Published 7 October 2021
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Flexibility Innovation
Programme: how to apply event 14 June 2022 slides
Details
The 2021 Smart Systems and
Flexibility Plan and Energy Digitalisation
Strategy identified key BEIS
policy priorities to enable the transition to a smart, flexible
and decarbonised energy system.
To support the transition, the Flexibility Innovation Programme
seeks to enable large-scale widespread electricity system
flexibility through smart, flexible, secure, and accessible
technologies and markets. Up to £65 million will be made
available. This overarching programme will fund innovation across
a range of key smart energy applications.
The Flexibility Innovation Programme is part of the Net Zero
Innovation Portfolio and forms a substantial part of a commitment
set out in the 10 point plan for a green
industrial revolution, to invest at least £100 million on
energy storage and flexibility innovation challenges.
Innovation activity to dateInclusive
Smart Solutions Programme
The Inclusive Smart Solutions
Programme, launched 16 February 2023, aims to help achieve a
step-change in access to, purchase of, and/or use of smart energy
technologies, products and services amongst low income and
vulnerable consumers.
Alternative Energy Markets Innovation Programme
Phase 1 of the Alternative Energy Markets
Innovation Programme competition, launched 15 November 2022,
aims to support the design and development of innovative tariffs,
products or services (demand side flexibility propositions) under
alternative energy market scenarios of a future energy system.
This competition has now closed.
Energy system ‘digital spine’ feasibility study
The energy system ‘digital
spine’ feasibility study competition. launched 4 October
2022, is a 6 month feasibility study aiming to support policy
development by understanding the opportunities, risks and
potential architectures of ‘digital spine’ for the energy
system. This opportunity is worth up to £204,000 (excluding VAT).
This competition has now closed.
V2X competition (launched March 2022)
The V2X competition, part of up to £12.6 million V2X innovation
programme, is being delivered by UKRI Innovate UK on behalf
of BEIS.
The phase 1 competition has now closed.
Automatic Asset Registration (AAR) competition (launched
April 2022)
Phase 1 of the Automatic Asset
Registration (AAR) competition aims to support the
development of an automatic, automated secure data exchange
process for registering small-scale energy assets and collecting
and accessing small-scale energy asset data. This competition has
now closed.
Interoperable Demand Side Response Programme competition
(launched May 2022)
The Interoperable Demand Side
Response (IDSR) programme aims to support the development and
demonstration of energy smart appliances for the delivery of
interoperable demand side response.
Smart Meter System based Internet of Things Applications
competition (launched May 2022)
The up to £1.8 million Smart Meter System based
Internet of Things (IoT) Applications programme aims to
support innovation to determine the feasibility of, and trial,
Smart Meter System based IoT sensor devices.
Smart Meter Energy Data Repository competition (launched
May 2022)
The Smart Meter Energy Data
Repository (SEDR) programme of up to £1 million aims to
support innovation to determine the technical and commercial
feasibility of a smart meter energy data repository.
Collaboration platform
The Flexibility
Innovation Collaboration platform is a match-making platform
which brings together organisations to connect and collaborate,
in order to support the development of collaborative applications
under the Flexibility Innovation Programme.
