{"id":64968,"date":"2015-12-03T15:23:48","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T15:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=c49a28cbb59e4a7a2f2a94b83a8662a1"},"modified":"2015-12-03T15:23:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T15:23:48","slug":"news-story-game-changers-innovations-from-business-for-the-energy-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=64968","title":{"rendered":"News story: Game-changers: innovations from business for the energy sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Small businesses with innovative ideas that could be adapted to the energy sector are invited to apply for a share of \u00a31.5 million to support feasibility studies.<\/p>\n<p>Innovate UK is seeking businesses operating primarily outside the energy sector to lead projects that tackle challenges in the oil and gas, nuclear or energy systems.<\/p>\n<p>We expect businesses working in inspection, ICT, digital, sensors, virtual reality, gaming, robotics, autonomous systems, advanced materials and manufacturing will have ideas of interest to the energy industry.<\/p>\n<p>Existing defence, aerospace, automotive, telecommunications, forensics, medical, space and creative industries technologies could also be relevant. <\/p>\n<p>The challenges are in 3 key areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>inspecting buildings, vessels and components, including identifying defects without human entry and repairing corrosion<\/li>\n<li>dealing with and analysing the large volumes of data delivered by the energy industry<\/li>\n<li>finding innovative new ways to get users involved in reducing their energy bills <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>this competition opens on 28 March 2016, and the deadline for registration is at noon on 4 May 2016<\/li>\n<li>projects must be led by a small or medium-sized business mainly operating outside the energy sector<\/li>\n<li>the lead business can work alone or with partners of any size from any sector<\/li>\n<li>we expect total project costs to range between \u00a325,000 and \u00a3100,000 and for projects to last 6 to 12 months<\/li>\n<li>small businesses could receive up to 70% of their project costs, medium-sized businesses up to 60% and large businesses up to 50%<\/li>\n<li>there will be an information webinar on 11 December 2015 and consortium-building workshops in early 2016. A briefing event for potential applicants takes place in London on 6 April 2016. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/interact.innovateuk.org\/competition-display-page\/-\/asset_publisher\/RqEt2AKmEBhi\/content\/energy-game-changer\">Find out more about this Energy game-changer competition and apply.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses new to energy and with expertise in inspection, big data and customer engagement can win funding to help deliver radical change.<\/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\/64968"}],"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=64968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}