EPSRC: Develop and integrate energy storage technologies at grid scale

05/08/2021

05/10/2021

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council invites applications for their develop and integrate energy storage technologies at grid scale call. This supports fundamental research into developing and integrating technologies to enable energy storage at grid level. The project must be in the remit of EPSRC with at least 50 per cent of the proposed work falling within the energy theme at EPSRC. The total budget is £12 million. Grants are awarded at 80 per cent of full economic cost for projects worth between £500,000 and £1.5m.

The following themes are of interest: •mechanical storage systems; •compressed-air energy storage; •storage of heat, hydrogen or natural gas; •heat pumps or pumped heat electrical storage. Projects that could be described as battery technologies or formation of chemical storage vectors, such as hydrogen will not be funded.

Applicants must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding, including UK higher education institutions, research council institutes, UKRI-approved independent research organisations, public sector research establishments and NHS bodies with research capacity. PIs and co-investigators must be employed at the submitting research organisation at a level equivalent to lecturer or above, hold a fixed-term contract that extends beyond the duration of the proposed project, and the host research organisation gives all the support normal for a permanent employee, hold an EPSRC, royal society or royal academy of engineering fellowship aimed at later career stages or hold fellowships under other schemes that are eligible for EPSRC funding.