The electricity network faces growing pressure from ageing infrastructure, increased electrification, and the integration of intermittent renewable energy sources. To address these challenges, smarter systems are needed for real-time monitoring, precise energy flow control, efficient and cost-effective transmission, and better management of intermittent resources like solar, wind, and battery storage.
Advanced semiconductors, superconductors, and wireless power transmission technologies offer opportunities to enhance grid resilience and capacity, reduce costs, and support the transition to a clean power system. However, barriers such as high production costs and system integration challenges must be overcome to modernise energy networks.
Through focusing on this challenge, SIF aims to:
- Advance the integration of next-generation power electronics and semiconductor technologies to enhance grid efficiency, stability, and capacity.
- Demonstrate and validate superconducting transmission technologies to support scalable, high-capacity, and low-loss electricity networks.
- Develop technical and economic evidence on wireless power transmission in the UK to support evaluation of its potential and feasibility.
This webinar will set the context for this challenge theme and provide useful references and examples on how this challenge plays out in practice. It will bring together innovators, industry experts, network professionals, and other relevant stakeholders to share insights and create a common understanding of challenges and barriers to accelerating the development and deployment of advanced energy transmission technology-based solutions to enhanced grid performance.
Please join us to learn more about the challenge theme and contribute to the conversation. The webinar will also be followed by a collaborative workshop to ideate potential solutions and bring partners together - you can express your interest through this form: How to boost grid efficiency with advanced energy transmission technology? Tickets, Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM | Eventbrite
About the Strategic Innovation Fund
The Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund was established in 2021, as a programme with funding of £450m+ over five years, to drive innovation and transformation in energy networks. By the end of 2024, the programme has committed over £270m in total funding across 234 projects in different stages of development (Discovery, Alpha, Beta).
Ofgem and Innovate UK recently launched Round 5 of the Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) to address strategic energy sector needs. For more information, please visit the SIF website here: Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) | Ofgem
Webinar agenda:
- Overview of the challenge
- Overview of the SIF process and requirements
- Expert deep dives on the challenge, including industry case studies
- Examples of current innovations in the space
- Q&A with our expert panel Q&A with our expert panel
Who is this webinar for?
- Consumer representative organisations
- Energy networks and network planners
We look forward to seeing you there!
Please use your work email address to register so we can contact you about Carbon Trust-managed events in a GDPR compliant way.
This event is hosted by the Carbon Trust on behalf of Innovate UK in support of Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) Round 5 Ideation Activity. By submitting this event registration form, you are agreeing for your personal data to be shared with the Carbon Trust and Innovate UK for the purpose of registering you for this event and contacting you regarding ideation workshops and other support activities.
Your personal data will be held in accordance with the data protection policies of Innovate UK and the Carbon Trust. Innovate UK will be the data controller for personal data submitted through this form and Carbon Trust will be its data processor.
For more details, Innovate UK’s Privacy Policy and UK Research and Innovation's Privacy Policy are accessible below:
https://www.ukri.org/publications/innovate-uk-privacy-notice-and-information-management-policy/
https://www.ukri.org/who-we-are/privacy-notice/
Carbon Trust’s Privacy Notice is accessible here: https://www.carbontrust.com/privacy
This webinar will be run on Microsoft Teams. Participant details such as names may be visible to all attendees. The webinar will be recorded and an edited version will also be made available on a video sharing platform by CT and/or IUK. Participant names may appear in the recording. By registering for this event, you are happy for your details to be visible.
If you have any questions, concerns or require further clarification, please contact us via SIF_Ofgem@iuk.ukri.org.
