Funding Competition: Hydrogen Storage and Distribution Supply Chain Collaborative R&D (UK)

Deadline: 26-Apr-23

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £4.35 million for CR&D projects related to hydrogen storage and distribution supply chain. This funding is from Innovate UK.

The aim of this competition is to develop new ways of delivering integrated hydrogen storage and distribution systems and the associated supply chains.

Your proposal must:

• innovate in the storage or distribution part of the hydrogen value chain
• integrate with at least one other part of the hydrogen value chain
• develop the supply chains for hydrogen storage and distribution.

Specific Themes

• Your project must focus on one or both of the following parts of the hydrogen value chain:
  • hydrogen storage
  • hydrogen distribution.

Funding Information

• Your project must:
  • have total costs of up to a maximum of £1 million
  • start by 1 December 2023
  • end by 31 May 2025
  • last up to 18 months
  • carry out all of its project work in the UK
  • intend to exploit the results from or in the UK.

Eligibility Criteria

• Lead Organisation
  • To lead a project your organisation must:
    • be a UK registered business of any size
    • collaborate with other UK registered organisations
    • be or involve at least one grant claiming micro, small or medium-sized enterprise (SME)
• Project Team
  • To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:
    • business of any size
    • academic institution
    • charity
    • not for profit
    • public sector organisation
    • research and technology organisation (RTO)
  • Each partner organisation must be invited into the Innovation Funding Service by the lead to collaborate on a project. Once accepted, partners will be asked to login or to create an account and enter their own project costs into the Innovation Funding Service.
  • To be an eligible collaboration, the lead and at least one other organisation must apply for funding when entering their costs into the application.

Ineligible

• They are not funding projects that:
  • are not collaborative
  • do not include collaboration across two or more parts of the hydrogen value chain where one part must include storage or distribution
  • do not address the development of UK hydrogen supply chains
  • do not include multiple tiers of the hydrogen supply chain
  • are innovating within the end use of hydrogen including in mobility, for example on-vehicle or vessel technologies associated with the power train and fuel tanks
  • are innovating within the end use of hydrogen within industry, heat or power
  • are using high carbon hydrogen carrier fuels of fossil fuel origin, hydrogen carriers must be low carbon
  • are not focussed on innovation within the storage or distribution of hydrogen
  • are focussed largely or have more than 50% of the cost dedication to innovation within the production of hydrogen
  • are business as usual and do not demonstrate significant innovation
  • do not benefit the UK
  • are focussed on the national gas transmission systems
  • are focussed on sustainable aviation fuel
• They cannot fund projects that are:
  • dependent on export performance, for example giving a subsidy to a baker on the condition that it exports a certain quantity of bread to another country
  • dependent on domestic inputs usage, for example giving a subsidy to a baker on the condition that it uses 50% UK flour in their product.

For more information, visit Innovate UK.