Cleantech Grants, Awards, Incentives - Weekly Update (Mar 19th)

Skipso Weekly Digest
Cleantech Grants, Awards, Incentives

March 12th – March 19th 2010

enabling sustainable innovation www.skipso.com

Summary Skipso Cleantech Grants

• Number of Grants: 640

• Value of Grants: $39billion*

• Countries Covered: 40+

• New Grants this Week: 7

• Latest update: March 19th, 2010

*Includes funds allocated for production incentives, loans, tax credits and expired grants

SKIPSO WEEKLY DIGEST: MARCH 12th – March 19th enabling sustainable innovation www.skipso.com

This Week on Skipso

• 7 new Cleantech Grants, Awards and Incentives added to Skipso’s funding
database

• Focus this week: US and UK Cleantech Start-up Competitions, US State
Incentives (Minnesota), new Scotland Waste, Recycling and Air Quality
grants

• Live Skipso Open Innovation Challenges: University CleanTech Challenge –
Phase 2 (£5k Cash Award) The Green Lighting Challenge ($10k Cash Award)

• 10 grants and awards approaching application deadline

• The Skipso funding section this week has reached 640 Cleantech grants,
awards, incentives and over $39b in value, all are accessible for free on
http://www.skipso.com/grants/grid.html


US Cleantech Start-up Competition (1 of 2)

Green:Net Launchpad 2010

• Grant Type: Start-ups
• Amount: Recognition
• Geographic Focus: US
• Deadline: 19th March 2010
http://events.earth2tech.com/greennet/10/launchpad/

• Are you part of a new startup that is leveraging information technology — the Internet,
computing and communication networks — to help remake the energy industry and fight
climate change? If so, we’re looking for you. We’re officially taking submissions for new
startups, or companies with new products, that will launch at our conference. Submit your
company’s entry below.


US Cleantech Start-up Competition (2 of 2)

California Clean Innovation “Fast
Pitch” Competition

• Amount: $10,000
• Geographic Focus: US
• Deadline: 11th April 2010
http://www.cacleaninnovation.com/fast_pitch.htm

• The Fast Pitch Competition provides early stage, clean technology companies a
platform to showcase their business to a panel of Venture Capital judges and a wide array of
conference attendees. All participants will receive valuable, interactive feedback and attention
from industry leaders and professional investors.


UK Green Start-up Competition

Venture Candy – Green Category

• Amount: £50,000 in advertising + business support
• Geographic Focus: UK
• Deadline: 6th April 2010
http://www.venturecandy.co.uk/index.html

• Venture Candy rewards talented businesses with the exposure and profile they need to
transform themselves from budding enterprises into talked-about brands.

• In the Green section we’re looking for businesses whose primary objective is to make our
environment a cleaner, greener more enjoyable place in which to live.


Scotland Cleantech Grants (1 of 3)

Zero Waste Scotland Plastics Capital
Grant Programme

• Grant Type: Installation Projects
• Amount: £5,000,000 fund
• Geographic Focus: UK, Scotland
• Deadline: 30th August 2010
http://www.wrap.org.uk/wrap_corporate/funding/capital_grants/spp001_funding.html

• Zero Waste Scotland is launching a £5 million capital grant programme on behalf of the
Scottish Government to develop plastics reprocessing infrastructure in Scotland.

• The programme can provide financial assistance towards facilities capable of sorting, recycling
and reprocessing a range of plastic waste, thereby diverting a minimum of 20,000
additional tonnes from landfill per annum.



Construction Waste Recycling and
Infrastructure Programme

• Amount: £180,000
• Deadline: 31st March 2011

http://www.wrap.org.uk/wrap_corporate/funding/capital_grants/
mrf100_construction.html

• The Construction Waste Recycling and Infrastructure Programme is provided by the Waste
and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) to stimulate investment in additional
processing capacity for facilities that process and recycle construction, demolition and
excavation waste from construction sites into reusable materials for re-processors.



Scotland Air Quality Grants

• Amount: 30% of total project costs
• Deadline: Ongoing
http://www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/scotland/Scotland-Welcome-page/Business-and-Public-Sector-in-
Scotland/Grants/Local-authority-Air-Quality-Grants

• Local authorities across Scotland can receive grants to help them fit equipment to their
vehicle fleets that reduces harmful emissions. It is hoped the funding will enable local
authorities to improve air quality as part of their statutory local air quality management
responsibilities.


US State Incentives (Minnesota)

Minnesota Xcel Energy -
Solar*Rewards Program

• Grant Type: Production Incentive
• Amount: $ 2.25/W DC
• Geographic Focus: US, Minnesota
• Deadline: Ongoing
http://www.xcelenergy.com/Minnesota/Residential/RenewableEnergy/Solar_Rewards/Pages/home.aspx

• Xcel Energy's Solar*Rewards Program provides an incentive for residential and
commercial customers that install grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) systems of at least 0.5
kilowatts (kW) and less than 40 kW.

• The incentive takes the form of an up-front rebate of $2.25 per watt DC.


Skipso – Open Innovation Lab (1 of 2)
Refer a friend – Win $1,000!

The Green Lighting Challenge

• Grant Type: Prize / Award
• Amount: $10,000 / $1,000 referral fee
• Geographic Focus: Italy / International
• Deadline: 26th March 2010

http://www.skipso.com/innovation.html

• GC is looking for innovative solutions and products to enhance the performance of its LED-based
product line and extend its functional application to a wider range of fittings.

• Win $10,000 cash award for submitting solutions that will allow GC to meet the required
illumination coefficients and to expand its Green Lighting fittings to motorways, urban
areas, sports installations and other public areas.


Skipso – Open Innovation Lab (2 of 2)

University CleanTech Challenge

• Grant Type: Prize / Award
• Amount: £5,000
• Geographic Focus: Europe
• Deadline: 19th March 2010 (Phase 2)
http://www.cleantechnologychallenge.com

• The CleanTech Challenge is a student competition jointly hosted by London Business School
and University College London where students from top European business and engineering
schools compete in cross-functional teams. The challenge is to develop innovative clean technology
ideas from the concept phase to a stage in which they would attract Series A funding or otherwise
be self-sustainable.


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