Deadline: 18-Jun-21
The Offshore Wind Growth Partnership (OWGP) is seeking applications for its Development Grants Program to help companies to improve their competitiveness or increase capability and enable a step-change in their growth.
The funding competition aims to encourage more businesses into the offshore wind supply chain by helping to overcome barriers to diversification, and for UK companies already working in the offshore wind sector to grow their market share through increased competitiveness and development of new products or services.
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. The call is 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. This covers investment in new equipment and facilities as well as the development and implementation of new processes.
Focus Areas
OWGP is seeking applications from UK companies with project 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 near-to-market technologies, products and/or services to improve operational performance, reliability and/or efficiency.
- Other activity that will grow the company and lead to increased jobs, turnover and/or exports.
Funding Information
- Projects can be between 9 months and 24 months duration.
- Your project’s total eligible grant funded costs must be between £100,000 and £1,000,000. This is range of grant that can be awarded.
- Applicants may receive funding for eligible project costs of up to 50% of the total project budget.
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
- 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.
- Projects must be delivered in the UK, although the OWGP will consider proposals targeted towards export opportunities. To be eligible to apply, organisations must be a UK registered business of any size but must be able to contribute at least 50% of the total project budget.
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 further in offshore wind
- Have not received OWGP grant funding (as lead organisation) through a funding competition launched in the last 12 months.
- If resubmitting a proposal from a previous OWGP funding competition that was unsuccessful, this is the first and only resubmission.
- 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, jobs, exports and IP
- Provide an 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
- In addition to the Applicant, we 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)
For more information, visit https://owgp.org.uk/about/grant-funding/