Programs for Individuals
Individuals can save money on transportation, energy and heating expenses while helping California reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Learn about open funding opportunities, resources to help you learn more about California Climate Investments and how to apply for funds, and read stories of funded projects benefiting individuals.
California Climate Investments is a portfolio of over 110 State climate programs that fund projects and programs like:
Community-led projects (e.g., community car sharing, composting)
Household-serving voucher programs (e.g., rebates for the purchase of cleaner cars, woodstove replacements)
Large-scale infrastructure projects (e.g., affordable housing, transit)
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Funds placement of full-time service members with public agency, nonprofit, tribal, and educational institution partners to support community engagement efforts.
Financial incentives for installation of solar photovoltaic and energy storage systems in low-income households.
Financial incentives for planning, purchase, and installation of publicly available charging equipment.
Financial incentives for contractors installing heat pumps and heat pump water heaters to customers.
Incentives to retire gas vehicles and replace them with hybrid and zero-emission vehicles or alternative mobility options.
Vouchers for clean truck and bus fleet purchases for public transit and innovative small e-fleets.
Rebates for the purchase or lease of new, eligible light-duty vehicles, including electric, fuel-cell, and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.
Funds capacity building and air quality improvement activities for California community-based organizations, nonprofits, and California tribal governments that participate in the Community Air Protection Program.
Grants that support mobile source air pollution reduction measures for communities identified through the AB 617 Community Emissions Reduction Programs.
Grants for low-income consumers to purchase or lease a new or used hybrid, plug-in hybrid, or electric vehicles.
Low-interest loans and vehicle price buy-downs for lower-income consumers to purchase a new or used zero-emission, plug-in hybrid electric, or hybrid vehicle.
Funds farmers to purchase of agricultural harvesting equipment, heavy-duty trucks, agricultural pump engines, tractors, and other equipment used in agricultural operations.
Funds hyperlocal air monitoring in communities beyond those selected under the Community Air Protection Program.
Financial incentives for homeowners to replace wood stoves and fireplaces with cleaner home heating devices.
Funds development of a Forest Management Plan and Registered Professional Forester supervision of reforestation, stand improvement, conservation, and habitat improvement activities.
Financial incentives for commercial dairy and livestock operators to implement non-digester practices that reduce dairy and livestock manure methane emissions, such as solid separation or conversion.
Financial incentives that support the design and construction of new digester systems that decrease methane emissions.
Funds no-cost energy conservation measures in income-qualified farmworker households in select counties.
Funds research that supports implementation of the California Forest Carbon Plan and Prescribed Fire Monitoring program.
Funds CAL FIRE to purchase conservation easements and fee titles from sellers with productive forest lands.
Funds coverage of losses resulting from a prescribed or cultural burn that escaped control.
Funds water system consolidation, operation and maintenance costs, and planning activities for small water systems.
California Climate Investments puts billions of Cap-and-Invest dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy, improving public health and the environment, and providing meaningful benefits to the most disadvantaged communities and low-income communities and households.
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