Green & Sustainability Business Grants
The UK government is investing heavily in the green economy transition. Grants support businesses to reduce emissions, adopt renewable energy, develop green technologies, and implement circular economy practices.
Net Zero Support
Various programmes help businesses reduce their carbon footprint. Industrial decarbonisation grants, energy efficiency schemes, and transition funding support the journey to net zero.
Renewable Energy Grants
Funding is available for businesses developing or adopting renewable energy technologies. This includes solar, wind, hydrogen, and energy storage projects.
Circular Economy
Grants support businesses implementing circular economy principles - reducing waste, reusing materials, and developing sustainable products and services.
UK Clean Energy Grants
45 grants found
Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund Discovery C6
Funding for collaborative Discovery Phase Projects that meet the Innovation Challenges to help transform gas and electricity networks.
Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund Round 5 Discovery C6
Organisations can apply for a share of up to £30 million exclusive of VAT, for collaborative Discovery Phase Projects that meet the round 5 challenges. This funding is from the Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund.
Electricity Demand Turn Up trial: EoI for flexibility providers
UK registered businesses providing flexibility services can submit an expression of interest for a trial assessing if DTU can reduce renewable electricity curtailment in Great Britain. Successful applicants can apply for a share of up to £16 million.
Funding opportunity: Ultra Long Duration Energy Storage Project Development Studies Relaunch
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £3 million for project development studies to support the development of electrochemical ultra long duration energy storage demonstration projects in the UK.
London Community Energy Fund
Supports the feasibility, development, and delivery of community energy projects in London to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, generate clean energy, and increase resilience in local communities.
Funding opportunity: Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund Discovery C7
Organisations can apply for a share of up to £30 million exclusive of VAT, for collaborative Discovery Phase Projects that meet the Innovation Challenges from the Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund.
Funding opportunity: Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund round five discovery C7
Organisations can apply for a share of up to £30 million exclusive of VAT, for collaborative discovery phase projects that meet the round five challenges.
Energy Resilience Accelerator – helping SMEs scale their resilience innovations
A programme designed to connect ambitious SMEs with industry partners (Centrica, NHS England, NESO, NGED, SSEN) to collaboratively develop trial proposals tackling pressing energy resilience challenges, with fully funded technical and business support and potential trial funding.
UK-Germany Bilateral Collaborative R&D: Round 5
Innovate UK and BMWE will invest up to £2.4 million in business-led collaborative research and development projects focused on industrial research, specifically in Clean Energy, Life Sciences, or Engineering Biology. UK registered SMEs must collaborate with at least one German SME applying under the German ZIM programme.
Local Growth Fund Low Carbon Project - South Yorkshire
A fund supporting low carbon projects in the region.
Boiler Upgrade Scheme
The Boiler Upgrade Scheme (BUS) supports the decarbonisation of homes and small and medium non-domestic buildings in England and Wales. The scheme provides upfront capital grants of up to £7,500 to encourage property owners to replace existing fossil fuel heating with more efficient, low carbon heating systems including heat pumps and biomass boilers.
GBE Community Fund
Grant funding to help community organisations in England, Wales and Northern Ireland develop and build community-owned clean energy projects. The fund provides staged grants to test project viability, turn viable ideas into investment-ready projects, or bridge capital funding gaps for construction-ready clean energy projects.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about UK clean energy grants