Updates and Announcements

Last Updated: February 23, 2026

Investment and public comment news

In order to keep you up to date with any announced investments as well as funding opportunities and opportunities for public comment, we will be maintaining this page. Send us any Climate Commitment Act investment developments we may have missed!

Keep track of Clean Energy Federal Funding Opportunities

FundHubWA connects you to state and federal climate and clean energy funding opportunities to help improve your home, business, or community. We make it easy for you or your organization to find grants, tax incentives, and other funding opportunities that make Washington cleaner, healthier, and more resilient.

View funding opportunities at: https://fundhub.wa.gov/funding-opportunities/

Commerce unveils new resources to access clean energy funding:

• Federal Clean Energy Tax Credit Assistance Program (CETCAP)
  • Get personalized help to save money on clean energy projects
• Federal Funds Grant Writing Assistance Program.
  • Attend Moses Lake (October 6th registration) or Union Gap (October 9th registration) free federal grants workshops.  More information here.

Commerce selects Guidehouse to administer IRA Home Rebate programs: These programs will provide rebates to low- and moderate-income homes for home improvements like energy efficiency and home electrification measures.

• Home Appliance Rebate Program (HARP) $69 million: HARP provides consumers with rebates at the point of sale on a range of highly efficient electric equipment and electrification projects.
• Whole Home Efficiency Rebate Program (HOMES) $64 million: HOMES provides rebates to homeowners for whole-house energy savings retrofits. Rebates vary by the amount of energy savings and income qualification.

Other Maps

CCA Dashboard: Climate Commitment Act projects, awards and appropriations is available on the state’s climate.wa.gov website. 

Washington’s EV Charging Program Funding Dashboard

Climate Commitment Act investments from programs run by the Recreation and Conservation Office can be viewed here.

Ecology maintains a map of Washington’s Air Quality Monitoring Network as part of their Overburdened Communities Highly Impacted by Air Pollution initiative work.

Washington’s EV Mapping and Planning (EV-MAP) Tool (WSDOT).

The HEAL Act Budgets and Funding Dashboard was published by OFM in November 2024 with a substantial share of the tracked investments coming fom the Climate Commitment Act.

Federal maps include:

• White House Investing In America map, including state factsheets – NO LONGER AVAILABLE;
• Investments from EPA Under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act;
• Department of Energy’s Building America’s Clean Energy Future map

Investment Announcements

Anticipated Mapped Investments 

• Apply now: Grants available to strengthen Washington’s power grid: $17.5 million is available for grid resilience and reliability project funding for WA utilities.  Commerce is accepting applications to support the construction of grid resilience and reliability projects for qualifying utilities throughout Washington state.  Complete Applications due before noon on November 20th.
• Request for Applications: Tribal Electric Boats Program: The Tribal Electric Boats Program (TEBP), funded by the Climate Commitment Act, is awarding $4,750,000 to tribes to support the electrification and hybridization of marine propulsion power for tribal fishing vessels, including boats for research and patrol activities. Grants include marine charging equipment needed to power the boats. (Applications are due by October 23, 2025, at 5 p.m.)
• Commerce’s Energy Programs in Communities (EPIC)
  • Anaerobic Digester Development (Dairy Digester) grants (applications were due December 2025).  Awards announcement expected February 2026.
  • Clean Energy Grants: Approximately $32 million with applications due in November 2025.
  • Clean energy siting and permitting grants available: (applications due before in October 2025)..
• Active Transportation Grant Programs, including Safe Routes to Schools and Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Grant Program Active Transportation Funding Programs Update and Project Status – 2025.
• Apply now (closed through February 11th): Grants to help local governments adopt automated solar permit software: “Commerce is now accepting applications to support cities and counties adopt automated permit processing software for residential solar. Grants of $20,000 or more will help building departments save time and money on permit review and accelerate solar installation at the local level. Commerce plans to award 28 grants totaling $570,000 to local governments to aid in adopting SolarAPP+.”
• E-Bike Lending Library and Ownership Grant Program: “The state legislature funded this grant program to help more people use e-bikes. Organizations receiving this grant can set up or continue administering e-bike libraries which provide a cost-free opportunity for people to try riding and integrating e-bikes into their lifestyles for a fixed period of time. Grantees should design their lending libraries in collaboration with communities that will use them.”
• Act now: Funding available for thermal energy pilot projects
• Tribal consultation grants: Applications for the 2025-27 biennium were accepted between Feb 25 and May 15, 2025.