This scheme aims to increase the range of options available to UK industry to enable them to decarbonise at a faster rate.
Fund Information
- Funding body:
- Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
- Maximum value:
- Discretionary
- Application deadline:
- 23/09/2021
Background
The Industry of Future Programme competition is part of the £1 billion Net Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP). This scheme is funded and administered by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
Objectives of Fund
The Industry of Future Programme (IFP) aims to support companies with high carbon emission and energy use to transition to a low-carbon future through increased energy efficiency and implementation of decarbonisation technologies. The programme will look for sites outside the ‘Industrial clusters’, dispersed sites as well as for industrial collaboration in local areas.
The programme will consist of an initial scoping study, with follow-up activities which will be defined at a later date. Applicants will have a roadmap developed for their site by the Government’s procured engineering delivery partner.
Up to 40 industrial sites can apply for funding to develop industrial decarbonisation roadmaps. The initial funding for scoping studies will include:
- Identification of optimal decarbonisation options.
- The permanent installation of technologies, including research and development of technologies.
- Testing of technology solutions.
Value Notes
The Government proposes to allocate up to £30 million to cover the whole Industry of Future Programme (IFP). Up to £4 million is planned to procure the Scoping Study contractor to develop industrial decarbonisation roadmaps for up to 40 industrial sites, including data centres.
The contractor will work with industrial sites, to assess the options for implementing technologies that could reduce the site’s carbon emissions and develop a deep decarbonisation road map to 2050 NetZero for each individual site. This will include examining the best and most viable fuel switching option, carbon capture utilisation and storage technologies, potential process changes, retrofits, and upgrades of industrial equipment, introduce energy use or optimisation technologies, and installation, operation or maintenance of equipment related to the production of fuels for use on site.
Who Can Apply
Only industrial sites located in the United Kingdom with annual emissions over 10 kt CO2e per site are eligible. All industrial sites and data centres which meet the emissions threshold criterion are eligible to apply, with the exception of Production of Electricity (SIC Code: 35110), Extraction of Natural Gas (SIC Code: 06200) and Extraction of Crude Petroleum (SIC Code: 06100).
Restrictions
BEIS is unable to fund retrospective work on projects.
Eligible Expenditure
Projects can only be funded where evidence can be provided, that innovation would not be taken forward (or would progress at a much slower rate) without public sector funding.
Due to the nature of the competition for the industrial sites where a delivery partner will be carrying out the decarbonisation roadmaps for the selected industrial sites, eligible costs are not part of this application.
Location
United Kingdom
How To Apply
In order to apply to the Scoping Study Competition, applicants must register by 23 September 2021 (12:00 BST). Applicants will then be asked to submit an online application by 14 October 2021 (12:00 BST).
Applications are made online at the programme website.
More details can be accessed here
Useful documents & links
Scheme - Guidance Document
Useful Links
Addresses and contacts
For further information on how to obtain this grant locally, please contact the following:
- Enquiries
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Email: [email protected]