UK registered businesses can apply for a share of £2.5 million to demonstrate how green hydrogen can be used to power transport solutions for end users.
Sponsoring Agency: Innovate UK
Type of Fund: Grant
Deadline Available: Available
Deadline Date (mm/dd/yyyy): 06/16/2021
Size of the Fund: More than $1 Million
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of £2.5 million to demonstrate how green hydrogen can be used to power transport solutions for end users.
The Department for Transport will work with Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, to invest up to £2.5 million on innovative projects.
This competition will help the UK to understand how hydrogen can support the long-term development of the Tees Valley Hydrogen Transport Hub (HTH) and drive demand to decarbonise the transport system. This investment will support demonstrations of hydrogen-powered vehicles in real-world operational settings across Tees Valley.
The aim of this competition is to demonstrate the use of green hydrogen in transport to test business models and user operating needs to inform future large-scale hydrogen-based operational trials.
Applicants in this competition must use a hydrogen vehicle or vessel in an operational setting to replace, complement or add to existing transport fleets or operations.
Your projects must:
• demonstrate a green zero-emission hydrogen transport solution by 31 March 2022 for 3 months
• operate the demonstration in an open public setting or controlled environments, such as warehouses and distribution centres
• offer a method to track their solution against performance indicators against a baseline comparator to understand benefits or challenges and then deploy this solution as part of the demonstration
• report on the benefits for passengers, customers and residents in the Tees Valley
• develop plans for long-term activities to create a demand for hydrogen in the Tees Valley from 2022
• Projects can operate vehicles partly outside the Tees Valley but must maintain their main logistical connection with the area.
As part of your project, you must also:
• undertake desk-based research into future engagement with the hub after 31 March 2022
• show how the activity proposed for 2021 to 2022 will support the hub’s longer-term ambitions
• outline how post-2022 activity will transition into a commercially viable ongoing hydrogen-fuelled transport activity or a larger trial on the ground encompassing hydrogen production and its wider use beyond transport.
• explore the policy landscape associated with the deployment of a specific hydrogen vehicle or vessel to help inform wider policy discussions
The project can bring together opportunities in other programmes throughout 2021 to 2022 which includes the Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition.
You can use any number of vehicles in your project including:
• freight vehicles over 3.5 tonnes,
• light commercial vehicles under 3.5 tonnes
• mobile construction plant
• maritime or inland waterway vessels
• trains
• buses
• forklift trucks
Funding Information
Your project must:
• have total eligible costs of between £200,000 and £ 1million
• start by 1 September 2021
• end by 31 March 2022
Eligibility Criteria
• Lead organisation
o To lead a project your organisation must:
be a UK registered business of any size
collaborate with other UK registered businesses, academic institutions, charities, not-for-profit, public sector organisations, research organisations or research and technology organisation (RTO)
carry out its project work in the UK
intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
• Project team
o To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must:
be a UK registered business, academic institution, charity, not-for-profit, public sector organisation or research and technology organisation (RTO)
carry out its project work in the UK
intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
o The lead and at least one other organisation must claim funding by entering their costs during the application.
o Each partner organisation must be invited into the Innovation Funding Service by the lead to collaborate on a project. Once accepted, partners will be asked to login or create an account and enter their own project costs into the Innovation Funding Service.
o Your project can include partners that do not receive any of this competition’s funding, for example, non-UK businesses. Their costs will count towards the total eligible project costs.
More information at: https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/917/overview
Eligible Countries:
United Kingdom
