Powering Business Grants

  • Grants from $2,500-$75,000 to support SME’s to become more energy efficient
  • Will open in July, 2025
  • Express your interest by contacting and our team

The Powering Business Grants supports eligible South Australian small and medium businesses and not-for-profit organisations to invest in energy efficient equipment or improvements to reduce and manage energy use and costs.

Key Requirements

The Powering Business Grants program is a part of the $154.2 million Business Growth Fund (BGF) formerly the Economic Recovery Fund, aims to assist business and industry in key areas to grow secure, well-paid jobs, improve productivity, deliver efficiencies, increase exports and support innovative, value adding technologies in South Australia.

The South Australian Government will hold a series of funding rounds targeting specific sectors and key government objectives.

Further details will be available once the guidelines are released.

What is eligible for funding?

Grants from $2,500-$75,000 to support SME’s to become more energy efficient.

Funding can go towards energy efficient equipment or improvements to reduce and manage energy use and costs.

Further details will be available once the guidelines are released.

What companies are eligible for funding?

Eligible South Australian SMEs.

Eligibility criteria will be available once the guidelines are released.

Is this grant competitive or entitlement based?

Competitive. Your application will be assessed among other applications by a judging panel.

How can I increase my chances of winning this grant?

By engaging an accredited government grants consultant, such as Avant Group.

Competitive grants often require significant business case development and project analysis to support the application, this may include detailed presentations supporting the project’s merit, projected sales, cost-benefit analysis and more.

As part of your engagement with Avant Group, your account manager will assess the required documents and will provide the following as needed to support your grant submission.

Grant application writeup including a detailed presentation illustrating how the grant funding will contribute to your project, how the funding will contribute to the project’s budget, a project milestone plan, delivery timeline, impact on employment if applicable and a breakdown of the management and leadership team for the project

  • Industry analysis presentation
  • Competitor Analysis Presentation
  • Marketing and Sales Analysis Presentation
  • 3-5 year Cashflow Forecast
  • 3-5 year Balance Sheet Forecast
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis of Grant Funding
  • End-to-end grant application including information collating, analysis and application writing
  • CAPEX (Capital Expenditure) cost-benefit analysis
  • Stakeholder relations and Risk Mitigation Plans
  • Any other relevant forecasting that will support your application

How can I get help with my application? Or know if I’m likely to win funding?

Avant Group offers a no-obligation assessment of your eligibility for funding and will assess your likelihood of a successful grant application.