Regional and Remote Communities Reliability Fund – Microgrids 2020-21 (Australia)

Deadline: 27-Jan-21

Applications are now open for the 2020-21 Regional and Remote Communities Reliability Fund – Microgrids to undertake feasibility studies into more reliable, secure and cost effective energy supply for regional and remote communities in Australia.

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The program will fund feasibility studies looking at microgrid technologies to replace, upgrade or supplement existing electricity supply arrangements in off-grid and fringe-of grid communities located in regional and remote areas.

This will be achieved through:

improved regional business, community services and emergency resilience through innovative microgrid solutions
scaled-up and improved microgrid systems in regional and remote communities
increased human capital (skills/knowledge) in the design and deployment of microgrids
demonstrated commerciality and/or reliability and security benefits of deploying and upgrading microgrids
reduced barriers to microgrid uptake in remote and regional communities
increased dissemination of technology and/or project knowledge regarding the deployment and upgrading of microgrids.
Funding Information

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Grants from $100,000 to $10 million.
You must complete your project by 30 June 2024.
Eligibility Criteria

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
be a substantial and not merely peripheral activity of the corporation.
For more information, visit https://www.business.gov.au/Grants-and-Programs/Regional-and-Remote-Communities-Reliability-Fund-Microgrids