CFAs: Powering the Regions – Industrial Transformation Stream (Australia)

Deadline: 15 July 2025

Funding is available for innovation in industrial decarbonisation and advancing commercial deployment.

Focus Areas

The Program Focus Areas aim to accelerate emissions reduction in regional industrial facilities by:
- Addressing significant collective sources of emissions across the diverse set of industrial sectors
- Enabling a range of high impact decarbonisation technologies to be supported that are
- replicable across industrial sectors in the short to medium term
- Targeting solutions where there is a funding gap and a market need.

Funding Information

Eligibility Criteria

At the time of applying and throughout the life of the Project, the Applicant must hold an Australian Business Number (ABN) and be:
- an Australian entity incorporated under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)
- an Australian State or Territory owned corporation, or a subsidiary of an Australian state or territory owned corporation
- an Australian local government or council or an Australian organisation that is purposed with representing and supporting local governments or councils

Key Requirements

Applicants must demonstrate that the proposed project:
- Emissions Impact: Addresses the Scope 1 and/or Scope 2 emissions of an existing industrial activity.
- Program Contribution: Has the potential to contribute to the Program Objectives.
- Research Components: Does not consist solely of research (i.e. TRL 1-3). Research elements may be included only as part of a broader activity focused on developing, demonstrating, deploying, or commercialising a Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, or Electrification Technology.
- Funding Status: Has not received, nor is it currently under assessment for, funding from the Powering the Regions Fund – Safeguard Transformation Stream, CICEI Primary Steel Production Sector Stream, or CICEI – Cement, Lime, Alumina and Aluminium Stream.
- Additional Requirements: Meets any other criteria specified in the relevant Program Focus Areas or Funding Announcement.
Furthermore, applicants must show that the project is a technology that ARENA can lawfully fund under the ARENA Act, such as:
- Renewable Energy Technology: Including hybrid and enabling technologies related to renewable energy.
- Electrification Technology: Technologies that use electricity to replace fossil-fuel-based systems or facilitate such a replacement.
- Energy Efficiency Technology: Including energy conservation, demand management, and similar technologies.

For more information, visit Avant Group.