Colorado’s Clean Air Program provides grants for emission reduction projects that bring the State closer to its air pollutant emission reduction goals.
Donor Name: Colorado Energy Office (CEO)
State: Colorado
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/31/2025
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 5-10 Years
Details:
Clean Air Program grants offsets the direct costs of purchasing industrial air pollutant emission reduction equipment at the site where air pollutant emissions are generated and released.
Eligible Project Types
Clean Air Program funding is available for voluntary emissions reduction projects at eligible industrial facilities. Voluntary projects are projects that achieve emissions reductions beyond or before reductions required by applicable state and federal laws, regulations, or mandates.
Eligible project types include:
- Fossil fuel efficiency & fuel switching to lower carbon fuel sources
- Industrial process changes that reduce air pollutant emissions
- Converting fossil fuel-powered equipment/processes to an electric fuel source (i.e. strategic electrification)
- Where grid access is unavailable, converting to renewable energy. Projects must support strategic electrification or fulfill some or all processing heating requirements.
- Concentrated solar for process heating
- Carbon management projects; specifically, carbon capture from an industrial point source, carbon sequestration or storage, carbon utilization, and direct air capture
- Methane capture, destruction, and utilization.
Funding Information
The total funding amount distributed by CAP will not exceed $25 million over the program’s duration, with CAP sunsetting June 30, 2028.
Grant Period
6 years.
Eligibility Criteria
The following applicant types are eligible to apply for this grant:
- Private Entities:
- Manufacturing operations (202 NAICS code between 31-33)
- Cement plants
- Steel mills
- Mining & Quarrying (NAICS code 2121, 2122, 2123)
- Midstream Operators
- Refineries
- Meat packing plants
- Dairies
- Airline operations
- Drinking and wastewater treatment plants
- Landfill operators
- Abandoned coal mine sites
- Carbon management project developers
- Local Governments: A statutory or home rule municipality, county, city and county, or special district
- Tribal Governments
- Public-Private Partnerships: A partnership between a local government and a private entity that engages in industrial and manufacturing operations.
- As-a-Service Company: A third-party financing and ownership model in which the service provider purchases, installs, owns, and is responsible for the operation and maintenance of eligible decarbonization equipment at an End User’s facility. There is no asset or liability added to the End-User’s balance sheet, making the service payment similar to any other operating expenditure, such as a subscription payment.
- Special Purpose Vehicle (SPVs): A subsidiary created by a parent organization to manage financial risk. Operating independently, an SPV maintains its own assets, liabilities, and legal status.
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