Green Manufacturing and Decarbonization Grants in Canada
Canada’s manufacturing sector is transforming toward a low-carbon future, and billions in grants and incentives are available to support that shift. Through federal and provincial programs, businesses can fund clean technologies, energy efficiency upgrades, electrification, and carbon capture projects. These programs reduce capital costs, improve competitiveness, and help companies meet climate goals. This guide outlines the main green manufacturing and decarbonization grants in Canada, including funding opportunities for cleaner industry, advanced equipment, and low-carbon innovations that drive sustainable growth.

innovÉÉ — SI2TEC
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing

Rouyn-Noranda — Local Investment (FLI) and Solidarity (FLS) Funds
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Up to 20% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Accommodation and food services
- Other services (except public administration)

Energy Performance Program
- No Condition
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

MTRIC — INNOV-R
- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Up to 40% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Manufacturing

Commercial CoolSaver Program
- Maximum amount : 1,450 $
- Up to 5% of project cost
- Utilities
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Wholesale trade

MRC Drummond — Business Succession Program
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Up to 51% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Wholesale trade
- Retail trade
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

MTRIC — SI2TEC – Feasibility Studies
- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing

MRC d'Avignon — Local Investment Funds (FLI) and Local Solidarity Funds (FLS)
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Retail trade
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Recyc-Québec — Beverage Container Recycling — Stream 2
- Maximum amount : 2,000,000 $
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

Rail Transportation Infrastructure and Modal Integration Support Program — Part 3 — Studies
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Up to 66.67% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Construction

Enbridge Gas Quebec — Cash incentives – Innovation
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

CRIBIQ — INNOV-R
- Up to 40% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

Laval Économique — Tax credit – Urban Expansion
- Maximum amount : 1,600,000 $
- Up to 100% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Ville de La Tuque — RRF stream 2 - Support for local and regional development skills
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Retail trade
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Emissions Reduction Advancement Program (ERAP)
- No Condition
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing

Ventures at Coralus
- Up to 45% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Regional Homebuilding Innovation Initiative (RHII) in the Prairie Provinces
- From $200,000 to $5,000,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Construction
- Manufacturing

Energy Innovation Program – Advancing Canada’s clean energy future
- No Condition
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing

CFIN — Unpuzzling: Foodtech Ontario
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Wholesale trade
- Retail trade
- Transportation and warehousing

- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Up to 40% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

PROMPT — GHG reduction – Academic component
- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

Manufacturing and processing profits deduction and zero-emission technology manufacturing deduction
- Up to 13% of project cost
- Utilities
- Manufacturing

CQRDA — PSO-International
- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

MRC de Rivière-du-Loup — FRR – Stream 3: Signature innovation - renewable energies
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

City of Lévis — Desjardins Business Fund (FDE)
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Manufacturing
- Retail trade
- Information and cultural industries
- Accommodation and food services
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Bioenergies Program
- From $10,000 to $5,000,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Construction
- Manufacturing

Enbridge Gas Quebec — Cash incentives – Feasibility study
- Maximum amount : 2,500 $
- Up to 40% of project cost
- Utilities
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Real estate and rental and leasing

Genomic Applications Partnership Program (GAPP) — Alberta
- From $100,000 to $2,000,000
- Up to 33% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

Rio Tinto Aluminium Valley Fund
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing

Recyc-Québec — Beverage Container Recycling — Stream 3
- Maximum amount : 2,000,000 $
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

Ontario Automotive Investment Strategy (OAIS)
- No Condition
- Manufacturing

Next Generation of Jobs Fund
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Utilities
- Manufacturing

Strategic Jobs Investment Fund (SJIF)
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Finance and insurance
- Health care and social assistance

ERA — 2025 Industrial Transformation Challenge
- From $500,000 to $15,000,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Manufacturing

Financial assistance to develop the production, processing and marketing of Nordic biofood products
- Minimum amount : 10,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Accommodation and food services

Energy Innovation Program — Battery Industry Acceleration
- No Condition
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Enriched Investment Tax Credit
- Up to 25% of project cost
- Manufacturing

Regional Economic Growth Through Innovation & Southern Ontario Prosperity Program — Not-for-profit organizations
- Minimum amount : 125,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

PRIMA — SI2TEC – Feasibility Studies
- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

Energy Retrofit Loans (ERL)
- Up to 100% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Retail trade
- Real estate and rental and leasing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

NGen — Sustainable Manufacturing Challenge
- No Condition
- Manufacturing

Disaster Financial Assistance Arrangements (DFAA)
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Utilities
- Construction
- Manufacturing

NRC — Automotive and Surface Transportation
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Public administration

Advisory Services Program — Component 2 – Support for the dissemination of information and business co-development activities
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Educational services

Atlantic Fisheries Fund — Science Partnerships
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Invest Nova Scotia — Greenshoots
- Maximum amount : 40 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

