Open & Active Grant Solicitations:

• Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Projects - Small Businesses and Non-Profits
  The minimum application funding request is $100,000, and the maximum $500,000. All questions must be submitted in via e-mail or in writing by 5 p.m. Friday March 18, 2011, to: Mr. Paul Shannon, Green Business Fund Administrator, at pshannon@nccommerce.com or 301 N. Wilmington Street, 1326 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, N.C. 27699-1326. This solicitation closes at 2 p.m. Wednesday March 30, 2011.
• North Carolina State Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) and 2010 Compliant Heavy-Duty Truck Rebate Program
  Available until funds are gone...Apply Now!
• Golden Leaf Foundation Grants
  although primarily geared towards tobacco growing communities, they have a preference for Agriculture, Job Creation and Retention and Workforce Preparedness AND the alternative energy industry.
• Conservation Research and Development
• Renewable Energy Research and Development

Guaranteed Loans:

• Federal Loan Guarantees for Innovative Energy Technologies
• Rural Energy for America Program Guaranteed Loan Program (REAP Loan)
• Biorefinery Assistance Program/Biorefinery Assistance Loan Guarantees

Clean Cities & Stakeholders Recent Awards:

• Carolina Blue Skies Initiative Recipient of ARRA Grant Award
  (News & Observer Article)
• NCSU & Wake Tech Selected for a DOE Grant to Hold 48 Alternative Fuel Workshops Across the Country!
• City of Durham Clean Diesel Truck Replacement
• Durham Public Schools Hybrid Bus Conversion
  North Carolina Department of Environment & Natural Resources
  Mobile Source Emission Reduction Grant
  Award Amount: $51,250
• Thalle Construction Equipment Retrofit