Deadline: 26-Aug-22
The Sustainability Victoria (SV) is inviting applications for its Waste to Energy Fund: Bioenergy – Stream 1: Project development to support Applicants to scope, test, and gain approvals to achieve pre-construction and pre-financial close phases of a bioenergy project.
Objectives
- Projects must meet one or more of the following objectives:
- increase the production of bioenergy in Victoria
- increase the diversion of organic material from landfill
- increase abatement of greenhouse gases
- increase business opportunities, economic development, and beneficial use of pathways across the bioenergy supply chain.
Aims
- The Fund aims to achieve the following outcomes:
- increase the capacity of Victoria’s renewable energy generation
- increase in the amount of organic material diverted from landfill
- decrease greenhouse gas emissions
- purchase, install, and commission bioenergy infrastructure
- increase local employment
- develop realistic feasibility studies and business cases
- develop market pathways for bioenergy end products
- develop and analyse the feedstock market network
- develop clear regulatory and approval pathways.
Funding Information
- Total funding available: Between $20,000 and $250,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Funding is available to Applicants that propose to generate bioenergy using organic materials and can demonstrate that this solution is the best value option in the Waste Hierarchy.
- Eligible organisations include:
- businesses, industry groups or associations
- local government
- research institutes
- Charities
- Community Groups
- Social Enterprises
- other Not-For-Profit organisations.
- Consultants may apply as a Lead Applicant in a Collaborative Partnership only and must be organisations not individuals.
- They encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations.
- Applicants must:
- be legally constituted organisations
- have a current Australian Business Number (ABN)
- have been operating for a minimum of 12 months by the application closing date (to be validated by the date that the organisation’s ABN is active from)
- be able to demonstrate financial viability to undertake the project (will meet or exceed the minimum co-contribution requirement)
- agree to comply with the Terms of Participation in Grant Programs
For more information, visit https://www.sustainability.vic.gov.au/grants-funding-and-investment/grants-and-funding/waste-to-energy-fund-bioenergy-stream-1-project-development