Scaling Interoperable V2X: bidirectional charging

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Description

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will invest up to £15 million from the UKRI Research & Development Missions Accelerator Programme: Clean Energy Superpower Mission. This is subject to a sufficient number of high quality applications being received.

This investment will accelerate the provision of electric vehicle (EV) flexibility for the UK electricity system by 2030 through interoperable vehicle to everything (V2X) bidirectional charging. This will contribute to the Mission ambition of delivering at least 2 gigawatts (GW) of additional peak time consumer led flexibility by 2030.

You can refer to the supporting information section for further context to this competition.

The aims of this competition are to:

• develop reliable, reproducible, multiparty interoperable domestic and non-domestic V2X products and propositions that will maximise the delivery of EV flexibility by 2030 and beyond
• bring together diverse stakeholders across the V2X value chain, spanning the energy and transport sectors, to tackle barriers to the scale up of V2X bidirectional charging
• increase grid operators’, users, investors and wider sector confidence in V2X
• accelerate market adoption of interoperable V2X through evidence, education and knowledge sharing

Your project must:

• develop multiparty interoperability solutions to ensure that EV flexibility is user centred, equitable, and delivered for the long term
• evidence those multiparty interoperable V2X solutions at an impactful scale, in a multi-seasonal, real world context, to build an understanding of reliable flexibility under varying demand, generation and market conditions
• deliver evidence of the energy flexibility generated by that solution
• share lessons learnt and disseminate widely to build sector capability, increase market confidence and accelerate adoption of V2X
• test and evidence multiparty interoperable solutions with relevant V2X standards

In applying to this competition, you are entering into a competitive process. This competition has a funding limit, so we may not be able to fund all the proposed projects. It may be the case that your project scores highly but we are still unable to fund it.

UKRI may decide not to fund an application if it does not meet the required quality threshold or strategic objectives.

UKRI reserves the right to adjust the funding allocation or not to make an award.

Our experience from similar competitions suggests that you could have 20% chance of success.

We consider a range of factors when determining whether to provide funding to applicants. This includes an assessment of prior conduct, such as any outstanding payments owed to Innovate UK or UKRI. Such factors may influence the funding decision, potentially resulting in a refusal of funding or an award subject to additional scrutiny.

We also reserve the right to adjust funding allocations for any of our competitions. This may be in response to changes in policy, portfolio funding considerations or broader government funding decisions.

This competition closes at 11am UK time on the deadline stated in this Innovate UK competition brief. We cannot guarantee other government or third party sites will always show the correct competition information.

Project size

Your project’s total eligible grant funding request must be between £2 million and £7.5 million. Under RD&I Streamlined Route rules, no more than £3 million grant funding can be awarded to a single enterprise in one…

Eligibility

Who can apply

Your project

Your project must:

• have a total grant funding request of between £2 million and £7.5 million
• last between 18 and 31 months duration
• start by 1 June 2027
• end by 31 December 2029

Any organisation receiving funding must carry out its project work in the UK, intend to exploit the results in the UK, and spend most of the funding within the UK.

Projects must always start on the first of the month, even if this is a non-working day. You must not start your project until your Grant Offer Letter has been approved by Innovate UK. Any delays within Project Setup may mean we need to delay your project start date.

You must only include eligible project costs in your application. See our overview of eligible project costs.

We encourage all technical consortium partners to become active participants in Task 53 to continue the UK’s leading role in this space. To enable this, membership and participation costs can be included as eligible project costs.

You can read the Background Information section for more information on Task 53 and the benefits of membership.

If your project’s total grant funding request or duration falls outside of our eligibility criteria, you must provide justification by email to support@iuk.ukri.org at least 10 working days before the competition closes. We will then decide whether to approve your request.

If your project does not meet our criteria and you have not requested justification approval, your application will be made ineligible and it will not be sent for assessment.

Lead organisation

To lead a collaborative project your organisation must be a UK registered business of any size or a research and technology organisation (RTO).

More information on the different types of organisation can be found in our Funding rules.

Academic institutions cannot lead.

Project team

To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:

• business of any size
• academic institution
• charity
• not for profit
• public sector organisation
• research and technology organisation (RTO)

Participation from multiple organisations across the V2X value chain is encouraged. Applicants should consider how their consortium composition will maximise impact by 2030.

Collaborative projects must also include, or clearly demonstrate access to, appropriate energy system expertise. Without this capability, it is unlikely that projects will be able to deliver the real world impact by 2030 required within the

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