Deadline: 21-Jul-23
Development Grants Competition is now open to a wide range of proposals across the existing supply chain and beyond, to fund projects that will lead to an increase in UK content, jobs, turnover and/or exports in the offshore wind sector.
Aim
- The purpose of the Development Grants is to help UK companies to improve their competitiveness or increase capability to enable a step-change in their growth. This covers investment in new equipment and facilities as well as the development and implementation of new processes.
- They are especially interested in projects that will create significant export potential and can demonstrate a clear export strategy within the application.
Focus Areas
- OWGP is seeking applications from UK companies with proposals focused on one of the following areas:
- Investing in new equipment or facilities to increase manufacturing or service delivery capacity or capability.
- Developing and implementing new operational processes that will increase competitiveness in the UK and global markets
- Investing in new technologies, products and/or services to improve operational performance, reliability and/or efficiency. Please note that any technology development should be near-to-market, ready for commercialisation. This includes floating technology.
- Other activity that will grow the company and lead to increased jobs, turnover and/or exports.
- OWGP will monitor successful projects and track progress in line with forecast outputs and key performance indicators for the programme. Projects must be transformative, additional to businessas-usual activity and be able to deliver long-term impact.
Funding Information
- Grants of £50,000 to £500,000 are available to UK businesses for projects that align with scope areas above. The call is open to a wide range of proposals across the existing offshore wind supply chain and new market entrants.
Target
- This competition is open to UK companies that are currently working in offshore wind but also from adjacent sectors such as:
- Onshore Wind
- Renewables (other)
- Aerospace
- Oil & Gas
- Nuclear
- Automotive
- Marine
- Defence
- Manufacturing
- Companies working in other sectors are encouraged to apply providing the proposal demonstrates a
- clear business case and ambition to grow market share in offshore wind.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Applicant must meet the following criteria:
- Be a UK-registered company of any size
- Show a clear intent to develop their business in offshore wind
- Have not received OWGP funding through a funding competition launched in the last 12 months, i.e., the Nov 2022 Innovation Grants and May 2022 Development Grants.
- Have not received 3 or more OWGP funding awards previously.
- If resubmitting a proposal from a previous OWGP funding competition that was unsuccessful, this is the first and only resubmission.
- Have not already started the eligible project activities outlined in the funding proposal or anticipate commencing these activities prior to an official award decision.
- Show a clear intent to improve competitiveness and/or increase capability in offshore wind
- Demonstrate existing capability in offshore wind or have a firm plan for working in offshore wind
- Show a clear intent to grow the business in terms of turnover, UK jobs, UK exports and UKbased IP with justification and evidence provided.
- Provide monetary and/or in-kind contribution to the total project costs
- Make only one submission to this funding call per company
- Explain how this project would not take place without OWGP support and why this funding is additional to business-as-usual activity.
- In addition to the Applicant, they encourage the inclusion of other organisations as part of the wider Project Team. These could be:
- Other UK-based business, academic institution, public sector organisation, charity or Research and Technology Organisation (RTO)
- Potential clients for the Deliverables
- If an applicant does not make a substantial effort to exploit the award in line with the Funding Agreement, OWGP reserves the right to terminate the Agreement.
For more information, visit Offshore Wind Growth Partnership.