Energy
Innovate UK Business Connect’s Energy Team is at the centre of our work contributing to delivering the UK’s ambitious Net Zero targets. With specialists in Nuclear, Offshore Wind, Thermal Energy Systems, Batteries, Water, Hydrogen, Sustainable Energy, Grid and Distributed Systems, Electrical Energy Systems and Solar, the team has deep expertise, powerful connections and a track record of successful projects delivering environmental and societal impact.
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The Energy Team aims to simplify the energy innovation landscape by providing rapid transfer of high-quality information on technologies, markets, funding and partnership opportunities. It supports businesses to decarbonise and increase energy efficiency, building on Innovate UK Business Connect’s longstanding record for work in environmental sustainability.
From a seat on the government’s Carbon Connect programme to working with Sellafield to find decontamination solutions, the team’s sector expertise is fundamental in the delivery of a variety of projects and in supporting government departments, large organisations and SMEs.
Innovate UK Business Connect has also supported overseas missions to Canada, China, South Korea and Japan to establish the potential for UK companies to work in collaboration: from this we have a Memorandum of Understanding from a Japanese research centre and joint projects with the US.
Click here for a complete list of our open energy and sustainability funding opportunities.
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Horizon Europe 2026-27: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)
Various closing dates from Mar 2026 to Sep 2027
Funding of up to €100m per call to fight climate change, primarily by improving energy and transport sectors.
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iX Challenge - Reducing gas network purge and vent methane emissions
Opens: 10/03/2026 Closes: 20/04/2026
Cadent Gas is looking for innovative solutions that can significantly reduce or eliminate purging and venting emissions during gas network operations.
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ARIA: Enduring Atmospheric Platforms - full proposals
Opens: 01/03/2026 Closes: 02/04/2026
ARIA seeks proposals to build atmospheric platforms capable of keeping a payload aloft and powered while maintaining precise station-keeping.
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Clean Hydrogen Partnership (Horizon Europe Joint Undertaking) 2026
Opens: 20/02/2026 Closes: 15/04/2026
A total of €105m for projects to support the creation of cutting-edge hydrogen technologies.
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iX Challenge - Autonomous Robotic Inspection Platform
Opens: 23/03/2026 Closes: 04/05/2026
RR-SMR is looking for highly autonomous robotic platforms capable of performing repeatable plant inspections within the Small Modular Reactor (SMR) environment.
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Horizon Europe 2026-27: EU Missions - Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities
2026 calls close Oct 2026: 2027 calls close Sep/Oct 2027
Horizon Europe funding for climate-neutral and smart cities, with up to €12m available for the largest calls
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Hydrogen Supply Chain Directory
This directory shares the details of those who are currently producing, storing, transporting, and using hydrogen. It also showcases solutions-providers who may be able to help these end users meet their hydrogen targets. Innovate UK Business Connect can facilitate knowledge transfer and introductions for users of the directory.
Hydrogen Innovation Network
Innovate UK Hydrogen Innovation Network is a non-competitive advisory group to pool knowledge from existing Hydrogen communities and validate views on the current challenges to enabling low-carbon Hydrogen production at scale and cost.