Skipso Weekly Digest

Cleantech Grants, Awards, Incentives

September October 2nd – October 9th 2009

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 Summary Skipso Cleantech Grants
• Number of Grants: 467
54%
24%
• Value of Grants: $35billion* 4%
4%
• Countries Covered: 25 3%
2%
• New Grants this Week: 10 1%
1%
• Latest update: October 9th , 2009 1%
1%

*Includes funds allocated for production incentives, loans, tax credits Other countries: Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, China, India, Brazil,
Thailand, Switzerland, Holland, Singapore, UAE

174

107
86

38
31
14 10
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 This Week on Skipso

• 10 new Cleantech Grants, Awards and Incentives

added to Skipso’s funding database

• Focus this week was on Recovery Act Funding for New

Graduates in Science, U.S. State Incentives
(Pennsylvania), new Canada Renewable Energy Grants,
UNEP’s sponsored Rural Energy Start-up Grants (Africa,
China, Brazil)

• 14 grants and awards approaching application deadline

• The Skipso funding section this week has reached 467

Cleantech grants, awards, incentives and over $34b in
value, all are accessible for free on http://www.skipso.com

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 Recovery Act Funding

Recovery Act Funding for New

Graduate Fellowships in Science,
Mathematics and Engineering

• Grant Type: Research & Development

• Amount: $50k per year ($12.5 million total
fund)
• Geographic Focus: U.S.
• Deadline: 30th November 2009
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The program supports outstanding students to pursue graduate training in basic

research in areas of physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics, engineering,
computational sciences, and environmental sciences relevant to the Office of
Science and to encourage the development of the next generation scientific and
technical talent in the U.S.

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 U.S. State Incentives (Pennsylvania 1 of 2)
Incentive Name Cleantech Focus Details
Pennsylvania - Tax Credits on Renewable • Grant Type: Tax Relief, US
Alternative Energy Energy Projects • Amount: 15% on investments
Production Tax Credit • Deadline: 31st Dec 2016
• Visit website

Pennsylvania - DCED Wind, Hydro, Bio-energy, • Grant Type: Loans, US

Alternative and Clean Geothermal other Renewable • Amount: $165m grant
Energy Program Sources program
• Deadline: Ongoing
• Visit website

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 U.S. State Incentives (Pennsylvania 2 of 2)
Incentive Name Cleantech Focus Details
Pennsylvania - DCED Wind and Geothermal • Grant Type: Loans, US
Wind and Geothermal energy technologies • Amount: $25m grant program
Incentives Program • Deadline: Ongoing
Credit • Visit website

Pennsylvania - DCED Solar Solar Energy Technologies • Grant Type: Loans, US

Energy Incentives • Amount: $80m grant
Program program
• Deadline: Ongoing
• Visit website

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 Canada Cleantech Grants
Incentive Name Cleantech Focus Details
Canada SmartWay Transport: Efficient • Grant Type: Inst. Proj.,
Certified Technology Technologies for Heavy Canada
Fund Vehicles • Amount: N/A
• Deadline: 30th Oct 2009
• Visit website

ecoENERGY for Renewable Sources: Solar, • Grant Type: Incentive,

Renewable Power Wind, Hydro, Marine, Bio- Canada
energy, Geothermal • Amount: $1c per kWh / 10
years
• Deadline: 31st Mar 2011
• Visit website

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 Cleantech Grant of the Week (1 of 3)

AREED - African Rural Energy

Enterprise Development

• Grant Type: Start-ups

• Amount: Varies
• Geographic Focus: Africa
• Deadline: Ongoing
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AREED provides early-stage funding and enterprise development services to

entrepreneurs, helping build successful businesses that supply clean energy
technologies and services to rural and peri-urban African customers.

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 Cleantech Grant of the Week (2 of 3)

CREED - China Rural Energy

Enterprise Development

• Grant Type: Start-ups

• Amount: up to $150,000
• Geographic Focus: China – Yunnan Province
• Deadline: Ongoing
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• In the biologically rich and diverse northwest Yunnan Province and neighbouring areas
of Western China, the China Rural Energy Enterprise Development (CREED)
initiative is helping to create a sustainable energy development path for rural
people

• CREED builds on the “REED approach” developed by project partner E+Co to couple
Enterprise Development Services (EDS) with closely targeted start-up financing
for entrepreneurs

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 Cleantech Grant of the Week (3 of 3)

REED - Brazil Rural Energy

Enterprise Development

• Grant Type: Start-ups

• Amount: up to $250,000
• Geographic Focus: Brazil – northeast regions
• Deadline: Ongoing
Go to website

• B-REED (Brazil Rural Energy Enterprise Development Programme), a US$2

million initiative with funding primarily from the United Nations Foundation

• B-REED employs E+Co’s “enterprise centered” approach of providing enterprise

development services (“EDS”), together with early stage capital, up to $250,000,
in the form of debt, equity, or a mezzanine structure.

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