‘Sustainability and Funding Opportunities’ was delivered by Sarah Eager, Innovate UK’s Innovation Lead – Smart Infrastructure.

1. Sustainability and
Funding Opportunities
Sarah Eager Innovation Lead –
Smart Infrastructure
@EagerSarah

2. We can’t stop
thinking about
the future
Innovate UK – the UK’s innovation agency
Innovate UK drives productivity and
growth by supporting businesses to
realise the potential of new technologies,
develop ideas and make them a
commercial success.
To stay competitive as an advanced
economy, we need to do things that
others cannot do, or to do things in
different and better ways.

3. Funding Opportunities
• Open Competition
• Innovation loans
• Energy Catalyst round 6
• Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund
• Electric Vehicle charging

4. Open Competitions – 12 July 2018
Innovate UK is here to support the best and most innovative ideas.
Funding: up to £20million
Scope: A clear game-changing and/or disruptive innovative idea leading to new products,
processes or services
Project size:
Project duration between 6 and 18 months: total cost between £25,000 and £500,000.
Project duration between 19 and 36 months: total cost between £25,000 and £2 million.
Competition opens: Thursday 12 July 2018
Competition closes: Wednesday 12 September 2018 12:00pm

5. Innovation loans: July 2018 open competition
Loans for game-changing innovations with strong commercial potential that will significantly
improve the UK economy.
Competition Scope: Innovate UK is to offer up to £10 million in loans to micro, small and
medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Loans are for highly innovative late stage projects with
the best game changing and/or disruptive ideas or concepts. There should be a clear route
to commercialisation and economic impact.
Project size: Loans of between £100,000 and £1 million are available. Projects should last up
to 5 years and are expected to start by December 2018.
Competition opens: Monday 2 July 2018
Registration closes: Wednesday 29 August 2018 12:00pm

6. Grant funding: up to £8m from DFID + £2m from EPSRC
Scope: game-changing, disruptive innovative technologies or business models impacting and
addressing the global need for clean, affordable and secure energy:
- any technology or market (£3m reserved for bio-energy in Africa)
- DFID (ODA): directly address/impact the energy access needs of poor households,
communities or enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia; international
partners very strongly encouraged
Competition opens: 20th August
Registration closes:21st November
Early-stage (tbc)
• UK SME or RTO-led
• at least one SME
• 6-12months
• up to £300k total costs
• min. 50% of costs must be
business partners
Mid-stage (tbc)
• UK business-led
• Collaborative
• 6-24 months
• up to £2m (tbc) costs
• min. 70% business costs
Late-stage (tbc)
• UK business-led
• Collaborative
• 6-30 months
• up to £10m (tbc) costs
• min. 70% business costs
Energy Catalyst – Round 6

7. EV Competition One:
Wireless Charging
for Commercial
Vehicles

8.  Availability: most of charging still happens at home,
and more than 30% of people have no access to off-
street parking (e.g. around 44% in London area)
 Dependability: when relying on public charging
infrastructure, drivers might not have real-time
visibility of spot occupancy (including non-EV
occupancy)
 Business disruption: business EV users, which rely
on electric vehicles as core business assets, need to
suspend their activities to park and charge the
vehicle
EV Charging Infrastructure Issues

9. What is Wireless Power Transfer
(WPT)?
Static Wireless Power Transfer
Semi-dynamic Wireless Power Transfer Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer

10. WPT: Intended use
• Taxis and Light commercial vehicles
are major contributor to pollution
in urban centres: electrifying them
leads to air pollution benefits
• Stopping to charge the vehicle
leads to business disruption
• Their typical cycles involve
frequent stops/slow moving
occurrences
• Using Wireless Charging while
vehicles are stopped/slowly moving
allows for battery top-ups without
further disruption to daily routine

11. Competition structure
1. PHASE ONE: Feasibility study stage
- 3 months, projects must end by March 2019
- Project costs £75,000-£120,000 (grant £50k-£75k)
- Total funding available £600,000
2. PHASE TWO: Demonstration stage - closed to Phase 1 winners
- Up to 18 months, projects must end by February 2021
- Projects costs £3million to £9million
- Total funding available £19.4M

12. Scope: projects should
 Be based around a demonstration of viable static or semi-dynamic wireless
EV charging solutions for taxis and commercial vehicles and show real-world
benefits. These must:
o be clearly tested
o have a scalable business model and a route to market
o where possible, provide evidence of insights into the behaviours of EV
users and all road users
 Your project could demonstrate wireless charging for taxis at locations such
as train stations and airports. For commercial vehicles, this could be at major
depots, hubs or delivery bays.
 All hardware installed as part of demonstrations in phase 2 needs to be
certified and safe for all road users. Projects need to articulate safety aspects
in their applications.
 You must explain what will happen to the infrastructure after the trials. You
can claim the costs of decommissioning from your funding as part of phase 2.

