NYPA offers customers grant services for clean energy projects
State and federal funding opportunities are available to help you support clean energy projects including building electrification, geothermal and thermal energy networks, distributed energy resources (solar, storage), electric grid reliability, microgrids and virtual power plants, electric vehicle infrastructure, and more.
NYPA can help simplify and prioritize program choices, and identify the programs that best meet your needs. Our team can help strengthen your application with a compelling project narrative that better positions your submission in a competitive program environment.
We offer the following services:
- Funding identification – identify and prioritize funding opportunities with the highest potential value
- Streamlined application development – Simplify program requirements with expert insights, feedback, and recommendations, making the overall application process more efficient and effective
- Strengthen the application - Access NYPA expertise with 1:1 project feedback and NYPA-issued letters of support
NYPA can help you access state and federal funding opportunities, and can support your application for state and federal programs:
- State programs such as those available through NYSERDA, DEC, and others
- Federal programs like those available through IIJA, EPA, DOE, DOT, USDA, and others
Contact your Key Account Manager to learn more, or to request a copy of the Grant Compliance Playbook.
In addition to the Grant services programs, NYPA offers additional programs for specific customers:
- Municipal electric utilities, and rural electric cooperatives are eligible to participate in the Municipal Alternative Vehicle Program (MAP)
- Municipal electric utilities, and rural electric cooperatives plus governmental customers are eligible to participate in the Tree Power Program.
- NYPA supply customers or Executive Order 22 Affected Entities subject to BuildSmart 2025 requirements can learn more about the BuildSmart Program.
FAQs & Eligibility
Local governments, NYC and NYS agencies, Higher Education, K-12 schools, Muni-Coops, Healthcare, and NYPA's economic development customers.
Funding identification and prioritization, project feedback, support for grant writing, policy alignment, letters of support, and compliance best practices.
NYPA can support your application to state programs like those available through NYSERDA, DEC, and others.
NYPA also supports federal programs such as those available through IIJA, DOE, DOT, USDA, and others.