Energy Efficiency Grants

Applications for 2024 have closed

 

C3's Energy Efficiency Grants are available to small businesses for energy efficiency upgrades (appliances, lighting, heating/cooling systems, etc). Our goal is to help businesses achieve emissions reductions and financial savings through capital investment. Grants are up to $2,000 each!

2024 Application Timeline

Applications accepted through: *Applications for 2024 have closed.*

Final awards announced: Fall of 2024

Eligibility Criteria

  1. Have a business license in the City of Charlottesville or County of Albemarle.

  2. Qualify as a Microbusiness by Virginia SBSD criteria (25 employees or fewer).

  3. Preference will be given to Woman- or Minority-owned Business as defined by Virginia SBSD criteria. SWaM certification is desired, but equivalence is acceptable with valid documentation.

  4. Proposed upgrade must have demonstrable savings of energy usage and/or reduction of emissions. C3 can help with this step! Just contact us at corp@theclimatecollaborative.org.

Energy Efficiency Grant Application

If you don’t know exactly how to save energy at your business, just let us know in the description on the grant form! We can visit your business and quickly identify your best opportunities for cost and energy savings.

Know a Business that Qualifies? let them know!

Download this one-page flyer about the program and check out stories of our past winners below! Questions? Email corp@theclimatecollaborative.org.

 

Thank you!

Thanks to our community partners at the City of Charlottesville Office of Economic Development and an anonymous donor for making these grants possible! Offered in partnership with the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce, the Community Investment Collaborative, and the Central Virginia Small Business Development Corporation.