Design technologies carbon capture, use and storage assets and shared hub infrastructure

To be eligible you must:

• have an Australian business number (ABN)
• be non-tax-exempt
• be registered for the goods and services tax (GST).

You must also be one of the following:

• an entity incorporated in Australia and a trading corporation
• a foreign corporation
• an incorporated trustee on behalf of a trust where the trustee is also a trading, financial or foreign corporation
• an Australian State/Territory Government agency or body
• an authority of the Commonwealth such as the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.

If you are a trading corporation, your trading activities must:

• form a sufficiently significant proportion of the corporation’s overall activities as to merit it being described as a trading or financial corporation; or
• are a substantial and not merely peripheral activity of the corporation.

You are not eligible to apply if you are:

• an organisation, or your project partner is an organisation, included on the National Redress Scheme’s list of Institutions that have not joined or signified their intent to join the Scheme
• an employer of 100 or more employees that has not complied with the Workplace Gender Equality Act (2012)
• income tax exempt
• an individual
• partnership
• unincorporated association
• any organisation not included in section 4.1 of the guidelines
• trust (however, an incorporated trustee may apply on behalf of a trust).

Joint applications

Joint applications are acceptable, provided you have a lead organisation who is the main driver of the project and is eligible to apply. For further information on joint applications, refer to section 7.2 of the guidelines.

You must complete your project by 30 April 2031.

Your project must be located in Australia.

For your project to be eligible, your application must show a minimum of $2 million in eligible project expenditure.

Your project’s focus area must aim to:

• research, develop or commercialise carbon capture and storage technologies;
• research, develop or commercialise CO2 utilisation technologies; or
• complete feasibility and geological studies into new potential CO2 storage locations.

Only one application can be submitted per applicant for each focus area.

Your application must also show:

• evidence from your board (or chief executive officer or equivalent if there is no board) that the project is supported, the project can be completed and you can meet project costs not covered by the grant
• how you will provide your share of project costs, such as an accountant declaration that confirms you can fund your share of the project costs, including any ineligible expenditure
• if you are from a Foreign Corporation that you and/or your sub-contractors are not on the DFAT Consolidated List.

You can apply for a grant between $1 million and $30 million.

You can use this grant funding to support activities, such as:

• geological studies and assessments, including well appraisals
• constructing, installing and commissioning of CCUS equipment and software
• process design and engineering, including feasibility studies
• monitoring the performance of the CO2 supply, and the reliability and quality of CCUS assets
• transformation of CO2 to create economically viable products
• consultation and planning, including community, industry, government and research engagement.