Funding

This competition is delivered 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:

1. Discovery
2. Alpha
3. Beta

There are four challenges in this Discovery Phase:

• Challenge 1: Faster network development
• Challenge 2: Greater heat flexibility
• Challenge 3: Embedding resilience
• Challenge 4: Accelerating towards net zero energy networks

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.

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