Dates:
- Competition opens: 22 April 2024
- Competition closes: 24 May 2024, 11:00am
- Applicants notified: 28 June 2024
- Project start date & duration: Start by 1 October 2024, last between 6 and 12 months
Scope
Projects must demonstrate:
- enable, support or deliver digital twins in energy networks
- improve the cyber resilience of the energy networks
- improve access to high quality and interoperable data in energy networks
- engage with end users in its development
Applications are welcomed from SMEs who specialise in: cybersecurity; data interoperability; operational technologies; analytics and digital twins. SMEs from outside the energy sector are encouraged to apply
Specific Themes
- developing digital twins and their underpinning technologies
- enabling future federated digital twins
- system modelling for data driven decision making
- improving data interoperability, sharing, quality and security
- securing operational and control room technologies
- cybersecurity threat detection, analysis and mitigation
- data driven technologies for grid stability, forecasting, balancing
- demand side response security such as Energy Smart Appliances
- data sharing licensing and legal considerations
Projects that will not be funded
Projects that: are not in scope for this competition; do not have an application for cyber resilience of the energy grids; do not consider interoperability of data; are only applicable on gas networks.
Eligibility
- Must be collaborative projects led by a UK-registered business and include at least one SME. Collaborators must be UK-registered organisations
- Project work must be carried out in the UK and project results exploited from UK
- Subcontractors are allowed, preferably UK-based, with appropriate and justified costs.
- Subsidy Control and EC State Aid funding rules apply
Funding Rates
- Total eligible project costs between £100,000 and £300,000 (£1.2M pot).
| Project maturity (up to but not including commercialisation) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Organisation size | Industrial Research (TRL3-5) | Experimental Development (TRL 6-7) |
| Micro/small business | <70% | <45% |
| Medium sized business | <60% | <35% |
| Large business | <50% | <25% |
Research organisations in your consortium can share up to 50% of the UK total eligible project costs.
How PNO can support you
The UK team has a strong track record in securing some of the most competitive national and European grants on behalf of its clients, with a full understanding of how a project should be presented to stand the highest chance of success. Each year in the UK alone, we are responsible for the submission of more than 100 funding applications across all sectors and priority areas. Based on this extensive experience, through careful project selection and using key insight into how a project should be best positioned, we consistently achieve success rates that are more than 5 times the typical success rates for UK national schemes and EU programmes.
