Organisations can apply for a share of up to £30 million exclusive of VAT, for collaborative Discovery Phase Projects that meet the Round 4 challenges. This funding is from the Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund.
This competition is delivered by Innovate UK in partnership with the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem). It is funded by the Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund, which aims to deliver net zero at lowest cost to consumers and support innovative businesses to grow and scale.
Discovery is the first phase of a three phase competition:
There are four challenges in this Discovery Phase:
You are encouraged to consider all areas of your Project from the initial Discovery Phase through to commercialisation following Alpha and Beta.
This competition is open to collaborative applications only.
Your Project must address one of the challenges for the initial Round 4 Discovery Phase. You must plan for the development of your Project to meet a Round 4 Challenge through to live testing in the Alpha Phase and large-scale demonstration in the Beta Phase.
It is the responsibility of the lead applicant to ensure that they are entering the appropriate challenge competition and theme for their Project.
You must ensure you submit your application to the correct challenge for your Project. You will not be able to transfer your application, and it will not be sent for assessment if it is out of scope.
Successful applicants from the Discovery Phase will be invited to apply for the Alpha Phase.
In applying to this Discovery Phase competition, you are entering into a competitive process.
Any adoption and implementation of a solution from this competition would be subject to a separate, possibly competitive, procurement exercise.
This competition closes at 11am UK time on the deadline stated in this Innovate UK competition brief. We cannot guarantee other government, or third party sites will always show the correct competition information.