land use studies
- Conduct or engage in planning efforts such as planned actions and programmatic environmental impact statements (EIS)
- Improve permit timeliness and certainty with staff, expertise or databases
- Solar installations on existing public buildings
- Construction projects only
- Must purchase and install solar PV only at an existing public building (must have a certificate of occupancy prior to application).
Funding Information
The minimum award amount is $50,000, and the maximum award amount for a single award is $3,000,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Unless the Applicant is a federally recognized tribe, applicants must be licensed to do business in the State of Washington or submit a statement of commitment that it will become licensed in Washington within thirty (30) calendar days of being selected as an Apparently Successful Contractor.
- Applicants must be in good standing with all applicable federal, state, and local laws and requirements, including with the Department of Commerce.
- Applicants must be one of the following entities (please note, not all entities are eligible for all project categories.
- Associate development organization
- Federally recognized tribal government
- For-profit entity
- Investor-owned, co-operative, or public retail electric utility
- K-12 school district
- Local government
- Non-profit organization
- Private educational institution or public higher education institution
- Other academic or research institution
- State agency
- Tribes’ contracted service providers.
For more information, visit WSDC.
