Industrial decarbonisation: local industrial decarbonisation plans
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £5 million to develop strategic plans for place-based industrial decarbonisation.
The Local Industrial Decarbonisation Plans Competition (LIDP) provides support for industrial manufacturers, not located within the UK’s existing industrial clusters, to develop plans to reduce their emissions and avoid carbon leakage.
The competitive grant funding will support the advancement of place-based industrial decarbonisation plans. This will involve collaboration between closely located industrial businesses and other stakeholders, as well as upskilling their capabilities ahead of introducing low-emission technologies.
The objectives of this competition are as follows:
- To support the development of credible, context-sensitive, strategic plans for decarbonising local industrial clusters
- To increase organisational collaboration and strengthen decarbonisation planning skills, capacity and capability in local industrial clusters
- To gather evidence to inform decarbonisation of other local industrial clusters and dispersed sites
The competition closes on Wednesday 2 August.
For further information please visit https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/industrial-decarbonisation-local-industrial-decarbonisation-plans/
Ofgem round three: call for ideas
This Call for Ideas is delivered in partnership with Ofgem and aims to deliver net zero at lowest cost to consumers and support innovative businesses to grow and scale.
This Call for Ideas forms part of a programme delivered with the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem) in partnership with Innovate UK. Ideas which advance through this process and develop into a project proposal led by an Energy Network, may be offered the opportunity to seek funding from the Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF).
This competition closes on Friday 11 August 2023.
For further information please visit https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/ofgem-round-three-call-for-ideas/
Design foundations round two: net zero living
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £4 million for people-centred and planet-centred design projects. This is to support R&D activity developing new products and services that transform where we live and work into net zero places.
The aim of this competition is to help businesses use people-centred and planet-centred design methods to lay the foundations for innovative ideas with the potential to deliver significant benefits. The purpose of this will be to support the transformation of our homes and places of work into net zero environments. These can be ideas for new or significantly improved products, services, places or business models.
Eligible organisations can apply for funding to use people-centred and planet-centred design methods to:
- improve existing innovative ideas
- generate new ideas in response to a known need or opportunity
- identify new opportunities to innovate and plan how to respond to them
This competition closes on Wednesday 26 July 2023.
For further information please visit https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/design-foundations-round-two-net-zero-living/
Innovation loans future economy competition: round nine
UK registered businesses can apply for loans for innovative projects with strong commercial potential to significantly improve the UK economy.
Innovate UK is offering up to £25 million in loans to micro, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Loans are for highly innovative late-stage research and development (R&D) projects with the best potential for the future. There should be a clear route to commercialisation and economic impact.
Your project must lead to innovative new products, processes or services that are significantly ahead of others currently available, or propose an innovative use of existing products, processes or services. It can also involve a new or innovative business model.
This competition closes on Wednesday 12 July 2023.
For further information please visit https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/innovation-loans-future-economy-competition-round-nine/