Innovate UK, GB and other funders: Net zero hydrogen fund – strand 1 development expenditure

28/04/2022

22/06/2022

Innovate UK and the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy invite proposals for their stand one of the net zero hydrogen fund call. This provides development expenditure support for front to end engineering design and post-FEED studies for new low carbon hydrogen production facilities. The aim of the call is to support the commercial deployment of new low carbon hydrogen production projects during the 2020s and the strand one of the funding competition focuses on growing the future pipeline of hydrogen projects in the UK. The competition supports multiple hydrogen production pathways and the projects must address low carbon hydrogen production opportunities and focus on FEED studies, post-FEED studies or both. The project’s total grant request must be between £80,000 and £15 million and funding may cover up to 50 per cent of the eligible project costs. The project may last between six and 15 months.

The proposals must demonstrate how they will contribute to the at-scale production of low carbon hydrogen by 2025. Carbon Dioxide Reduction & Mitigation; Hydrogen & Synthetic Fuels

The lead organisation must be a UK registered business of any size. Academic institutions, research and technology organisations, public sector organisations or charities cannot lead or work alone or a project, but they may collaborate with the lead. A business can lead on up to two applications, which must be materially different, and can be included as a collaborator in a further two applications. An academic institution or a research and technology organisation, charity, not for profit or public sector organisation can collaborate on any number of applications. The applicant must carry out all of its project work in the UK and intend to exploit the results from or in the UK.