£170m Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge (IDC)

UKRI, in collaboration with the dept for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy, is seeking to invest up to £1 million to support collaborative projects to plan their route to cluster decarbonisation as part of the £170m Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge (IDC).

Background

As part of the UK’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF), the IDC programme aims to accelerate the cost-effective decarbonisation of industry by developing and deploying low-carbon technologies. It aims to enable the deployment of infrastructure at scale by the mid-2020s.

It will support delivery of the Clean Growth Grand Challenge and the Industrial Clusters Mission, which has set an ambitious target to establish at least one low-carbon industrial cluster by 2030 and the world’s first net-zero carbon industrial cluster by 2040. The Mission, and this challenge, will help to place the UK at the forefront of the global shift to Clean Growth, by driving the technologies, services and markets to produce low carbon industrial products.

What is the opportunity?

This initial £1m competition represents Phase 1 of a 2-phase competition
process and will enable clusters to develop their ideas for two strands of funding;

Strand 1. Deployment of a low carbon industrial cluster
Strand 2. Roadmap development for a low carbon industrial cluster

You can find out more information about the competitions via the hyperlinks provided above.

Briefing webinar

Please join us at one of our webinar briefings where you will hear directly from the Interim Director of ISCF IDC programme, Bryony Livesey, about the programme and how it is going to kick-start the broader Industrial Clusters Mission.

The briefing will also provide:

• Details on the scope of the 2 strands – Deployment and Roadmaps
• Details on how to apply and the competition process
• An opportunity to ask questions via the webcast

The first webinar will be held @9:30am-12:00pm on 29th October and will include a presentation from the UKRI Competitions Team in addition to the presentations from the UKRI IDC programme Team.

A shorter webinar will be held @9am-11am on 7th November for anyone unable to join the first session.

Agenda for Webinar on 7th November

9:00am (5 mins) – Welcome (Peter Clark, KTN)

9:05am (15 mins) – Intro to IDC programme & Industrial Clusters Mission (Bryony Livesey,

ISCF IDC Interim Challenge Director)

9:20am (15 mins) - Q&A on overall IDC programme

9:35am (30 mins) – Intro to the Deployment & Roadmap Competitions

10:05am (40 mins) - Q&A on Deployment & Roadmap Competitions

10:45am (15 mins) - KTN support and wrap-up (Peter Clark, KTN)

11:00am CLOSE

Webinar: Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund: Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge