Funding to support studies into improved energy supply arrangements 

The Regional and Remote Communities Reliability Fund - Microgrids (the program) was announced by the Australian Government to support feasibility studies into more reliable, secure and cost effective energy supply to regional and remote communities in Australia.

The program will fund feasibility studies looking at microgrid technologies to replace, upgrade or supplement existing electricity supply arrangements in off-grid and fringe-of-grid communities located in regional and remote areas.

The objective of the program is to support regional and remote communities to investigate whether replacing, upgrading or supplementing a microgrid or upgrading existing off-grid and fringe-of-grid supply with microgrid or related new energy technologies would be cost effective.

What are the eligibility criteria?

To be eligible you must:

• be an entity incorporated in Australia and a trading corporation

Your trading activities must either:

• form a sufficiently significant proportion of the corporation’s overall activities as to merit it being described as a trading corporation
• are a substantial and not merely peripheral activity of the corporation.

We can only accept applications if:

• your project is located in an inner regional, outer regional, remote or very remote area as defined by the Australian Statistical Geographic Standard (ASGS) Remoteness Area.

Check the full eligibility details in the Grant opportunity guidelines.