Re-tooling for Climate Change

This government grant program is targeted at sustainable manufacturing projects.  To be eligible, the applicant must be a manufacturing company with a turnover of less than $100M, and the project must improve the energy or water efficiency of the production process.

Applications for the Re-tooling for Climate Change are assessed on a continuous basis.

Key elements of a competitive grant application

This is a competitive grant program.  A successful applicant will provide the evaluation panel with concise and succinct information that demonstrates the merits of the project.  The application should:

1. Show that your project will tell a good story. Explain how the project could be repeated by other organisations, and that you have a plan to communicate your experience and results.

2.  Provide evidence that proves the project is beyond business-as-usual. The grant is not intended for upgrades or changes that would have happened anyway.    

3.  Clearly explain what the manufacturing process looks like today, what the planned changes are, and what the process will look like afterwards.  Use schematics, sankey diagrams, and other visual aids.  Clearly show how energy or water flows through your process, and how the project changes these flows.

4.  Demonstrate credibility in the project budget and in the estimated outcomes.  This can be achieved by supplying an independent consultant's report, an independent engineering report, references to supporting documents, or additional background materials.  Letters of support may also be beneficial.

5.  Explain the net environmental impact.  Show that you have considered how your project might effect upstream or downstream processes.  For example, if the project improves the efficiency of your process, but also requires more pre-processing of your inputs or feedstock, then you must expand your scope to also account for the extra energy expenditure that your suppliers must invest to provide you with the higher-grade feedstock.  The net environmental impact must be positive.

6.  Show that you have the staff, the skills, the contractors, and the funding to deliver the project.

7.  Don't underestimate the amount of effort required to prepare an application that will score well against the merit criteria.

HAC has worked on many grant applications for a wide range of organisations.  We have a good record of success, and great references.  Our team has the techincal ability and commercial acumen to take your project through, from engineering design and finance to application preparation and submission.  

Contact us for a no-obligation discussion about your project or any aspect of the grant process, or download our capability statement on grant preparation.

More information can be found on the Government Re-tooling for Climate Change website.