Who funds renewable energy research?

We count 421 funded renewable energy projects, active between 2021 and 2033, from 6 funders. The most came from EU · Climate, Energy and Mobility (122 projects), EU · MSCA (120 projects) and EU · ERC (53 projects). The median award is $2.6M, across the 410 of 421 projects that list an amount.

Funded projects

421

Funders

6

Median award

$2.6M

Open calls now

9

Top funders of renewable energy research

Projects whose title or summary mentions renewable energy. Median award: of the projects that list an amount, in US dollars; “—” when fewer than 3 do.

Open renewable energy funding calls

9 open calls mention renewable energy today.

• Efficient energy input from renewable sources and energy management in the process industries (IA) (Processes4Planet and Innovative Advanced Materials for the EU partnerships)
  European Commission · Horizon Europe€7,000,000 – €9,000,000Deadline: February 2, 2027 ·
• Co-funding Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan renewable fuel value chains at EU, national, regional, and local level
  European Commission · Horizon EuropeUp to €30,000,000Deadline: March 31, 2027 ·
• Renewable Energy Valleys in Africa to increase energy security and energy access in Africa
  European Commission · Horizon EuropeUp to €4,500,000Deadline: March 31, 2027 ·
• Onboard renewable energy solutions and energy saving measures to reduce the fuel consumption of ships by at least 55% (ZEWT Partnership)
  European Commission · Horizon EuropeUp to €6,500,000Deadline: April 14, 2027 ·
• Renewable Energy Generation & Storage
  National Science Foundation (SBIR/STTR)Not specifiedDeadline: July 7, 2027 ·
• Renewable Energy Systems and Energy Efficiency Improvements Program
  Rural Business-Cooperative Service $1,500 – $500,000Deadline: Not listed
• De-risking renewable fuel technologies through transnational pre-commercial procurement of renewable fuel industrial value chains
  European Commission · Horizon EuropeUp to €40,000,000Deadline: December 1, 2026 ·
• Concentrated solar thermal systems for decarbonising industrial processes
  European Commission · Horizon EuropeUp to €6,000,000Deadline: March 31, 2027 ·
• Demonstration of hydropower technologies for efficient and forward-looking refurbishment of existing hydropower plants
  European Commission · Horizon EuropeUp to €8,500,000Deadline: December 1, 2027 ·

Funded renewable energy projects

A sample, latest start first, at most three per program.

• Demand for renewable energy is increasing, and the southeastern united states is expected to play a major role in supplying woody biomass…
  USDA · $649,977 · ends 2031
• Alaska village electric cooperative, inc
  DOE · $2,665,121 · ends 2031
• Collaborative Research: LTREB Renewal: Experimental determination of trophic dynamics and energy flows in a semiarid habitat
  NSF · BIO · $370,309 · ends 2031
• Amid the rising demand for renewable energy from biobased materials, it is essential to ensure that forests can be utilized efficiently to…
  USDA · $649,836 · ends 2031
• Collaborative Research: SHF: FlexScale: Exploiting Workload Elasticity to Increase HPC Throughput while Lowering Cost via Dynamic Power Steering
  NSF · CISE · $499,999 · ends 2030
• Building the nExT generaTion of marine Eco-friendly wind faRm
  UKRI · Horizon Europe Guarantee · £535,844 · ends 2030
• TACOS-PV: Temperature Analysis and Characterisation in Operational Solar PhotoVoltaics
  UKRI · EPSRC · £1,676,555 · ends 2030
• Collaborative Research: Coupled Hydro-structural Mechanics of Non-rigid Floating Bodies under Quasi-standing and Breaking Waves
  NSF · ENG · $329,113 · ends 2029
• Comprehensive assessment of co-benefits and maladaptation of solarisation in Thailand
  Wellcome · £1,339,120 · ends 2029
• Spatiotemporal Transient Dynamics in Advanced Photonic Materials (STAD)
  UKRI · UKRI FLF · £1,456,120 · ends 2029

How we count

Funded projects come from public award records (NIH RePORTER, NSF, EU CORDIS, UKRI Gateway to Research, Wellcome, the Gates Foundation, DOE, NASA and USDA NIFA) whose title or summary matches “renewable energy”. NIH lists each budget year separately; one project counts once. Amounts are as the funder lists them; medians use only projects that list one, in US dollars. Open calls and forecasts are from our listings of October 28, 2026. A project can mention a topic without being mainly about it, so treat the counts as a guide to who funds the area.