£9.2 million government funding available for energy efficiency projects
Monday, 24 July 2017
The Carbon Trust is managing a new £9.2 million Industrial Energy Efficiency Accelerator (IEEA) to help strengthen the global competitiveness of British industry. The IEEA aims to lower costs and increase the number of available energy efficient technologies for a range of industrial sectors.
The programme is open to all sectors and targets innovations that will have the largest cross-sectoral impact on industrial energy efficiency and reducing carbon emissions.
What will it involve?
Technology innovators
The IEEA will run an open application process until January 2018 to engage with technology developers looking for opportunities to demonstrate their near-commercial solutions and access incubation support. The Carbon Trust will support the most promising technology innovators with finding an industry partner to join forces to demonstrate the innovation over a material length of time to enable results to be captured to increase market confidence.
Industry
Industrial players across a number of sectors will be encouraged to apply to receive support in finding the best innovations that will have the greatest impact on their operations through a series of brokerage activities. A ‘fast track’ process is also available for those industrial companies already engaged with a technology developer and looking for funding and advice. Pilot projects that will go on to receive funding and implementation advice will be selected through the competitive application process based on a number of criteria.
BEIS industrial energy efficiency accelerator workshops
To help both industry and innovators identify the best opportunities and to encourage applications from high quality, high impact pilot projects, the Carbon Trust will be running a series of engagement workshops.
A webinar is also taking place 26 July: register here.
The workshop will cover:
INTRODUCTION TO IEEA PROGRAMME
(Including eligibility criteria)
TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION REVIEW AND
PRIORITISATION:
To identify those with the highest cross-sectoral impact, and feasible for demonstration
IDEAS SESSION:
Sector-focused discussions on potential projects building upon the technology prioritisation and examination of related opportunities and challenges
NETWORKING AND BROKERAGE:
Introduction to technology developers to stimulate the development of demonstration partnerships
Dates:
16 August 2017 - Manchester
24 August 2017 - London
7 September 2017 - Glasgow
13 September 2017 - Birmingham
For further information contact: [email protected]
