UK registered businesses and partners can apply for grants to scale up manufacturing in the power electronics, machines and drives supply chain.

Innovate UK’s Driving the Electric Revolution will invest in projects that enable the scale-up of Power Electronics Machines and Drives (PEMD) manufacturing to develop a resilient, cross-sectoral, UK supply chain for these enabling technologies critical for net zero.

This competition is split into two strands:

• Strand 1: Adopting manufacturing best practice, which aims to fund collaborative feasibility studies that facilitate the transfer of knowledge, solutions, technologies and best practice from other manufacturing sectors and demonstrate the impact of these innovations on the PEMD supply chain.
• Strand 2: Manufacturing process development, which aims to fund innovative process development projects that impact manufacturing cost, capability and efficiency to grow resilient manufacturing PEMD supply chains.

Up to £5 million has been allocated to fund innovation projects across the two competition strands. Funding will be in the form of a grant. For strand 1, each project’s total grant funding request must be between £50,000 and £400,000. For strand 2, each project’s total grant funding request must be between £50,000 and £800,000.

Both competition strands are open to collaborations only. The lead organisation must be a UK registered business of any size. It must collaborate with other UK registered organisations, including businesses of any size, academic institutions, charities, not-for-profits, public sector organisations or research and technology organisations (RTOs).

Applications are accepted from 12 September 2022 until 7 December 2022.

How To Apply

Applications are accepted from 12 September 2022 until 7 December 2022.

Applications are made online.

Further information is available from the Innovate UK website.