BGE Energizing Small Business Grants

What would a $20,000 grant mean for your small business? That’s what we want to learn from anyone applying to the BGE Energizing Small Business grant program, presented in partnership with Hello Alice and the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN). We are now accepting applications until June 13, 2025 at 6 p.m. ET.

This grant program is designed to help Maryland’s businesses succeed and thrive. Applicants must be a for-profit business and an existing BGE electric and/or gas customer in good standing with BGE. Other eligibility criteria include:

• Be a for-profit business that has been operating for at least one (1) year at the start of the application
• Existing BGE electric and/or gas customer in good standing with BGE
• In good standing (or on the way to) with the State of Maryland
• A maximum of twenty-five (25) full-time employees
• Annual gross revenues in 2024 of less than $7 million USD
• Demonstrated need for funding to support business and serve customers

For full eligibility requirements, see the Terms and Conditions. Still have questions? Read our FAQs.

If you applied and were not selected for a previous round of the program, you are welcome to submit a new application. We will evaluate your application based on any new information and judge it against a new pool of applicants!

The deadline for this round is June 13, 2025 at 6 p.m. ET.