Drivers such as climate change, supply chain resilience and the cost of energy mean that there is a growing need to invest in manufacturing efficiency, particularly across the Power Electronics Machines and Drives (PEMD) value chain.
Innovate UK’s Driving the Electric Revolution, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £5 million in projects that enable the scale-up of PEMD manufacturing to develop a resilient, cross-sectoral, UK supply chain for these enabling technologies critical for net zero.
This competition is split into two strands:
Strand 1: Adopting manufacturing best practice
Strand 2 (this strand): Manufacturing process development, which aims to fund innovative process development projects that impact manufacturing cost, capability and efficiency to grow resilient manufacturing PEMD supply chains.
It is your responsibility to ensure you submit your application to the correct strand 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.
In applying to this competition, you are entering into a competitive process. This competition closes at 11am UK time on the deadline stated.
Funding type
Grant
Project size
Your project’s total grant funding request must be between £50,000 and £800,000.
Your proposal
Drivers such as climate change, supply chain resilience and the cost of energy mean that there is a growing need to invest in manufacturing efficiency, particularly across the Power Electronics Machines and Drives (PEMD) value chain.
Innovate UK’s Driving the Electric Revolution, part of UK Research and Innovation, aims to make the UK PEMD supply chain more globally competitive by investing up to £5 million in projects that enable the scale-up of PEMD manufacturing.
In this strand we are looking to fund collaborative projects that address key research and development opportunities through innovative solutions that impact manufacturing cost, capability and efficiency to grow resilient manufacturing supply chains for UK PEMD.
Elements of the manufacturing supply chain that are considered in scope include:
materials processing
sub-component and component manufacturing
sub-system integration and assembly
final assembly of PEMD specific modules
remanufacturing
end of life disassembly and recycling
This list is not intended to be exhaustive. Other manufacturing process innovations may be in scope.
Projects must be able to demonstrate that:
the innovation will improve efficiency, productivity or flexibility of PEMD manufacturing processes
there are potential cost and energy savings and quality benefits to their business
they will have a positive impact on the environmental, societal and governance (ESG) performance of the PEMD supply chain
they are exploitable through future activities
there is a credible return on investment
Your project outputs should ideally have potential for cross-sector impact.
Portfolio approach
We will be funding a portfolio of projects across both strands that will be exploitable across multiple areas of the PEMD supply chain. These include markets, locations, strands, themes, technologies and technology maturities.
We call this a portfolio approach.
The Challenge Director reserves the right to make sure that the portfolio of successful projects, across all Driving the Electric Revolution programmes, will have the greatest positive impact to the UK’s PEMD supply chain.
Research categories
We will fund industrial research projects and experimental development projects, as defined in the guidance on categories of research.
Projects we will not fund
We are not funding projects that are:
fundamental research or proof of concept
not collaborative
not industry led
focusing on product development
not developing capability that will enhance UK PEMD supply chains
not demonstrating a credible return on investment
focused around batteries
dependent on export performance
dependent on domestic inputs usage
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