Clean Energy Grants

Clean Energy Grants

Funds Washington clean energy builders in solar, storage, grid resilience, and infrastructure deployment across utilities and communities.

⚠ This may reflect a past cycle — verify the current call on the funder's site.

The Clean Energy Grants program is administered by the Washington State Department of Commerce and consolidates three previously separate funding streams — the Clean Energy Fund (CEF), Clean Energy Community Grants, and Solar and Storage Grants — into a single application. The 2025 cycle distributed approximately $32 million across awards ranging from $50,000 to $2,500,000. The program is funded in part through Washington's climate and energy policy and serves as the state's primary mechanism for accelerating clean energy deployment at the project scale.

Eligible applicants span the full spectrum of sectors: consumer-owned and investor-owned retail electric utilities, for-profit companies, local governments, nonprofits, research institutions, state agencies, and tribal governments. Tribes are also served through a separate dedicated Tribal Clean Energy Grants RFA. Eligible project activities include clean energy technology deployment and installation, facility improvements for clean energy, pre-development studies and permitting, community engagement, emergency energy planning and resilience upgrades, and workforce development. Eligible technologies include solar, energy storage, grid resilience, wind, biomass, renewable hydrogen, geothermal, and other renewable resources. The 2025 cycle closed November 5, 2025, with awards announced December 2025 and earliest contract start in February 2026. Projects must be construction-ready and capable of completion by June 2027.

The program follows an annual cycle pattern, making a 2026 cycle likely later in 2026. The Department of Commerce prioritizes projects benefiting vulnerable populations and overburdened communities, including tribal nations. Applications are submitted through the ZoomGrants portal. There is no stated match requirement. Prospective applicants should contact EPICgrants@commerce.wa.gov to be notified when the 2026 RFA is released and to review program documents on the department's Box repository.