Energy Tech grants in Germany
Explore Energy Tech grants for companies in Germany. This list brings together funding for renewables, storage, grids, hydrogen, nuclear and energy efficiency from German innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, EU and international programs open to applicants in Germany, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Energy Tech in Germany come first.
Showing 145-168 of 502 grants
ERC Consolidator Grant
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds researchers 5 to 15 years past their PhD who are building an independent research team in Europe through an ERC Consolidator Grant.
Eurostars Call 12 for projects
🇪🇺RVO · Netherlands
Funds innovative SME-led international R&D consortia through the Eurostars Call 12 grant process.
EIC Pathfinder Open
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Funds bottom-up research for breakthrough deep-tech, any field of science.
STEP Scale Up
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Invests in European deep-tech scale-up ventures with momentum needing capital for commercial expansion.
EIC International Trade Fairs Programme 3.0
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports EIC beneficiaries' participation in major trade fairs across the EU, MENA and the US.
EIT Digital Co-Creation Accelerator
🇪🇺28DIGITAL · European Union
Funds early-stage deep tech startups developing solutions at TRL 4-5 in collaboration with industry partners through a 4-month co-creation programme.
Innowwide — Next
🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Offers market-feasibility support for small companies exploring non-European markets through Europe-wide innovation networks.
LIFE Programme
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds environmental programs that improve ecosystem restoration, climate adaptation, and energy-transition readiness.
NATO DIANA Challenge Programme
NATO DIANA · Global / Multinational
Funds for-profit deep-tech companies from any NATO member nation that are developing dual-use solutions to critical defence and security challenges, through competitive annual and dynamic challenge calls.
SPRIND Funke
🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany
Supports early-stage German innovators through a pilot challenge route with mentoring and development funding.
A Sustainable and Green Rail System
🇪🇺EU-RAIL JU · European Union
Funds one flagship consortium to demonstrate battery and hydrogen trains, smarter rail power grids and healthier, more circular rolling stock.
Accelerated multi-physical and virtual testing for battery aging, reliability, and safety evaluation (Batt4EU Partnership)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds development of faster, combined physical-and-virtual testing methods for EV battery ageing, reliability and safety.
Advanced manufacturing technologies for leadership of EU manufacturers in products for the net-zero industry
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds manufacturers developing advanced production processes — additive manufacturing, joining, forming, precision machining — for components used in net-zero technologies.
Affordable and sustainable primary equipment for Future-Ready multi-terminal HVDC Systems
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds development of affordable, SF6-free primary equipment — circuit breakers, cables and converters — for multi-terminal HVDC grids.
Affordable, Safe and Sustainable aboveground medium to large GH2 storage
🇪🇺Clean Hydrogen JU · European Union
Funds research into affordable, safe materials and designs for medium-to-large aboveground compressed hydrogen storage.
AI-driven forecasting algorithms for Grid and Consumer friendly Energy Sharing – Societal Readiness pilot
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds AI-driven forecasting tools that help energy communities and consumers share power while easing the burden on grid operators.
Aircraft propulsion and energy management systems
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds development of modular propulsion, power and thermal-management technology for next-generation fighter aircraft.
Breakthrough Renewable Energy Technologies
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds high-risk renewable energy concepts that prove technical feasibility at TRL 4–5 and outperform current commercial options.
Building a Long-Term Africa Union (AU) and European Union (EU) Research and Innovation joint collaboration on Sustainable Renewable Energies
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays one coordination project up to EUR 4 million to build a lasting AU-EU research partnership on sustainable renewable energy, with at least 40% of partners based in Africa.
Clean Energy Transition Co-Funded Partnership
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays EUR 69 million to the existing Clean Energy Transition Partnership consortium to continue pooling national research funding for the EU's clean-energy transition through 2027.
Competitiveness, energy security and integration aspects of advanced biofuels and renewable fuels of non-biological origin value chains
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds analysis of how to make Europe's advanced biofuel and renewable-fuel supply chains more secure and competitive.
Components Development and Experimental Testing for an Onboard Liquid Hydrogen Supply and Conditioning System in High-Power Fuel Cell Aviation Applications
🇪🇺Clean Hydrogen JU · European Union
Funds research into onboard components for a liquid hydrogen supply system for fuel cell aircraft, run in tandem with a matching Clean Aviation project.
Control and operation tools for a RES-based energy system
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two demonstration projects, worth up to EUR 10 million each, building grid-control tools that let electricity networks absorb much higher shares of renewable power.
Coordinated call with India on waste to renewable hydrogen
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds EU research teams developing biogenic-waste-to-hydrogen technology in coordination with an India-funded partner project on the same topic.