EPSRC: Digital solutions to reduce energy demand and carbon production

16/09/2021

07/10/2021

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, in partnership with Siemens, invites applications for its digital solutions to reduce energy demand and carbon production call. This supports feasibility studies exploring digital technologies that reduce energy demand and carbon production. The overall aim is to study the role of digital technologies in supporting a data-enabled net zero transition, ensuring the UK can reach net zero emissions by 2050. The total budget is £400,000 to fund approximately eight proposals for up to one year. Grants are worth up to £50,000 each to fund up to 80 per cent of the project’s full economic cost.

Projects must address one of the following research themes: •development and application of sustainable digital technologies to manage supply and demand; •business model innovations to support the digitalisation of energy; •digital-enabled analysis of embodied emissions along whole value chains and embedded in product solutions.

Applications are open to researchers from UK HEIs, research council institutes, UKRI-approved independent research organisations, eligible public sector research establishments and NHS bodies with a research capacity. Applicants must be resident in the UK and hold a fixed-term contract at their institution that extends beyond the duration of the proposed project, be employed at a level equivalent to lecturer or above, hold an EPSRC, Royal Society or Royal Academy of Engineering fellowship aimed at later career stages, or hold fellowships under other schemes. Holders of postdoctoral level fellowships are not eligible to apply.