13. We will show preference to phase 1 and phase 2 proposals that
o embed solutions for vehicle authentication, metering and billing
o evaluate the costs (if any) for using the infrastructure during the
trials, and explain these to users
o make the proposed technology easy to use and well integrated with
the plug in infrastructure
o provide appropriate safety guidance and instructions for installers if
charging infrastructure is installed under the road surface
o make the wireless EV charging infrastructure easy to install and
upgrade
Scope: Considerations

14. Your phase 1 and phase 2 projects can focus on:
o all technologies that allow ‘cable-less’ charging
o vehicle retrofitting
o software and hardware development to support demonstrators
o smart charging and vehicle-to-grid technologies, though these cannot
be the core focus of the project
o the development of supporting technology, such as innovative
construction material, that helps to deploy infrastructure
o multiple locations for wireless charging, depending on their focus and
objectives, for example, instead of a single transport hub, you might
have wireless charging at different locations and analyse how the
locations are used
Specific Themes

15. We will not fund projects that:
o seek to implement dynamic wireless charging for ‘charge as you drive’
systems, such as electrification of entire highway or city road lanes
o will cause a significant disruption of public roads
o target private users
o focus on battery research and development
o seek to implement wireless EV charging exclusively for autonomous
vehicles
o have smart charging and vehicle-to-grid technologies as their main focus
Out of Scope

16. EV Competition Two:
Electric Vehicle
Charging for Public
Spaces
https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk

17. How do people get around this?

18. Importance of public space design

19. Competition structure
1. PHASE ONE: Feasibility study stage
- 3 months, projects must end by March 2019
- Project costs £75,000-£120,000 (grant £50k-£75k)
- Total pot £750,000
2. PHASE TWO: Demonstration stage - closed to Phase 1 winners
- Up to 18 months, projects must end by February 2021
- Projects costs £5million to £10million (grants £3-7m)
- Total pot £19.25M

20. Project Consortia
• Projects must be collaborative and business-led
• We expect to see collaborators from across the value chain:
infrastructure providers, local authorities, urban planners or
designers, energy providers and hardware manufacturers
• We encourage you to include the relevant local authorities
and councils on your project team. When necessary, you
must have or be seeking planning permissions and
approvals to carry out infrastructural work.
• If you are successful in this phase you can make changes to
your project team before applying to phase 2.

21. Competition Aim
1. To deliver creative new designs and technology
for low-cost, scalable charging solutions for
electric vehicle owners and users without off
street parking.
2. Encourage electric vehicle take up in the area and
maximise improvements in local air quality
3. Provide great experiences for end users, both private and
public (such as street cleaning or delivery drivers)

22. Scope: projects should
Solutions must be convenient to users and designed appropriately for the
proposed location. They can range from on street infrastructure to local
charging hubs.
Your proposal must demonstrate commercially feasible business models and
solutions.
Your project must include attention to, or a study of, social and behavioural
aspects of the proposal. It must be:
• inclusive to all users in the location
• sensitive to issues around accessibility
• avoid monopolising existing parking infrastructure
• give consideration as to whether the location is appropriate,
flood plains etc.

