Up to $10,000,000 available under INDIGO Program in the United States

This program funds financial incentives for industry projects that demonstrate significant benefits to the electrical grid, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, achieve California’s clean energy goals, and exceed compliance requirements.

The program’s goal is to deploy cutting-edge, emerging technologies at California industrial facilities to promote electrification and load flexibility, reduce fossil fuel and thermal energy usage, and reduce criteria air pollutants and carbon footprints.

This program is open to existing industrial facilities, utilities, equipment manufacturers, energy service companies, project aggregators, and project developers who propose to implement projects in California’s industrial sector. Entities, facilities, and projects that are associated with the production or processing of oil and gas are ineligible.

The CEC’s INDIGO Program will assist California’s industrial facilities in achieving the following:

• Emission Reductions: Adopt electrification and other eligible decarbonization technologies listed in Section II to reduce annual GHG emissions and other criteria air emissions at industrial processing facilities.
• Electrical Grid Support: Adopt commercially available and emerging technologies needed to support grid reliability, especially during net peak periods.
• Benefits to Priority Populations: Reduce criteria air pollutants and have direct community engagement and support, especially in low income or disadvantaged communities.

Project Focus

• This solicitation focuses on deploying industrial decarbonization technologies that are cutting-edge emerging technologies as defined in Section I.B. The proposed technology(ies) and project must achieve at least one of the following goals at the industrial demonstration site(s). Additional points could be awarded for meeting multiple goals.
  • Electrify some or all industrial processes
  • Maximize GHG emission reductions
  • Drive scalability and application of project technology to other facilities/industries/processes
  • Reduce electrical demand during net peak periods
  • Provide air pollution benefits to priority populations

Funding Information

• There is up to $46,200,000 available for grants awarded under this solicitation. The minimum funding amount for each project is $4,000,000. The maximum funding amount is $10,000,000.

Eligibility Requirements

• Eligible Applicants:
  • Business Individual Nonprofit Other Legal Entity Public Agency Tribal Government
  • Applications are open to existing industrial facilities located in California and to utilities, equipment manufacturers, energy service providers, aggregators, and developers who are implementing cutting-edge, emerging technologies in California industries. The applicant may include multiple industrial facilities located in California in one application.
• Eligible Geographies:
  • Food and beverage industries and related support facilities that are receiving funding for the same project, or portions of the same project, from the CEC’s Food Production Investment Program (FPIP) are ineligible for funding from the INDIGO Program or to use funds received from FPIP as match funds.

For more information, visit California Energy Commission (CEC).