Tuesday 3 November 2020

Ofgem and Innovate UK announce £750k for data-based approaches to net zero energy systems

UK businesses have the chance to win a share of £750,000 to spend on developing data applications to help deliver net zero local energy systems.

Ofgem and Innovate UK say the first phase of the newly-launched 'Modernising Energy Data Applications' (MEDApps) competition will award research and development contracts to allow companies to demonstrate the technical feasibility of their proposed solution.

Projects must facilitate progress towards net zero local energy systems whilst improving people's lives by combining energy data with data from other sectors.

They can cover areas such as machine learning techniques, simulation environments and edge computing, and the outputs must benefit the users of local energy systems and provide scalable opportunities to the funded organisation.

Users' views will be recorded and the benefits in terms of costs, decarbonisation, user experience and governance will be evaluated.

Feasibility study research and development contracts can be worth up to £150,000 per project, with each project starting in March 2021 and lasting up to three months - the competition is open until 18th November 2020.