First recipients revealed for Carbon Innovation Grants Program

The WA Government has announced the first round of grant recipients under the Carbon Innovation Grants Program (CIGP).

This program focuses on cutting-edge technologies to remove, reduce or offset emissions from industrial processes.

Nine organisations will share $4.24m in funding to embark on projects in WA which have demonstrated benefits to heavy industry and the reduction of hard-to-abate emissions.

The nine companies that will receive the funding include Aurizon Operations, CSBP, CSIRO, Airbridge, First Mode, Australia VRFB ESS Company, Wallis Drilling, Tronox and Sea-Quester Offshore.

The money will be used to support the company’s technologies to progress to market readiness and commercialisation in line with the WA Climate Policy.

The Department of Water and Environmental Regulation administers the $15m program through a competitive process.

Around $4.3m of funding will be available in each round until 2025 when round three projects are expected to be awarded.

WA Climate Action Minister Reece Whitby congratulated companies who received the grant.

“The Carbon Innovation Grants Program will fund feasibility studies, pilot projects and capital works which will influence the acceleration of WA’s transition to net zero emissions by 2050,” he said.

“By supporting industry to explore innovative solutions to decarbonisation, we are aiming to avoid a potential 74mt of lifetime greenhouse gas emissions from industrial processes.”