MOOI electricity innovation grant
Grants for consortia researching and developing solar and wind innovations, from offshore energy parks to more flexible and reliable generation systems.
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MOOI supports connected research and development across several disciplines, including pilots that test an innovation. If the whole project consists of a pilot, RVO directs applicants to DEI+ instead. The electricity mission covers four routes:
- Offshore energy parks: lower costs or greater value, integration of renewable electricity through flexibility, storage or conversion, ecological improvements, and reuse of materials and components.
- Integrated generation on land: improve the economics of solar or wind systems, fit storage better into their surroundings, or develop additional services for the electricity system.
- Management of onshore generation systems: cheaper maintenance, stronger cybersecurity, monitoring for planned or predictive maintenance, and longer technical and economic service life.
- Solar technology: flexible perovskite films, the products using them, and their manufacturing equipment and processes. This route must involve research institutions, machine builders, material suppliers and producers across the full chain.
Projects must reach a first practical use within 10 years of starting: demonstrate the innovation in a real working solar or wind system. Large-scale rollout is not required. The funded project itself lasts no more than four years.
The 2026 terms cap the grant at €4 million per project. Each project needs at least €2 million in eligible costs; research organisations may incur no more than half of those costs. Each funded participant must qualify for at least €25,000. Partners contributing work without claiming subsidy can count, but their costs must be large enough to produce a hypothetical €25,000 grant at the applicable rate.
Maximum grants cover 60% of eligible costs for small companies, 50% for medium-sized companies and 40% for large companies. Research organisations can receive 80% for non-economic work, such as independent research rather than paid contract research. Company rates fall by 15 percentage points without effective collaboration. To qualify for the higher company rates, either at least one company must be small or medium-sized and no company may bear more than 70% of eligible costs, or research organisations must bear at least 10% and have the right to publish their own results.
Eligible research and development costs include staff, equipment subject to depreciation and residual-value rules, consumed materials and contracted work. Routine improvements do not qualify as research or development. Other activities that help achieve the project goals, such as participation or knowledge sharing, have a separate subsidy ceiling: 5% of total eligible project costs, at most €350,000 per project and €300,000 per enterprise. Economic other activities need a signed de-minimis declaration, which confirms remaining capacity under the €300,000 three-year small-aid limit; linked companies share that limit. For research organisations, only broad, non-exclusive and non-discriminatory dissemination of results qualifies as non-economic other activity.
Audit-statement costs and domestic travel are excluded. Administrative project management belongs only under other project activities.
Eligibility
- Form a varied consortium with at least three enterprises that are not in the same corporate group. Participants must contribute substantively at their own expense and risk, with balanced financial and practical contributions. You cannot outsource the whole project. Qualifying research organisations are universities, universities of applied sciences, the Dutch TO2 applied-research institutes (Deltares, MARIN, NLR, TNO and Wageningen Research), and comparable foreign organisations.
- An enterprise receiving a grant must have a permanent establishment or subsidiary in the Netherlands when payment is made. A permanent establishment needs lasting staff and technical resources; a postal address alone is insufficient. Foreign enterprises without this can contribute in kind without receiving subsidy.
- Central government, provinces, municipalities and public bodies under the Dutch joint-arrangements legislation cannot receive subsidy, although they can join. Water boards can receive it.
- Demonstrate technical and economic feasibility and the innovation’s prospects in the Dutch market. Secure funding for your own share before the final application. Activities must need the subsidy to avoid significant delay.
- Do not start work, incur costs or make commitments before submitting the final application. Start no later than six months after the award. Where a research organisation participates, sign a collaboration agreement before work starts, covering costs, risks, results and intellectual property. If work starts before the award, RVO needs the agreement during assessment and no later than the award date.
- Companies normally must pass RVO’s financial-distress decision form, which applies the EU definition of an undertaking in difficulty. A company that fails can use the de-minimis exception only with sufficient unused aid capacity and a declaration; its aid is limited to €300,000 over three years.
- Other economic activities are subject to de-minimis sector exclusions for fisheries and aquaculture, primary agricultural production and specified agricultural processing or marketing. These exclusions concern that activity category.
Other public funding can affect the award. The manual allows specified contributions such as SDE++, Horizon 2020 and provincial or municipal support without an automatic deduction, but total aid must stay within the applicable limits; other central-government grants are deducted. Research organisations have exceptions for financing their own share with specified public funding, including central-government general operating or investment contributions where their award terms allow the activities.
Plan to share project knowledge during the project, while protecting commercially sensitive information. If you use the fixed hourly cost method, your own contribution cannot consist solely of your own staff hours. Outsourced work must not go to a contractor linked to you through the same corporate group or a limited partnership, general partnership or professional partnership.
How to apply
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- Only consortia that submitted a timely complete pre-registration and received advice could apply; one final application per pre-registration. Closed.
The 2026 round is closed. Compulsory pre-registration ran from 17 March to 16 April 2026; final applications ran from 2 June to 3 September 2026, closing at 17:00 Netherlands time. The final stage was available only after timely complete pre-registration and the advisory committee’s advice. Negative advice did not prevent an improved final application; one pre-registration could lead to only one final application.
For this round, the consortium authorised one lead participant to submit through RVO with eHerkenning level 3 and the RVO-services authorisation. The final application required the project plan, budget, participant authorisations and financial-distress documents or the applicable de-minimis declaration. The project plan must set measurable milestones and decisions about whether to continue. RVO ranks eligible applications on contribution to the mission, innovation, Dutch market and societal prospects, project quality and consortium quality. Every criterion must score at least 6 out of 10; awards follow ranking until the budget is used.
A partner contributing work without requesting subsidy must provide a signed declaration on its own letterhead stating the contribution's value, activities and reason for participating without subsidy. Include its activities and costs in the project plan and budget, with €0 subsidy requested. The declaration must accompany the application; without it, RVO rejects the application as incomplete.
Use RVO’s MOOI application page to view an existing application. Awarded projects lasting more than 12 months submit annual progress reports, and recipients request final grant determination with a public final report within 13 weeks of the project ending.