UK: Hydrogen Transport Hub Demonstration Phase 2 – Strand 1

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 (this strand)
• Hydrogen Transport Hub Demonstrator phase 2 – Strand 2.

Specific Themes

• Your project can focus on one or more of the following:
  • 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 £8 million.

Eligible Projects

• Your project must:
  • Be aligned to wider Tees Valley strategic priorities and integrate with other hydrogen activity in the region 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 £8 million
  • Start by 1 June 2023
  • End by 31 March 2025
  • Last up to 22 months
  • Include vehicle demonstration 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
  • Dual fuel vehicles which are not wholly zero emission, for example rely partly on fossil fuel
  • Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) projects
  • Heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) of 40 tonne or above
  • 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 to 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 vehicle including emergency response vehicles

For more information, visit Innovate UK.

For more information, visit https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/1246/overview/42fac4af-4aa0-4ea3-996d-d6d8a0de89a7