{"id":56869,"date":"2015-05-14T08:41:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T08:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=d4205b60f73417f050d20f77fe55554c"},"modified":"2015-05-14T08:41:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T08:41:19","slug":"news-story-innovation-in-energy-funding-opportunity-for-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=56869","title":{"rendered":"News story: Innovation in energy: funding opportunity for business"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Energy Catalyst is open to innovative businesses and researchers from any sector with projects that address three major challenges facing the energy industry.<\/p>\n<p>These challenges are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>reducing emissions<\/li>\n<li>improving security of supply<\/li>\n<li>reducing cost<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This so-called \u2018energy trilemma\u2019 creates major global opportunities that UK businesses are well-placed to take advantage of.<\/p>\n<p>The Energy Catalyst is run by Innovate UK, the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.epsrc.ac.uk\">Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/department-of-energy-climate-change\">Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"key-features\">Key features<\/h2>\n<p>The Catalyst offers three types of funding award:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>early-stage awards: technical feasibility  <\/li>\n<li>mid-stage awards: technology development <\/li>\n<li>late-stage awards: pre-commercial technology validation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Early-stage projects must be led by an SME or a research organisation working with a business. Mid-stage and late-stage projects must be led by a business working with other partners.<\/p>\n<p>Total project costs can be up to \u00a3200,000 for early-stage awards, up to \u00a31.5 million for mid-stage awards and up to \u00a310 million for late-stage awards. <\/p>\n<p>The deadline for registration is noon 18 November 2015. A webinar briefing takes place on 20 May 2015.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/interact.innovateuk.org\/competition-display-page\/-\/asset_publisher\/RqEt2AKmEBhi\/content\/energy-catalyst-early-stage-award-technical-feasibility-round-3\">Early-stage awards. Find out more and apply.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/interact.innovateuk.org\/competition-display-page\/-\/asset_publisher\/RqEt2AKmEBhi\/content\/energy-catalyst-mid-stage-awards-technology-development-round-3\">Mid-stage awards. Find out more and apply.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/interact.innovateuk.org\/competition-display-page\/-\/asset_publisher\/RqEt2AKmEBhi\/content\/energy-catalyst-late-stage-awards-pre-commercial-technology-validation-round-3\">Late-stage awards. Find out more and apply.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses are invited to apply for a share of \u00a310 million from the Energy Catalyst for projects addressing challenges in the energy sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56880,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56869\/revisions\/56880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}