Energy Game Changer competition offers funding for innovation

Innovate UK is to invest up to £1.5 million in technical feasibility studies to encourage new entrants to the energy sector and stimulate the adoption of disruptive technologies.

 

It says: "The aim of this competition is to find innovative solutions to long-standing challenges faced by the energy sector. We believe that game-changing technologies can solve these problems, either by the development of completely new ideas or through technology transfer from other sectors. We are therefore seeking proposals that are led by innovative SMEs, which can provide disruptive solutions to the challenges that are in the scope of the competition.
 
"To encourage novel and radical solutions, projects must be led by an SME whose main business lies outside the energy sector. They can work alone or collaboratively with partners of any size from any sector.
 
"Small businesses could receive up to 70% of their eligible project costs, medium-sized businesses up to 60% and large business partners up to 50%. We expect projects to last 6 to 12 months and to range in size from total costs of £25,000 to £100,000, although we may consider projects outside this range."

There is no registration close date for this competition and you do not need to wait for an application form to be sent to you via email. The deadline for video submissions is at noon on 11 May 2016.

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