23. We encourage projects that…
• can be used in different streets and
locations
• provide infrastructure that is well
designed, and makes efficient use of
street space
• favour interoperability with charging
providers
• are resilient and as future proof as
possible
• consider potential wider uses such as
traffic movements or crime prevention
• minimise road disruption
• give thought to local energy assets
such as energy storage, grid
balancing, energy trading and smart
charging
• consider infrastructure with multiple
use cases when not in use for
charging

24. Out of Scope
We will not fund projects that cover:
• development of hardware on-board vehicles as a primary focus
• whilst technological design and application will be funded, we are
not looking for fundamental technology development
• solutions targeting home charge point sharing
• replication of solutions already trialled and tested
• solutions that take away from pedestrian spaces, or cause problems
for members of the public with accessibility issues

25. Industrial Strategy Challenge
Fund: Smart local energy systems
● Concepts and designs
● Demonstrators
17/07/2018

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We expect smart local energy systems will
provide holistic solutions to multiple challenges.
• Clean Air
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Comfort
• Mobility
• Cost competitiveness
• Fuel poverty
• Energy security
• Changing consumer preferences
• Environmental and social changes
• Economic growth
• Supply chain and skills development
• Decommissioning of older fossil and
nuclear power stations.
• Rise of wind and solar power generation
and novel energy storage
• Adoption of electric vehicles
• Smart meter roll-out and convergence with
new digital platforms and consumer-based
control systems
• Evolving demand-side, energy storage and
peer-to-peer markets
• Emergence of hydrogen and bio-energy
value chains
• Changing workforce
At a time when our energy system itself is
changing rapidly

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£1.5 million grant
funding available
for a portfolio of
10-20
Smart Local
Energy Systems
Concepts and
Designs
Reduce costs
•Investment & operating
costs
•Lower consumer bills by
25%
•Infrastructure productivity
•System efficiency
Improve
environment
•Carbon Budget 5
•Air Quality
•Built and natural
World-leading
consumer
experience
Resilience
•Energy security
•Short and long timescales
•Cybersecurity
•Environmental changes
•Social changes
Test and scale up
•technologies
•business models
•Regulations, codes and
standards
Smart energy
industry growth
•Local & National
•Private investment
•International leadership
Key
outcomes
desired by
early 2020s
Smart Local Energy System: Concepts and Designs

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Project rules
Length: Projects can last a maximum of 6 months.
Timeframes: All projects must start by January 2019, and end by July
2019
Funding: You could get funding for your eligible project costs of up to:
• 70% if you are a micro or small business,
• 60% if you are a medium-sized business, or
• 50% if you are a large business.
Total project costs: can be between £100,000 and £200,000.
Smart Local Energy Systems: Concepts
and Designs

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£40 m
collaborative
R&D grant
funding for
that will
deliver
ambitious
outcomes by
2022
£40m for 1-3 Smart
Local Energy
Systems
Demonstrators
(e.g. medium-sized
town)
Cheaper, cleaner,
more desirable
energy services for
users
Prosperous and
resilient
communities
Intelligent Scalable
Replicable Investable
Heat, power and
mobility
Evidence to prove
new business
models, system
impacts
Supply chains,
growth, skills, and
processes
Follow on private
investment to repeat
across the country
Smart Local Energy System: Demonstrators

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Project rules
Length: Projects should last 24-36 months, and include annual funding stage
gates. Projects should plan to collect 9-12 months operating data on including a
range of conditions e.g. summer and winter.
Timeframe: All projects must start by January 2019, and end by March 2022,
including evaluation
Funding: You could get funding for your eligible project costs of up to:
• 45% if you are a micro or small business,
• 35% if you are a medium-sized business, or
• 25% if you are a large business.
Total project costs:
• Total project costs can be between £26 million and £160 million. We are
looking for project partners to match between 1:1 and 3:1 the grant requested
from us.
• Projects requesting more than £13 million in grant funding must contact us by
18th June
Smart Local Energy Systems: Demonstrators

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For example including…
• energy network companies
• energy suppliers, big and small
• technology developers, including smart appliance manufacturers,
• smart system developers
• digital systems developers, including data analytics and AI
• design and consumer interface specialists
• engineering service and integration businesses
• exceptional leaders and communicators who can inform and inspire consumers
and private investors
We welcome innovative and ambitious
partnerships

32. Concepts and designs Demonstrators
Project Eligibility
 Business, public sector
organisation or RTO can lead
 At least one UK SME
 Must be collaborative
 Business, university, public sector
organisation or RTO can lead
 At least one:
• UK SME
• university / RTO / public sector org
• local authority
 Must be collaborative
Project cost £100,000 to £200,000
£26 million to £160 million
3:1 private funding
Project length
Up to 6 months
Must start by January 2019 and
end by July 2019
Between 24 and 36 months
Must start by January 2019 and end by
March 2022
Competition details

33. Thank you