Grants in WA

The Co-funded Exploration Drilling Program supports explorers by covering up to half of their exploratory drilling expenses. It's a flagship initiative of the Exploration Incentive Scheme (EIS), running twice yearly and refunding up to 50% for innovative drilling projects, with specific limits.

Regional Economic Development Grants fund projects that drive economic growth in regional Western Australia.

The Feasibility stream of the Value Add Investment Grants (VAIG) program aims to promote new investments and reduce risk for companies looking to grow, diversify, or relocate their value-adding and processing operations in Western Australia. Eligible businesses can apply for funding to support planning or feasibility activities, which can help them make investment decisions for capital investment or expansion projects in agriculture, food and beverage manufacturing or other value-added processing.

Round 2 of the Indigenous Rangers Program is now open, with a $165M funding pool over three years to support the long-term employment of Indigenous Australians. Grants starting at $650K aim to enhance the management of Country in line with Traditional Owners' priorities, delivering environmental, cultural, social, and economic benefits.

The Future Made in Australia (FMA) Innovation Fund will offer up to $1.5 billion in grants to drive pre-commercial innovation, demonstration, and deployment of renewable energy and low emission technologies, accelerating Australia’s journey to a net zero economy.

The Investment Attraction Fund (IAF) supports WA-based projects in new energies sectors—including green iron and steel, critical minerals (battery and processing), renewable hydrogen, and carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS)—to diversify the economy, scale up local businesses, and create local jobs.

The Industrial Transformation Stream (ITS) is designed to support the decarbonisation of existing industrial facilities located in regional Australia. Through targeted funding, the program enables projects that reduce Scope 1 and/or Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions. This can be achieved through a range of approaches, including electrification, energy efficiency improvements, the integration of renewable energy technologies, fuel switching, and the development of enabling infrastructure such as energy storage and demand management systems.

This program co-funds energy efficiency and electrification upgrades for local governments to deliver reduced energy bills and emissions from local government owned and/or operated facilities.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced $46.3 million in funding for Round 2 of the Community Batteries Funding Program. This program aims to deploy community batteries across Australia to lower energy bills, cut emissions and reduce pressure on the electricity grid.