Deadline: 27-Jan-21
Applications are now open for the 2020-21 Regional and Remote Communities Reliability Fund – Microgrids to undertake feasibility studies into more reliable, secure and cost effective energy supply for regional and remote communities in Australia.
The program will fund feasibility studies looking at microgrid technologies to replace, upgrade or supplement existing electricity supply arrangements in off-grid and fringe-of grid communities located in regional and remote areas.
This will be achieved through:
- improved regional business, community services and emergency resilience through innovative microgrid solutions
- scaled-up and improved microgrid systems in regional and remote communities
- increased human capital (skills/knowledge) in the design and deployment of microgrids
- demonstrated commerciality and/or reliability and security benefits of deploying and upgrading microgrids
- reduced barriers to microgrid uptake in remote and regional communities
- increased dissemination of technology and/or project knowledge regarding the deployment and upgrading of microgrids.
Funding Information
- Grants from $100,000 to $10 million.
- You must complete your project by 30 June 2024.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible you must be an entity incorporated in Australia and a trading corporation. Your trading activities must either:
- form a sufficiently significant proportion of the corporation’s overall activities as to merit it being described as a trading corporation
- be a substantial and not merely peripheral activity of the corporation.
For more information, visit https://www.business.gov.au/Grants-and-Programs/Regional-and-Remote-Communities-Reliability-Fund-Microgrids