Updated 31 October 2026
Grants and funding for energy and utilities businesses
Schemes open today that name energy and utilities businesses in their published criteria, or fund the kind of work energy and utilities businesses do. Read from the funders' own pages and re-checked daily.
8 open today. Whether your business qualifies for any of them depends on your legal form, your size, your age and where you are, which is what the check does.
Which of these can you actually get?
Enter your company number. We read each funder’s own page against your business and tell you which fit, which do not, and why.
Check my businessWhat kind of funding these are
- Grants
- 4
- Loans
- 2
- Equity investment
- 1
- Tax reliefs
- 1
A grant is money you keep. A tax relief lowers a bill rather than arriving as cash. In-kind support is training, credits or expert time instead of money. Loans and equity have to be paid back or bought back, and are worth treating as a different decision entirely.
Who can apply
Every one of these has published criteria. Across the 8, the conditions that come up most are that you must:
- work in a named sector5 of 8
- be under a headcount limit3 of 8
- be a particular kind of organisation3 of 8
- be under a turnover limit2 of 8
- be spending within a range1 of 8
Which of them you meet depends on your legal form, size, age and where you are registered. That is what the check reads for you, scheme by scheme, and it quotes the funder’s own sentence beside each answer.
What the money is for
- Business growth 4
- Premises 4
- Research and development 4
- Property improvements 3
- Equipment 2
- Net zero and decarbonisation 2
- Job creation 1
- Staff training 1
How to apply
You apply to the funder, never to us. Every scheme above links straight to its own page, and that page is the only thing that decides whether you get it.
Before you spend an afternoon on a form, three things are worth checking: that you are inside the deadline; that you have not already started or paid for the work, which a great many grants refuse; and that you can fund the share they expect you to.
Most refusals are not close calls. They are a rule the applicant never saw, in a sentence on the funder’s own page.
Where else to look
The government publishes its own list, free, and you should use it. What is above is wider than that list, because it also holds council schemes, tax reliefs and in-kind support that Find a Grant does not carry — but if you only want a list, start there.
Find a grant, on GOV.UKThe 8 open today
Grant
Property Development Grant
Welsh Government
Up to£8,000,000
A discretionary grant from the Welsh Government funding the development, extension, renovation or conversion of commercial sites and premises across Wales, where the eligible cost of a project exceeds its completed value.
Closes 31 December 2035The funder’s page
Loan
Charity Bank Impact Lending
Charity Bank
Up to£7,000,000
Charity Bank offers secured loans of £250,000 to £5-7 million to UK charities and social-purpose organisations, and to impact-led private businesses in housing, health and social care, children's care or environmental sectors. Funds can be used for refinancing, property purchase, development, refurbishment, energy efficiency and cashflow.
RollingThe funder’s page
Loan
Regional Growth Loan Scheme - East of England
The FSE Group
Up to£500,000
A loan scheme run by The FSE Group offering growth finance to established SMEs across the East of England. Loans range from £50,000 to £500,000 for businesses with turnover of at least £100,000 and a clear plan for significant growth.
RollingThe funder’s page
Grant
Crawley Greentech Business Growth Fund
Crawley Borough Council
Up to£175,000
A £1 million fund from Crawley Borough Council that gives targeted financial support to small and medium-sized green technology and green construction businesses in Crawley. It offers start-up grants for new businesses and larger development grants for existing businesses refining a prototype.
RollingThe funder’s page
Grant
AD:VENTURE Growth Grant
West Yorkshire Combined Authority
Up to£5,000
AD:VENTURE's Growth Grant offers West Yorkshire SMEs £1,500 to £5,000, covering up to 50% of eligible capital project costs, for growth investment such as equipment and IT. It is paid in arrears after the applicant has joined the AD:VENTURE programme and worked with a Business Manager on a diagnostic and action plan.
RollingThe funder’s page
Grant
Great British Energy (GBE) Supply Chain Fund: Offshore Wind and Networks
Great British Energy
A capital grant fund of up to £300 million to expand UK manufacturing capacity for components that are in short supply in the offshore wind and electricity networks sectors. Grants must pay for building new manufacturing facilities or extending existing ones in the UK, and the finished project must mainly produce one or more of the listed 'Critical Components'. Applications are assessed in rounds, with the window closing on 10 December 2026 unless the budget runs out sooner.
Closes 10 December 2026The funder’s page
Tax relief
UK Investment Zones Tax Site Incentives
Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
Businesses investing in one of 13 UK Investment Zones get access to a 10-year package of tax reliefs on designated sites plus support for skills, infrastructure and innovation. On designated tax sites this includes full Stamp Duty Land Tax relief, zero-rate employer National Insurance on new employees' earnings up to £25,000 a year for 36 months, a 100% first-year capital allowance on plant and machinery, an enhanced structures and buildings allowance, and full business rates relief for eligible new or expanding businesses.
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Equity
Venture Capital Schemes (EIS, SEIS, VCT) — raise investment for your company
HM Revenue & Customs
Venture capital schemes let small and medium UK companies raise equity investment by offering their investors tax reliefs. The Enterprise Investment Scheme, Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme, and Venture Capital Trusts each set different limits on how much a company can raise and different eligibility conditions on company size, age and trade.
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