Open Digital Solutions for Net Zero Energy

Innovate UK has launched a competition for organisations to apply for a share of £1.2 million to develop open solutions to accelerate decarbonisation of energy in the UK. This is a Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) competition funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

The competition will stimulate the development of collective equity for the sector and the creation of communities to support the development of reusable and open net zero energy solutions.

Your open solutions should accelerate the delivery of net zero energy in the UK. The outputs should be adopted by first users and have potential to be supported and adopted by the wider community and other users across the energy sector.

You can develop an open solution, across the value chain, for any of the following net zero energy sectors:

• power
• hydrogen
• carbon capture, use and storage
• heat
• transport
• buildings
• industry
• whole system integration

Your open solution can be:

• software
• hardware
• firmware
• data solution

Innovate UK expects to fund four projects - each contract will be up to £300,000 and cover each project for up to nine months.

See: Competition overview - SBRI Competition – Open Digital Solutions for Net Zero Energy - Innovation Funding Service (https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/1078/overview)