{"id":90897,"date":"2018-04-11T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T08:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=6e6adc15b1e3240a40ad9d0ca1dcb368"},"modified":"2018-04-11T08:37:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T08:37:00","slug":"news-story-smart-energy-systems-new-funding-and-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=90897","title":{"rendered":"News story: Smart energy systems: new funding and events"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/\">UK Research and Innovation<\/a> \u2013 through Innovate UK and the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/epsrc.ukri.org\/\">Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council<\/a> (EPSRC) \u2013 has announced a new fund for research and industry to develop future smart energy systems and prove their use at scale.<\/p>\n<p>The energy revolution challenge will bring together businesses working with the best research &amp; expertise to develop and demonstrate new approaches to provide cleaner, cheaper energy. This includes linking low-carbon power, heating and transport systems with energy storage and advanced IT to create intelligent, local energy systems and services.<\/p>\n<p>It is part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/industrial-strategy-challenge-fund-joint-research-and-innovation\">Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"the-first-opportunities-and-where-to-find-out-more\">The first opportunities and where to find out more<\/h2>\n<p>The first funding opportunities through this challenge will make up to \u00a341.5 million available for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ground-breaking, localised energy system demonstrators. We will be looking to fund projects across the UK<\/li>\n<li>projects that develop novel concepts that could revolutionise local energy provision<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Full details of the competitions will be announced shortly. Businesses that want to find out more in the meantime can go to one of the briefing events:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/iscf-clean-growth-grand-challenge-cardiff.eventbrite.co.uk\">Cardiff on 18 April 2018<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/iscf-clean-growth-grand-challenge-belfast.eventbrite.co.uk\">Belfast on 25 April 2018<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/iscf-clean-growth-grand-challenge-glasgow.eventbrite.co.uk\">Glasgow on 26 April 2018<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/iscf-energy-rev-challenge-leeds.eventbrite.co.uk\">Leeds on 9 May 2018<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n<a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/iscf-energy-rev-challenge-london.eventbrite.co.uk\">London on 15 May 2018<\/a>. You can also <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/iscf-energy-rev-challenge-webcast.eventbrite.co.uk\">register to watch online<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Details of further activity with the fund will also be announced shortly.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>To get updates and the latest news from Innovate UK <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/info.innovateuk.org\/emailpref\">sign up for the newsletter<\/a> or to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/email-signup\/new?email_signup%5Bfeed%5D=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fannouncements.atom%3Fannouncement_filter_option%3Dnews-stories%26departments%255B%255D%3Dinnovate-uk\">get email alerts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"more-about-the-challenge\">More about the challenge<\/h2>\n<p>The Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund will make sure that research and innovation is at the heart of government\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/topical-events\/the-uks-industrial-strategy\">Industrial Strategy<\/a>. This sets out 4 grand challenges in industries in which the UK is determined to pioneer progress.<\/p>\n<p>The energy revolution falls under the clean growth challenge, which will support the UK to be a world leader in low-carbon technologies, systems and services.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>Find out more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/industrial-strategy-challenge-fund-joint-research-and-innovation#prospering-from-the-energy-revolution\">energy revolution challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fund for businesses and researchers is the latest to be announced under the government\u2019s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.<\/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\/90897"}],"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=90897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90908,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90897\/revisions\/90908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}