Deadline: 13-Jan-23
The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy is seeking applications for the Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (IETF) Phase 2 to provide grant funding for feasibility and engineering studies, and for the deployment of industrial energy efficiency and deep decarbonisation projects.
Objective
The Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (IETF) supports industrial sites with high energy use to transition to a low carbon future. The fund targets existing industrial processes, helping industry to:
- Cut energy bills by investing in more efficient technologies; and
- Reduce emissions by bringing down the costs and risks associated with investing in deep decarbonisation technologies.
Funding is allocated through a competitive process aimed at supporting the highest quality and most transformational bids. The fund is open to a broad range of industrial sectors and will support applicants based in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, both within and outside of industrial clusters.
Scope and Structure
Funding will be allocated across three competition strands:
- Studies: feasibility and engineering studies to enable businesses to investigate identified energy efficiency and decarbonisation projects prior to making an investment decision
- Energy Efficiency: deployment of technologies to reduce industrial energy consumption
- Deep Decarbonisation: deployment of technologies to achieve industrial emissions savings
Businesses are invited to bid into any one or more strands, provided their proposal or proposals is/are in scope of the competition’s objectives and meets/meet the eligibility criteria for each strand. Proposals must aim to improve the performance, emissions, and environmental outcomes of the industrial process beyond standards currently required by relevant UK and international law.
Businesses should only apply if the project or study could not go ahead without government support. You must include a justification for the costs claimed in your application. It is your responsibility to demonstrate that your stated eligible costs are necessary in order to achieve the objectives of the competition strand you apply for. If your project passes assessment, but they determine that you have requested more funding than needed, you may be offered a lower grant amount.
Funding Information
- The budget for the Phase 2: Autumn 2022 competition is approximately £70m.
- BEIS reserves the right at its absolute discretion to increase or decrease the size of the funding rounds at any time and for any reason. The launch of this round of IETF funding does not guarantee the availability of any funding now or in the future. All IETF funding must be spent by March 2025
Eligibility Criteria
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Lead Applicant
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To lead an application your organisation must be a registered business in England, Wales or Northern Ireland. If successful, the lead applicant will be the signatory of the grant funding agreement with BEIS. BEIS will have a have a direct relationship with the lead applicant. BEIS will not have a legal relationship with, or pay money to, a third party. The lead applicant must:
- Claim costs as part of the project or study
- Use energy or produce direct emissions as a result of their own industrial processes at an existing site or sites
- Be the end beneficiary of the study or deployed technology and owner of the industrial process.
- They will ask you for your company registration number (e.g. your Companies House ID, where relevant), the registered address of your business in England, Wales or Northern Ireland and the full address of your headquarters (if different from your businesses’ address).
- All lead applicants will be asked for details of your main business activities, organisation size and how many people you employ.
- As the lead applicant you will be responsible for creating your application, ensuring all parts of the application are completed including additional information required to be uploaded, and submitting the application before the deadline.
- Please note that technology developers or other third parties are not eligible to apply as the lead organisation on behalf of an eligible site.
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To lead an application your organisation must be a registered business in England, Wales or Northern Ireland. If successful, the lead applicant will be the signatory of the grant funding agreement with BEIS. BEIS will have a have a direct relationship with the lead applicant. BEIS will not have a legal relationship with, or pay money to, a third party. The lead applicant must:
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Project team
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Lead applicants can collaborate with other organisations provided the project partners claiming grant funding meet the criteria below. To collaborate with the lead your organisation must:
- Be a business of any size, a research organisation, a research and technology
- organisation, an academic institution, charity or a public sector organisation. You must read the guidance to find out which definition your organisation falls into
- Be registered in England, Wales or Northern Ireland
- Carry out its project work in relation to the lead applicant’s site located in England, Wales or Northern Ireland
- If the lead applicant is collaborating with project partners, then the costs relating to the lead applicant and project partners must be included in the application. For all applications the lead applicant must claim a share of the grant funding. BEIS will only have a legal relationship with, or pay money to, the lead applicant. Each partner organisation must be invited into the online application form by the lead applicant to collaborate on the project. They will receive an email invitation from the online application form and will need to accept the invitation and create an account, or sign in to an existing account.
- Your project can include project partners that do not receive any of this competition’s funding, for example businesses registered outside of the UK. You should only add project partner details for organisations who are acting economically in the project.
- If you collaborate with project partners to deliver the project you will be required to sign a collaboration agreement with your project partners if you are successful. This will need to be in place before you can sign your Grant Funding Agreement with BEIS.
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Lead applicants can collaborate with other organisations provided the project partners claiming grant funding meet the criteria below. To collaborate with the lead your organisation must:
For more information, visit IETF.
For more information, visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/industrial-energy-transformation-fund-ietf-phase-2-autumn-2022