RI Rural Small Businesses
FREE SAM registration and grant writing technical assistance is available to help RI's rural small businesses develop REAP grant applications. The first step is to make sure your business is located in an eligible rural location by checking your business address. Next, fill out the survey below and submit it and we will send you an email confirming if you are eligible.
REAP funding is competitive.
​Bookmark the USDA REAP website for the most up-to-date info.

Grantwriting Help Process

Submit the REAP small business survey at the links below for your RES or EEI project to find out if you are eligible to receive no-cost technical assistance to complete your REAP grant application.
​Eligible rural RI small businesses can apply for REAP funding to cover 50% of Energy Efficiency Improvements (EEI) projects, and 25% or 50% of Renewable Energy Systems (RES) projects.  Recent grant awards have been made to RI rural small business and agricultural producer applicants in Middletown, Tiverton, Chepachet, Exeter, Westerly, Little Compton, and Wakefield.
An unprecedented increase in REAP funding is now available from the USDA!
Take a RES or EEI Survey to see if your project is eligible for FREE grantwriting!
Renewable Energy System (RES) 
REAP RES grant funds may be used for the purchase and installation of renewable energy systems, such as biomass (for example: biodiesel and ethanol, anaerobic digesters, and solid fuels), geothermal for electric generation or direct use, hydropower below 30 megawatts, hydrogen, small and large wind generation, small and large solar generation, and ocean (tidal, current, thermal) generation.
​​Energy Efficient Improvement (EEI)
REAP EEI grant funds may be used for the purchase, installation, and construction for the improvement or replacement of existing buildings, systems, or equipment that reduce annual energy consumption such as high-efficiency heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems, (HVAC), insulation, lighting, cooling or refrigeration units, doors and windows, electric, solar or gravity pumps for sprinkler pivots, switching from diesel to electric irrigation motor, and replacement of energy-inefficient equipment.
All applicants are required to register at SAM.gov. 
Learn more by clicking the link below. 
Current 2024 grant application window deadlines are:
  • Jun 30 2024
  • Sep 30 2024
Small Business applicants for REAP funding must be located in an eligible rural area and be one of the following:
  • Private for-profit entity (Sole Proprietorship, Partnership or Corporation)
  • A Cooperative (qualified under IRS Code 501 (c) 12)
  • An electric utility (including a Tribal or governmental electric utility) that provides service to rural consumers and operates independent of direct government control
  • A Tribal corporation or other Tribal business entities that are chartered under Section 17 of the Indian Re-organization Act (25 USC 477) or that have similar structures and relationships with their Tribal entity without regard to the resources of the Tribal government
Small Business applicants must meet the size standards described in 13 CFR 121 and have NO outstanding delinquent federal taxes, debt, judgement or debarment.
All projects require a Small Business applicant to provide at least 50% matching funds to the amount of federal grant funds requested.  Some projects will require a 75% match and limit the amount of federal grant funds awarded to 25% of the project's cost.

REAP grants can provide federal funding for 25% or 50% of eligible project costs
  • Renewable Energy System (RES) or RES retrofit projects that produce zero greenhouse gas emissions
  • A project located in an Energy Community as defined in 26 USC 45(b)(11)(B) and determined by the Department of the Treasury
  • Energy Efficiency Improvement projects
  • A Tribal Corporation or Tribal Business entity project
A 25% federal grant share is available for all other eligible projects.  Other requirements apply.
GetYourGrant.Info is made possible by a REAP Technical Assistance (REAP TAG) Grant Award from the
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Contact RI USDA REAP
LORD & ASSOCIATES has been awarded a REAP TAG Grant to provide the GetYourGrant.Info website, technical assistance for SAM registration, and grant writing help for eligible USDA Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) grant applicants in Rhode Island.
Email: [email protected]  Phone: (401) 341-0357