Funding for carbon capture, use and storage pilot projects or pre-commercial projects aimed at reducing emissions

Grants for pilot or pre-commercial carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS) projects in Australia to reduce emissions, supporting projects with funding, governance and evidence of co-contribution.

Projects must be completed by 2025-06-30.

To be eligible you must have an Australian business number (ABN). You must also be one of the following entities:

- an entity incorporated in Australia and a trading or financial corporation

- a foreign corporation

- an incorporated trustee on behalf of a trust where the trustee is also a trading, financial or foreign corporation

- an Australian State/Territory Government agency or body

- an authority of the Commonwealth such as the Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation.

If you're an entity incorporated in Australia and a trading or financial corporation, your trading or financial activities must either:

- form a sufficiently significant proportion of the corporation's overall activities as to merit it being described as a trading or financial corporation

- be a substantial and not merely peripheral activity of the corporation.

We can only accept applications:

- where you can provide evidence from your board (or chief executive officer or equivalent if there is no board) that the project is supported, and that you can complete the project and meet the costs of the project not covered by grant funding

- where you can provide evidence of how you will provide your share of project costs such as an accountant declaration that confirms you can fund your share of the project costs, including any ineligible expenditure

- from a Foreign Corporation where you and/or your sub-contractors are not on the Consolidated List.

An accountant declaration template is available to provide evidence of project costs. Joint applications are acceptable provided you have a lead applicant who is the main driver of the project and is eligible to apply.