Funder: Federal – Environment
Grant Background: The Regional and Remote Communities Reliability Fund supports feasibility studies into more reliable, secure and cost effective energy supply to 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-off- grid communities located in regional and remote areas.
The objective of the program is to support regional and remote communities to investigate whether replacing, upgrading or supplementing a microgrid or upgrading existing off-grid and fringe-off-grid supply with microgrid or related new energy technologies would be cost effective.
$ Available: Up to $10million.
Eligibility: 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
- are a substantial and not merely peripheral activity of the corporation.
They can only accept applications if your project is located in an inner regional, outer regional, remote or very remote area.
Key Dates: Closes on 21 November 2019.
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Happy to chat if you need a hand with your application. Good luck, Melanie
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