Energy Catalyst Round 8: Clean Energy – Experimental Development Competition
Deadline: 16-Sep-2020
Applicants are now invited to submit applications for the Energy Catalyst round 8: clean energy – experimental development competition. The aim of this competition is to support highly innovative, market-focused energy solutions in any technology or sector.
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Your project must encourage the development of products and services that help countries in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, South East Asia or multiple regions access secure, low cost and low carbon energy. They must be targeted at people, public services and local enterprises who are unable to afford or access existing solutions, or who lack the time or expertise to successfully use those solutions.
Subjects
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The Energy Catalyst Programme is open to any energy technology from any sector. However, to be in scope for round 8 your project must address the following 3 subjects:
Energy access
Your project must aim to speed up access to affordable, clean energy services for poor households, enterprises and social institutions in in sub-Saharan-Africa, South Asia, or South East Asia. It must do this by supporting the development, testing and/or scale up of innovative technologies and business models.
The energy ‘trilemma’
Your proposal must tackle all 3 areas of the energy ‘trilemma’:
be clean
be affordable
enable security of supply and energy access
Gender and social inclusion
Your application must take into account gender equality and social inclusion issues. You must demonstrate the following in your response and logic model:
identify the main beneficiaries
describe how you will mitigate any negative effects
provide a plan of how to address both gender and social inclusion during the life of your project
explain how your project will encourage equality
Specific Themes
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Your project could focus on, for example:
making new solutions more affordable;
integrating technologies in new systems or business models to help unlock finance and deployment;
developing technologies or partnership business models that address other barriers to deployment, such as skills required to develop or maintain technologies;
unlocking under-served market segments that existing solutions are not reaching at scale, such as rural areas, frontier markets or specific energy end-users.
Funding Information
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Your late stage project’s total eligible costs must be between £50,000 and £5,000,000.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for funding you can be from any country. If you are an international organisation, you need to partner with a UK administration lead and must be one of the following types of organisation:
business
research technology organisation (RTO)
academic organisation
charity
public sector organisation
International organisations must partner with a UK registered administrative lead. If you are a UK SME, you can apply on your own.
Your project must involve a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME), from anywhere in the world, either as a technical lead or consortium member.
State Aid
Any UK registered business claiming funding must be eligible to receive state aid at the time they confirm you will be awarded funding. It is not possible to award grant funding to organisations meeting the condition known as undertakings in difficulty. However, if you are unsure please take legal advice.
Your project
Your project must: have total eligible costs between £50,000 and £5,000,000
start by 1 April 2021
end by 31 March 2024
last between 12 and 36 months
must intend to use the results to help deliver clean energy access in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, or South East Asia
must involve at least one partner with a legal entity in one of the focus countries in Africa and South Asia, this could include in-country offices
must include a UK registered administrative lead
must involve at least one small or medium-sized enterprise (SME), from anywhere in the world
Lead applicants
The administrative lead:
must be a UK registered business of any size
will be the recipient of the award and will distribute funding to the international partners (known as a ‘hub and spoke’ model)
will manage and be accountable for the finances of the project in accordance with the terms and conditions of the award
must claim grant funding through this competition
The technical lead:
can be from anywhere in the world
will lead on the development of the scope, work packages within the project and other work from a technical perspective
can be a business (of any size)
must claim grant funding through this competition
If you are an SME from outside the UK you cannot apply on your own as there must be a UK administrative lead.
UK- registered businesses of any size can be both the administrative and technical lead.
Academic institutions cannot lead or work alone.
For more information, visit https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/629/overview