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IETF energy efficiency and decarbonisation studies

Opens:
8/3/2021
Closes:
14/7/2021
Sectors:
All
Energy
Project Size:
£30,000 - £14,000,000

Summary

This competition aims to support feasibility and engineering studies necessary to enable an investment decision in energy efficiency and deep decarbonisation solutions.

 

 

Eligibility

This competition is aimed at businesses that use energy or produce direct emissions as a result of their industrial processes.

 

For this competition your business must fall into the following SIC categories of activity:

  • manufacturing 10(000) through to 33(200)
  • data centres 63(110)

 

Your project must:

  • start by 01 July 2022
  • end by 30 June 2024
  • up to 12 months if it is a feasibility study
  • up to 24 months if it is an engineering study

 

The end-beneficiary of the study must be a single manufacturing site or data centre in England, Wales or Northern Ireland.

 

You can include multiple projects within your application but you must make sure:

  • all projects are located at the same eligible site
  • all individual elements are eligible

 

The total eligible project costs for a feasibility study application must be at least £30,000. The maximum grant that can be awarded for a feasibility study is £7 million.

 

The total eligible project costs for an engineering study application must be at least £50,000. The maximum grant that can be awarded for a feasibility study is £14 million.


Scope

This strand of the competition aims to:

  • help industrial companies build a pipeline of future deployment projects by supporting feasibility and engineering studies
  • reduce the costs and risks of either industrial energy efficiency or decarbonisation technologies


The intention is to support studies necessary to facilitate the permanent installation of technologies at industrial sites, rather than general research, development, and testing of a technology solution.


Studies must focus on one of the following.

  • Energy efficiency - Investigate technologies that improve the energy efficiency of an industrial process or processes on the identified site. These technologies will be primarily focussed on reducing the energy requirements of existing processes on site. Eligible technologies must have been proven to work through successful operation on existing processes and/or be qualified through test and demonstration. This corresponds to TRLs of 8, 9 and above.
  • Deep decarbonisation - Investigate technologies that will result in a significant reduction in the greenhouse gas emissions of an industrial process or processes on the identified site, focussing specifically on reducing the carbon content of any energy used on site. These technologies will not necessarily have an energy efficiency benefit.

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