Deadline: 11-Nov-22
The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy is accepting applications for Industrial Fuel Switching (IFS) Competition to support the development of fuel switching and fuel switch enabling technologies for UK industry. This includes fuel switches from high carbon fuels to hydrogen, electricity, biomass, and other low carbon fuels.
The Industrial Fuel Switching (IFS) Competition aims to support the development of fuel switching and fuel switch enabling technologies for UK industry. This includes fuel switches from high carbon fuels to hydrogen, electricity, biomass, and other low carbon fuels.
Switching industry to lower carbon fuels will be critical for meeting the UK’s legally binding commitment to achieve Net Zero by 2050.
Objectives
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The IFS competition aims to achieve the following objectives:
- Demonstrate potential for industrial greenhouse gas emissions reduction via industrial fuel switching technologies for UK industry to reach net zero.
- Demonstrate the potential commercial viability of industrial fuel switching solutions.
- Gather evidence to inform future industrial decarbonisation policy making, such as supporting the delivery of the Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy, Industrial Energy Transformation Fund, and further understanding the use of hydrogen, electricity and other low-carbon fuels in industry.
- Increase awareness of potential industrial fuel switching solutions and technologies, by collecting and disseminating findings across industry and investors.
- Strengthen supply chains and skills for industrial decarbonisation around the UK.
Project Scope
- The Competition will fund industrial fuel switch and industrial fuel switch enabling solutions, at TRL 4 to 7 at the start of the project (see Appendix 1: Technology Readiness Levels). It is being delivered over two phases; Phase 1 (total budget up to £5.6m) has supported 21 projects to scope and develop feasible demonstration projects that could be run in Phase 2.
- Phase 2 (total budget up to £49.4m) will be an open competition, supporting the most promising proposals for physical demonstration of the industrial fuel switching or fuel switch enabling solution, whether or not they have come through Phase 1. Demonstrations can take place onsite or at suitable test facilities that simulate industry conditions. There is an expectation that demonstrations should take place in the UK, unless it can be proven that this is not possible. In all cases, by financial value, over 50% of the project funded should be conducted in the UK.
Competition Lots
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The funding for this competition, is divided into three Lots, to ensure development of a wide portfolio of solutions:
- Fuel switch and fuel switch enabling technologies for hydrogen,
- Fuel switch and fuel switch enabling technologies for electrification,
- Fuel switch and fuel switch enabling technologies for biomass, and/or wastes, and/or other net zero compatible fuels.
Funding Information
- An SBRI will fund 100% of eligible costs up to the maximum of £6,000,000.00 per project for Phase 2. Exceptional Phase 2 project proposals the minimum budget of £1 million may be considered so long as the proposal meets the goals of the competition and is of sufficient scale.
Eligibility Criteria
- Phase 2 is open to all industrial sectors and fuel switching technology developers, whether or not they have taken part in Phase 1.
- It supports fuel switch and fuel switch enabling technologies at Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 4 to 7 at the start of the project.
- This competition is to support the development of innovative fuel switch and fuel switch enabling solutions.
- The focus of the Competition is to support the development and demonstration of innovative industrial fuel switching solutions.
- Projects can work with international partners, but they must be led by a UK-based company and over 50% by financial value of the project funded must be conducted in the UK.
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For more information, visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/industrial-fuel-switching-competition-phase-2-demonstration-projects