The Washington State Department of COMMERCE, hereafter called “COMMERCE,” is initiating this Request for Applications (RFA) to fund clean energy projects in Washington through a combination of funding sources.
Donor Name: Washington State Department of Commerce
State: Washington
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/14/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Commerce is now accepting applications to support the planning, design, and construction of clean energy projects through a general round which is open to all eligible project types and applicants. Approximately $34 million will be available in the general round to support the following project areas:

Electric grid modernization and innovation
Innovative large-scale and dual-use solar
Solar energy retrofits for public buildings
Clean energy project siting and permitting
Building, industry, aviation and maritime Decarbonization
Clean energy projects that leverage private and federal funding.

Project Categories 

Large scale solar innovation

Planning or a construction project. Planning project must lead to a capital asset.
Solar array(s) must have alternating current (AC) nameplate capacity of more than 100 kW at a single site or more than 1 MW across multiple sites
Cannot displace critical habitat or productive farmland

Dual-use solar

Planning or a construction project
Must involve commercial, dual-use solar power demonstration

Hard to decarbonize and economic development

Planning or a construction project. Planning project must lead to a capital asset.
Project must achieve one or more of the following goals:

Reduce emissions in hard-to-decarbonize sector
Bring private investment and federal funding to the state

Grid integration and innovation

Planning or a construction project
Must develop and demonstrate distributed energy resources and non-wire alternatives
Must be for electrical grid integration and innovation projects
Must do at least one of the following:

Support implementation of demand response
Improve integration of renewable energy and energy storage
Advance community resilience
Support implementation of sustainable microgrids
Accelerate beneficial load integration and demand management for at least one of the following:

Building electrification
Equipment electrification
Electric vehicle charging

Clean energy siting and permitting

Planning projects only
Must support siting and permitting of clean energy projects through at least one of the following methods:

Support pre-development work at sites for clean energy projects
Support land use studies
Conduct or engage in planning efforts such as planned actions and programmatic environmental impact statements (EIS)
Improve permit timeliness and certainty with staff, expertise or databases

Solar installations on existing public buildings

Construction projects only
Must purchase and install solar PV only at an existing public building (must have a certificate of occupancy prior to application).

Funding Information
The minimum award amount is $50,000, and the maximum award amount for a single award is $3,000,000.
Eligibility Criteria 

Unless the Applicant is a federally recognized tribe, applicants must be licensed to do business in the State of Washington or submit a statement of commitment that it will become licensed in Washington within thirty (30) calendar days of being selected as an Apparently Successful Contractor.
Applicants must be in good standing with all applicable federal, state, and local laws and requirements, including with the Department of Commerce.
Applicants must be one of the following entities (please note, not all entities are eligible for all project categories.

Associate development organization
Federally recognized tribal government
For-profit entity
Investor-owned, co-operative, or public retail electric utility
K-12 school district
Local government
Non-profit organization
Private educational institution or public higher education institution
Other academic or research institution
State agency
Tribes’ contracted service providers.

For more information, visit WSDC.