Tax credit for ethanol production in Quebec
- No Condition
- Manufacturing

Consolidating the entrepreneurial life cycle in the ecological transition
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services
- Educational services

Agriculture Development Fund
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

Forest Biomass Program — Innovative bioproduct manufacturing stream
- Maximum amount : 5,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Utilities
- Construction
- Manufacturing
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PacifiCan — Jobs and Growth Fund — For profit
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

BC Manufacturing Jobs Fund (BCMJF) — Capital Investment
- Minimum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 20% of project cost
- Manufacturing

PrairiesCan — Aerospace Regional Recovery Initiative (ARRI)
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Social economy support program (PSES) – Stream 2
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Retail trade
- Transportation and warehousing

Energy Innovation Program — On-road Transportation Decarbonization
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Innovate BC — BC Fast Pilot program
- Maximum amount : 200,000 $
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

The Low Carbon Economy Fund - Low Carbon Economy Challenge
- Minimum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

Regional Initiatives Fund (FAIR)
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Utilities
- Construction
- Manufacturing

PSO – Organic food
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 27% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Laval Économique — Tax credit – Urban modernization
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Up to 100% of project cost
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Real estate and rental and leasing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

ERA — Advanced Materials Challenge
- From $250,000 to $5,000,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

Post-Farm Food Safety Program
- Maximum amount : 20,000 $
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing

Eurogia Cluster's 29th Call for proposals – Clean Technologies
- No Condition
- Utilities
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries

Innovative Solutions Canada — Zero emissions technologies for industrial process heating
- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Manufacturing

- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services
- Other services (except public administration)

Support Policy For Businesses
- Maximum amount : 40,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

Tax credit for biodiesel production in Quebec
- No Condition
- Manufacturing

The Low Carbon Economy Fund - Low Carbon Economy Leadership Fund
- No Condition
- Utilities
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Enbridge Gas Quebec — Cash incentives – Air Curtain
- From $400 to $10,500
- Manufacturing
- Wholesale trade
- Transportation and warehousing

Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) Investment Tax Credit (ITC)
- Up to 10% of project cost
- Utilities
- Construction
- Manufacturing

NGen — Cluster Accelerator Program
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Manufacturing

Newfoundland and Labrador green technology tax credit
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Up to 20% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Construction
- Manufacturing

Alberta Innovates — Agri-Food and Bioindustrial Innovation Program
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Construction
- Manufacturing

NRC — Canadian Centre for Housing Technology
- No Condition
- Utilities
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Real estate and rental and leasing

- Maximum amount : 6,000,000 $
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
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CleanBC Industry Fund - Emissions Performance Request for Proposals
- Maximum amount : 25,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing

Eurogia Cluster's 30th Call for proposals – Clean Technologies
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Industrial Energy Efficiency Program
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Utilities
- Manufacturing

NRC — Wind tunnel testing facility
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Regional Economic Growth Through Innovation & Southern Ontario Prosperity Program
- Minimum amount : 125,000 $
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Alberta Petrochemicals Incentive Program (APIP)
- Minimum amount : 50 $
- Up to 12% of project cost
- Manufacturing

CRIBIQ — PSO-Bioproducts and bioprocesses
- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Up to 40% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

NGen — Electric Vehicle Manufacturing Value Chain Program (EVMP)
- Up to 35% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing

Canadian Cleantech for Mining Mission to Australia and Indonesia
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Agri-Tech Innovation Initiative : Stream 3 – Agri-Tech Energy Costs Savings
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 35% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

Clean Hydrogen Investment Tax Credit (ITC)
- No Condition
- Manufacturing

Breakthrough Energy Solutions Canada
- No Condition
- Utilities
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing

RDAR — Irrigation Targeted Call
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 60% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

Investments in Forest Industry Transformation (IFIT) — Capital Investment Projects
- Minimum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

Advanced Manufacturing Investment Strategy (AMIS)
- Maximum amount : 10,000,000 $
- Up to 30% of project cost
- Manufacturing

Project support program for the Critical and Strategic Minerals Scientific Research Network
- Maximum amount : 2,000,000 $
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Manufacturing
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Energy Innovation Program — Carbon capture, utilization and storage RD&D
- No Condition
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

ERA — Expanded Technologies Pilot
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Utilities
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

CFIN — Foodtech Frontier 25
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Retail trade
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Accommodation and food services

New Construction Commercial and Industrial Energy Efficiency Program
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Up to 25% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Wholesale trade

FortisBC — Custom Performance Program
- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Other services (except public administration)

Critical Minerals Innovation Fund
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

B.C. — Agri-Business Planning Program
- From $500 to $22,500
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

Atlantic Investment Tax Credit
- Up to 10% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Manufacturing

Compétivert — Investment Matching Solution
- From $1,000,000 to $5,000,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing