Skipso Weekly Digest

Cleantech Grants, Awards, Incentives

February 12th – February 19th 2010

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 Summary Skipso Cleantech Grants

• Number of Grants: 607

• Value of Grants: $39billion*

• Countries Covered: 40+

• New Grants this Week: 8

• Latest update: February 19th, 2010

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

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 This Week on Skipso

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

database

•  Focus this week: European Solar Prize, UK Wave & Tidal R&D Funds, UK R&D
Crop Protection Competition, Colorado Water Conservation Grants,
Australian Water Efficiency Grants

•  Skipso Open Innovation Challenges are live: University CleanTech Challenge

(£5k Cash Award) The Green Lighting Challenge ($10k Cash Award) and the
Concepts for CO2 Offsetting Challenge ($5k Cash Award)

•  12 grants and awards approaching application deadline

•  The Skipso funding section this week has reached 607 Cleantech grants,
awards, incentives and over $39b in value, all are accessible for free on
http://www.skipso.com/grants/grid.html

SKIPSO WEEKLY DIGEST: FEBRUARY 12th – FEBRUARY 19th enabling sustainable innovation www.skipso.com
 European Solar Prize

2010 European Solar Prize

•  Grant Type: Prize / Award

•  Amount: Recognition
•  Geographic Focus: Europe
•  Deadline: 30th June 2010
http://www.eurosolar.de/en/

•  Established in 1994 the European Solar Prize has since been given for outstanding projects
and individual achievements in making an exemplary contribution to the use of renewable
energy.

•  The panel of judges will assess the applications received directly and also the proposals by the
EUROSOLAR section members, chosen from submissions rewarded already at the national
levels.

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 UK Wave and Tidal Grants (1 of 2)

Wave and Tidal Stream Energy

Technologies Collaborative Funding

•  Grant Type: R&D

•  Amount: £9,000,000 fund value
•  Geographic Focus: UK, South West
•  Deadline: 29th April 2010
http://www.greengrantsmachine.co.uk/Scheme.aspx?
WCI=htmView&WCU=CBC=Document,STATE=DSCODE%3dJ4BUKGGLIV%7epSCHEMEID%3d239-
S34710%7epUDATA%3dSCHEMEVIEWBACK%3dHOME,DOCID=D2015631

•  Financial assistance is available to carry out collaborative research, development and

demonstration of wave and tidal stream energy technologies.

•  Wave and Tidal Stream Energy Technologies: Reducing Costs and Improving Performance
is a competition funded by the Technology Strategy Board in partnership with the South West of
England Regional Development Agency.

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 UK Wave and Tidal Grants (2 of 2)

Wave and Tidal Stream Energy

Technologies: Underpinning Deployment

•  Grant Type: R&D

•  Amount: £3,000,000 fund value
•  Geographic Focus: UK, South West
•  Deadline: 21st April 2010
http://www.greengrantsmachine.co.uk/Scheme.aspx?
WCI=htmView&WCU=CBC=Document,STATE=DSCODE%3dJ4BUKGGLIV%7epSCHEMEID%3d239-
S34711%7epUDATA%3dSCHEMEVIEWBACK%3dHOME,DOCID=D2015630

•  Wave and Tidal Stream Energy Technologies: Underpinning Deployment is a competition funded
by the Technology Strategy Board.

•  The government believes that wave and tidal energy can play an increasingly important role
in providing the UK's future energy mix, and has the potential to provide up to 20% of the
UK's electricity needs by 2050.

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 UK Crop Protection Competition

New Approaches to Crop Protection

Competition

•  Grant Type: R&D

•  Amount: £13,000,000 fund value
•  Geographic Focus: UK
•  Deadline: 25th February 2010
http://www.innovateuk.org/competitions/newapproachestocropprotectioncompetition.ashx

•  A collaborative R&D competition with up to £13m investment to help crop growers

(arable and horticulture, forage and non-food crops) respond to the dual challenges of
increasing the productivity of crops while reducing the environmental impact of
crop production.

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 Colorado Water Grants (1 of 2)

Colorado Water Conservation

Planning Grants

•  Grant Type: Installation Projects

•  Amount: $50,000
•  Geographic Focus: US, Colorado
•  Deadline: 30th February 2012
http://cwcb.state.co.us/Conservation/WaterEfficiencyGrantProgram/
WaterConservationPlanningProjects/

•  The Water Efficiency Grant Program provides financial assistance to covered entities that
are seeking to develop or update their water conservation plans, helping to promote more
meaningful water conservation statewide. Approved grants are available for public viewing.

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 Colorado Water Grants (2 of 2)

Colorado Water Conservation

Implementation Projects

•  Grant Type: Installation Projects

•  Amount: $50,000
•  Geographic Focus: US, Colorado
•  Deadline: 30th February 2012
http://cwcb.state.co.us/Conservation/WaterEfficiencyGrantProgram/
WaterConservationPlanningProjects/

•  The Water Efficiency Grant Program provides financial assistance to covered entities other
state or local governmental entities, and agencies that are seeking to perform the
implementation of the water efficiency goals outlined in the entities approved Water
Conservation Plan. Approved grants are available for public viewing.

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 Australian Water Efficiency Grants (1 of 2)

Private Irrigation Infrastructure

Program for South Australia

•  Grant Type: Installation Projects

•  Amount: Not Disclosed
•  Geographic Focus: Australia
•  Deadline: 8th April 2010
http://www.environment.gov.au/water/programs/srwui/piip-sa.html

•  The Australian Government is calling for applications under the Private Irrigation
Infrastructure Program for South Australia as part of Water for the Future. The program
name is abbreviated to PIIP-SA and hereafter referred to on this page as 'the Program'.

•  The Program will fund projects that improve the efficiency and environmental benefits
of irrigation water use and management in the South Australian Murray-Darling Basin.

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 Australian Water Efficiency Grants (2 of 2)

Private Irrigation Modernisation

Planning Assistance

•  Grant Type: Installation Projects

•  Amount: $5.8 billion program
•  Geographic Focus: Australia
•  Deadline: 29th Otober 2010
http://www.environment.gov.au/water/policy-programs/srwui/irrigation-
modernisation/index.html

•  The Irrigation Modernisation Planning Assistance is part of the $5.8 billion

Sustainable Rural Water Use and Infrastructure program which is funding key rural
water projects to improve the efficiency and productivity of water use and
management.The scope and detail of a modernisation plan varies with the particular
characteristics of the district to which it applies.

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 Skipso – Open Innovation Lab (1 of 3)
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: 8th March 2010

http://www.skipso.com

•  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.

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 Skipso – Open Innovation Lab (2 of 3)
Refer a friend – Win $500!

Concepts for CO2 Project Sourcing

•  Grant Type: Prize / Award

•  Amount: $5,000 / $500 referral fee
•  Geographic Focus: Developing Countries
•  Deadline: 10th March 2010
http://www.skipso.com

•  Myclimate, The Climate Protection Partnership, is looking for innovative approaches to secure and
expand the sourcing of carbon offsetting projects.

Win $5,000 for submitting the most compelling concept for myclimate to find and approach
Cleantech companies, technology providers and other organizations that apply and implement
CO2-reducing technologies and initiatives in developing countries, mainly in the field of
renewable energy and energy efficiency.

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 Skipso – Open Innovation Lab (3 of 3)

University CleanTech Challenge

•  Grant Type: Prize / Award

•  Amount: £5,000
•  Geographic Focus: Europe
•  Deadline: 21st February 2010 (Phase 1)
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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