Funding Competition: Hydrogen Transport Hub Demonstration Phase 2

Deadline: 30-Nov-22

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £20 million to demonstrate how hydrogen can be used to power transport solutions for end users.

The aim of this competition is to create a long-term sustainable demand for hydrogen from transport and to de-risk hydrogen’s adoption for transport owners and operators.

This competition is split into two strands:

Hydrogen Transport Hub Demonstrator phase 2 – Strand 1 – must include capital costs for fixed hydrogen refuelling stations
Hydrogen Transport Hub Demonstrator phase 2 – Strand 2 (this strand).

Specific Themes

Your project can focus on one or more of the following demonstrations:
- Hydrogen fuel-cell transport of any size or designation
- Hydrogen combustion transport – please refer to the ‘Projects they will not fund' section
- Road, maritime, rail, aviation transport
- Non-road mobile machinery, such as forklift trucks and construction machinery
- Agricultural and forestry tractors
- Emergency and rapid response vehicles
- Special purpose vehicles.

Funding Information

Your project’s total costs must be between £500,000 and £3.5 million.

Eligible Projects

Your project must:
- Be aligned to wider Tees Valley strategic priorities and integrate with other hydrogen activity in the region or nationally where feasible
- Commit to provide results and learnings from your project to reinforce the Hydrogen Transport Hub’s commitment to encouraging hydrogen adoption in the UK
- Agree to support the Hydrogen Transport Hub’s training and skills development remit where agreeable
- Integrate with the Tees Valley hydrogen cohort and network to be facilitated by the Hub
- Outline how post-March 2025 operations will transition into a commercially viable ongoing hydrogen-fuelled transport activity or a larger deployment encompassing hydrogen production and its wider use beyond transport.

Eligibility Criteria

Your project must:
- Have total costs of between £500,000 and £3.5 million
- Start by 1 June 2023
- End by 31 March 2025
- Last up to 22 months
- Include vehicle demonstrations of at least 6 months
- Carry out its project work in the UK
- Intend to exploit the results from or in the UK.
Lead Organisation
- To lead a project your organisation must:
- Be a UK registered business of any size
- Collaborate with other UK registered businesses, academic institutions, charities, not for profit, public sector organisations, research organisations or research and technology organisations (RTO’s)
Project Team
- To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be a:
  - 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.

Ineligible

They are not funding projects that are:
- Exclusively outside of the Tees Valley
- Duel fuel vehicles which are not wholly zero emission, for example rely partly on fossil fuel
- Heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) of 40 tonne or above
- Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) projects.
- Dedicated technology development projects which do not have the required demonstration
- Not intended to lead to commercial activity after the project end date
- Infrastructure projects related to hydrogen generation
- Desk based studies into a future demonstration outside of the demonstration period
- Dependent on export performance
- Dependent on domestic inputs usage
They are also not funding projects that are Hydrogen combustion where the transport application falls into the one or more of the following classifications:
- Light commercial vehicles under 7.5t, category N, O 1-3
- Buses of any weight or size classification, category M2 and M3
- Motor caravan, campervan, motorhome
- Lorries (trucks) – 2 axels or more with a maximum gross weight (tonnes) of 7.5 or above
- Special purpose vehicles including emergency response vehicles

For more information, visit Innovate UK.

For more information, visit https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/1247/overview/c34543ab-0834-4cb7-bebd-b28440686cbe