Cleantech Grants, Awards, Incentives

Skipso Weekly Digest
Cleantech Grants, Awards, Incentives
December 4th – December 11th 2009
enabling sustainable innovation www.skipso.com

Summary Skipso Cleantech Grants
• Number of Grants: 540
53%
25%
• Value of Grants: $38billion* 3%
3%
• Countries Covered: 40+ 3%
2%
• New Grants this Week: 8 2%
2%
• Latest update: December 11th , 2009 1%
1%
*Includes funds allocated for production incentives, loans, tax credits and Other countries: Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, China, India, Brazil,
expired grants Thailand, Switzerland, Holland, Singapore, UAE , Nigeria, Other EU & African
countries
187
126
91
40 36
21 20 19
SKIPSO WEEKLY DIGEST: DECEMBER 4th – DECEMBER 11th enabling sustainable innovation www.skipso.com
This Week on Skipso
• 8 new Cleantech Grants, Awards and Incentives added to
Skipso’s funding database
• Focus this week: on Cleantech Start-up Competitions,

Environment Social Entrepreneurship Awards, new UK Smart
Grid Grants, US State Incentives (Michigan, Kansas)
• 2 Skipso Open Innovation Challenges are live: The Green Lighting

Challenge ($10k Cash Award) and the Concepts for CO2
Offsetting Challenge ($5k Cash Award)
• 5 grants and awards approaching application deadline
• The Skipso funding section this week has reached 540 Cleantech
grants, awards, incentives and over $38b in value, all are
accessible for free on http://www.skipso.com
East Africa Clean Energy Challenge
Access to Clean Energy

Challenge East Africa
• Grant Type: Start-ups

• Amount: $100,000
• Geographic Focus: East African Countries
• Deadline: 15th January 2010
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• A business plan competition for entrepreneurs that deliver access to clean

energy in Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania & Uganda.
• Clean energy comprises: wind, solar, biogas, hydro, liquefied petroleum

gas, biomass and energy efficiency.
Other Start-up Competitions
Name Cleantech Focus Details
Duke Start-up Challenge Energy & Environment (the • Grant Type: Start-ups
Duke Start-Up Challenge is • Amount: $30,000
an entrepreneurship • Deadline: 12th Jan 2010
competition that runs the • Visit website
course of the academic year,
from November to April.)
AC-NET Clean Tech Ideas in New Energy or • Grant Type: Start-ups

Competition Water Technology that are • Amount: $40,000
ready for market • Deadline: TBC
• Visit website
Social Entrepreneurship Grants (1 of 2)
The Skoll Awards for Social

Entrepreneurship
• Grant Type: Prize / Award

• Amount: Later-stage, or mezzanine, funding
• Geographic Focus: Global
• Deadline: 17th February 2010
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• The Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship support social entrepreneurs

whose work has the potential for large-scale influence on critical challenges
of our time: tolerance and human rights, health, economic and social equity,
peace and security, institutional responsibility, and environmental
sustainability.
Social Entrepreneurship Grants (2 of 2)
Sparkseed

• Amount: $10,000
• Geographic Focus: United States
• Deadline: 7th February 2010
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• College students with ideas that change the world
• Each year Sparkseed selects up to ten student-led social ventures. The social
innovators who lead these for profit and non-profit ventures receive six months
of high-impact support from Sparkseed.
Cleantech Grant of the Week
Smart Grid Capital Grants

Programme
• Grant Type: Research & Development

• Amount: £6,000,000
• Geographic Focus: United Kingdom
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• The Department of Energy and Climate Change is inviting applications to

their new Smart Grid Demonstration Capital Grant Programme.
• Capital funding is available for individual businesses and consortia to

develop and demonstrate the innovative technologies needed to meet the
Government’s goal of installing a smart meter in every home by 2020.
US State-Incentives
Name Cleantech Focus Details
Michigan - Refundable Solar Photovoltaic • Grant Type: Tax Relief

Photovoltaic • Amount: 25% of Capital
Manufacturing Tax Credit Costs
• Deadline: 31st Dec 2011
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Efficiency Kansas Energy Efficiency, Green • Grant Type: Loans

Revolving Loan Program Buildings • Amount: $30,000 max
• Deadline: Ongoing
• Visit website
Skipso – Open Innovation Lab (1 of 2)
Refer a friend – Win
$1,000!
The Green Lighting Challenge

• Amount: $10,000 / $1,000 referral fee
• Geographic Focus: Italy / International
• Deadline: 8th March 2010
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• GC is looking for innovative solutions and products to enhance the performance of its
LED-based product line and extend its functional application to a wider range of
fittings.
• Win $10,000 cash award for submitting solutions that will allow GC to meet the
required illumination coefficients and to expand its Green Lighting fittings to
motorways, urban areas, sports installations and other public areas.
Skipso – Open Innovation Lab (2 of 2)
Refer a friend – Win
$500!
Concepts for CO2 Project Sourcing

• Amount: $5,000 / $500 referral fee
• Geographic Focus: Developing Countries
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• Myclimate, The Climate Protection Partnership, is looking for innovative approaches to

secure and expand the sourcing of carbon offsetting projects.
Win $5,000 for submitting the most compelling concept for myclimate to find and
approach Cleantech companies, technology providers and other organizations that
apply and implement CO2-reducing technologies and initiatives in developing
countries, mainly in the field of renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Upcoming Application Deadlines (1 of 2)
See all grants on http://www.skipso.com/index.php/grants/list
Upcoming Application Deadlines (2 of 2)
See all grants on http://www.skipso.com/index.php/grants/list
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Skipso Weekly Digest

December 4th – December 11th 2009

enabling sustainable innovation www.skipso.com

• Focus this week: on Cleantech Start-up Competitions,

• 2 Skipso Open Innovation Challenges are live: The Green Lighting

• 5 grants and awards approaching application deadline

Access to Clean Energy

• Grant Type: Start-ups

• A business plan competition for entrepreneurs that deliver access to clean

• Clean energy comprises: wind, solar, biogas, hydro, liquefied petroleum

AC-NET Clean Tech Ideas in New Energy or • Grant Type: Start-ups

The Skoll Awards for Social

• Grant Type: Prize / Award

• The Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship support social entrepreneurs

• Grant Type: Prize / Award

• College students with ideas that change the world

Smart Grid Capital Grants

• Grant Type: Research & Development

• The Department of Energy and Climate Change is inviting applications to

• Capital funding is available for individual businesses and consortia to

Michigan - Refundable Solar Photovoltaic • Grant Type: Tax Relief

Efficiency Kansas Energy Efficiency, Green • Grant Type: Loans

• Grant Type: Prize / Award

Visit the website

• Grant Type: Prize / Award

• Myclimate, The Climate Protection Partnership, is looking for innovative approaches to

See all grants on http://www.skipso.com/index.php/grants/list

See all grants on http://www.skipso.com/index.php/grants/list

Join Now for Free!

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The Skipso Team – Enabling Sustainable Innovation

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