National Grid – Downstate Economic Development Grant Program

These Grant Programs are for projects in National Grid’s downstate New York service territory in the counties of Kings, Queens, Richmond, Nassau and Suffolk only.

Whether your goal is to focus your community's economic development and business recruitment efforts, develop strategies and materials for marketing your community or to redevelop buildings and brownfields in your community, National Grid’s Economic Development Grant Program may be able to assist you. National Grid’s Economic Development Grant Program is approved by the New York State Public Service Commission.

National Grid’s Economic Development Grant Program maintains a strong focus on site development, urban revitalization, strategic marketing, and facilitating customer growth through infrastructure assistance, energy efficiency and productivity improvement. The Program reflects an increasing emphasis on sustainable development, the efficient use of existing energy infrastructure, and the strategic deployment of renewable generation technologies.

Downstate Application Portal

Marketing Programs Cooperative Business Recruitment	Capital Investment Program The Future of Heat Economic Development	Site Development Programs Brownfield Redevelopment CleanTech Incubation
Productivity Program Natural Gas Manufacturing Productivity Program	Revitalization Development Program Cinderella Sustainable Gas and Economic Development

Marketing Programs

Cooperative Business Recruitment
The Cooperative Business Recruitment program provides matching funds for cooperative marketing initiatives between National Grid and economic development partners.
Program Description for Cooperative Business Recruitment Program
Online Program Application

Capital Investment Program

The Future of Heat Economic Development
The Economic Development and The Future Of Heat Program provides funds to help customer in investments in “non pipeline alternatives” and emerging and efficient natural gas utilizing technologies other solutions that will reduce overall demand for natural gas delivery in the region. Program eligibility requirements are in the Program Description.
Program Description for The Future of Heat Economic Development
Online Program Application

Site Development Programs

Brownfield Redevelopment
The Brownfield Redevelopment Assistance Program provides matching grants to fund utility related infrastructure improvements, demolition, and other costs that are necessary to progress the redevelopment of a brownfield site or abandoned building, including Phase I and Phase II environmental site assessments, demolition that results in the clean-up and re-use of a contaminated site or building and costs associated with the local match for NYS DEC Environmental Restoration Program (ERP) and the Brownfield Opportunity Area Program (BOA).
Program Description for Brownfield Redevelopment
Online Program Application

CleanTech Incubation
The CleanTech Incubation Program provides grants up to $250,000 to support entrepreneurial ventures, connect new companies to key resources, address their critical problems and assist them in capitalizing on emerging opportunities. Application requests may include the costs associated with market research, commercialization efforts and consulting support that includes entrepreneurs-in-residence (EIR’s), training and costs related to performance tracking, including documentation of lessons learned (for replication purposes). Program eligibility requirements are in the Program Description.
Program Description for CleanTech Incubation
Online Program Application

Productivity Program

Natural Gas Manufacturing Productivity Program
The Manufacturing Productivity Program (MPP) provides matching grants, based on costs incurred by eligible applicants, whose top management commits the time and resources to “lean manufacturing” projects or manufacturing assistance projects that result in eliminating waste and increasing productivity on the “shop floor” and/or in the office. Further, the program provides matching grants for growth-targeted activities that result in greater utilization of manufacturing capacity and increased matching grants for projects that combine and coordinate the productivity and growth activities described above. The Manufacturing Productivity Program was developed in partnership with the Regional Technology Development Centers (RTDCs) from Western New York, Finger Lakes, Central New York, Mohawk Valley, North Country, and Capital Region and is delivered in conjunction with these RTDCs. RTDC contact information is provided at the end of this program description. Program eligibility requirements are in the Program Description.
Program Description for Natural Gas Manufacturing Productivity Program
Online Program Application

Revitalization Development Program

Cinderella
The Cinderella program is designed to assist downstate communities improve their economic viability, attract new investment, and capitalize on their distinct development potential. This program provides grants for eligible costs to developers, municipalities, and non-profit development corporations to offset a portion of the costs of redeveloping and revitalizing vacant buildings in critical commercial districts and urban corridors.
Program Description for Cinderella Program
Online Program Application

Sustainable Gas And Economic Development
The program provides matching grants of up to $250,000 for collaborative projects that involve an downstate research institution, one or more sustainable gas or gas transportation technologies and a regional economic development sponsor. Program eligibility requirements are in the Program Description.
Program Description for Sustainable Gas And Economic Development
Online Program Application