Local Industrial Decarbonisation Plans competition: winning projects
Updated 21 August 2024
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13 projects were successful in securing a portion of the funding available through the LIDP competition.
The list of projects and project partners is accurate as of 21 August 2024.
Bradford Manufacturing Futures
LIDP funding: up to £726,729
Partners
- City of Bradford Metropolitan Council (Lead)
- Produmax Limited
- CR Plus Ltd
- Texfelt Ltd
- Teconnex Ltd
- Denso Marston Ltd
- University of Bradford
- Solenis UK Industries Ltd
- Calbee Group (UK) Ltd
This project will engage with 5 Local Clusters of manufacturing companies within the Bradford district, totalling 52% of the district’s CO2 emissions, including some of the highest emitting sectors. Their work with specialist consultants will create Local Industrial Decarbonisation Plans, profiling the existing activity, developing best practice company plans and mapping and assessing decarbonisation master plans.
DECODE-CORBY
LIDP funding: up to £453,590
Partners
- Electric Corby CIC (Lead)
- University of Northampton
- Slingshot Simulations Ltd
- Faradai Ltd
- North Northamptonshire Council
- Marlec Engineering Company Ltd
The project will explore innovate ways for industry clusters to access shared waste heat, optimise grid capacity costs, and harness the power of large-scale renewable generation in grid constrained areas. DECODE-CORBY will embrace circular economy principles, promote supply chain efficiencies, and foster industrial symbiosis.
Decarbonising Dalton Industrial Estate
LIDP funding: up to £129,063
Partners
- North Yorkshire Council (Lead)
- Northern Powergrid (Yorkshire) plc
- Severfield plc
- Cleveland Steel & Tubes Ltd
- Inspired Pet Nutrition Ltd
- Wetherby Stone Products Ltd
- National Tube Stockholders Ltd
- Citivale Group Holdings Ltd
This project will develop a credible and actionable route to net zero for Dalton Industrial Estate, a multi-business mixed use industrial site in North Yorkshire comprised of large industrial users and smaller businesses. The plan will include detailed assessments of power, heat, transport, resource and natural capital needs for every business on site, and will propose an action plan to take each business to net zero.
Decarbonising the Midlands Aerospace Cluster (DMAC)
LIDP funding: up to £444,739
Partners
- Midlands Aerospace Alliance (Lead)
- Goodrich Actuation Systems Ltd
- Arrowsmith Engineering (Coventry) Ltd
- Integral Powertrain Ltd
- G&O Springs Ltd
- ITP Aero UK Ltd
- Technoset Ltd
This project will create and develop the first credible place-based industrial decarbonisation plan for an aerospace manufacturing cluster. It will do this by engaging with key players along aerospace supply chains in the Midlands region to identify the key manufacturing processes and operations that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and engage with local expertise to assist with the assessment of proposed solutions.
Decarbonising the Port of Poole Maritime Industrial Cluster
LIDP funding: up to £184,487
Partners
- Poole Harbour Commissioners (Lead)
- Bournemouth University
- Condor Ferries Ltd
- BCP Council
- BAI (UK), Ltd
- Sunseeker International Ltd
- Jenkins Marine Ltd
- Southampton Marine Service Ltd
This project will deliver an ambitious decarbonisation plan for the Port of Poole Maritime Industrial Cluster centred on the Port of Poole estate. The aim of this project is to develop a common vision for decarbonisation for the Cluster within a detailed strategy and roadmap with clear targets.
Industrial Decarbonisation for Northern Ireland (ID-NI)
LIDP funding: up to £595,905
Partners
- InvestNI (Lead)
- University of Ulster
- Queen’s University of Belfast
- Camirus Ltd
- Manufacturing Northern Ireland
- Pro Enviro Ltd
- Walsall MBC
- MPANI Ltd
This project is taking an innovative dual-approach to address carbon reduction in Northern Ireland (NI), providing businesses with support, advice, tools, and metrics to enable NI industry to increase productivity whilst, at the same time, reducing emissions.
Making A Better Tomorrow: Decarbonisation of Stakehill Industrial Estate in Atom Valley
LIDP funding: up to £612,376
Partners
- Rochdale Development Agency (Lead)
- SSE Utilities Solutions Ltd
- The Growth Company Ltd
- Rochdale Borough Council
- Stakehill Bid Ltd
This project will leverage the existing Stakehill Business Improvement District (BID) to decarbonise Stakehill Industrial Estate. Experts will develop a strategic plan that will support realising Greater Manchester’s ambitions to be net zero by 2038, and make Stakehill a model for decarbonisation.
NEW-ID (North East Wales Industrial Decarbonisation)
LIDP funding: up to £711,784
Partners
- Net Zero Industry Wales Ltd (Lead)
- Bangor University
- Wales & West Utilities Ltd
- SP Manweb plc
- Uniper Hydrogen UK Ltd
- Net Zero Energy Systems Ltd
This project builds on the momentum gained within the Deeside Decarbonisation Forum and the Net Zero Wales initiative, to increase collaboration, strengthen decarbonisation planning skills and enable development of organisational structures for place-based decarbonisation, within 2 clean growth hubs:
- the Deeside Clean Growth Hub, Flintshire
- the Wrexham Clean Growth Hub
North Kent
LIDP funding: up to £346,992
Partners
- MACE Ltd (Lead)
- University of Kent
- DS Smith Paper Ltd
- MVV Environment Ridham Ltd
- Heathcote Holdings Ltd
- Knauf (UK) GmbH
- Enfinium K3 CHP Ltd
This project aims to deliver a collaborative and progressive carbon reduction programme for the consortium, both individually and as a whole, in addition to identifying new skills and knowledge, and to accelerate the progression of carbon reduction for the benefit of the region and wider UK. These plans will be shared and implemented through a diverse and extensive network of sites owned and operated by the partners, both nationally and internationally, as well as through regional and international academic alliances. The project processes and outcomes will be communicated to wider planning, regulatory and interested stakeholders through broader dissemination activities e.g. conference, training events, social media.
Shoreham Port Industrial Cluster: Local Industrial Decarbonisation Plan
LIDP funding: up to £226,803
Partners
- Shoreham Port Authority (Lead)
- University of Sussex
- Cemex UK Operations Ltd
- Local Fuel Ltd
- Brighton and Hove City Council
- Barrett Steel Shoreham Ltd
- Adur District Council
This project is a collaboration to create a credible and measurable Local Industrial Decarbonisation Plan for the cluster of Shoreham Port, which is an established industrial cluster with 175 businesses based on the 110-acre estate. It aims to reduce emissions and improving local air quality.
Solent Cluster Local Industrial Decarbonisation Plan
LIDP funding: up to £757,601
Partners
- Solent Local Enterprise Partnership Ltd (Lead)
- University of Southampton
- SSE Utilities Solutions Ltd
- ADA Mode Ltd
- Enoflex Ltd
- ESSO Petroleum Company Ltd
- Vector Aerospace International Ltd
- Veolia ES Hampshire Ltd
- GEO Speciality Chemicals UK Ltd
This project will expand on decarbonisation work already being delivered in the Solent. The Solent Local Industrial Decarbonisation Plan (SLIDP) will focus on manufacturing, and is needed to leverage resources to bring wider benefits to further Solent industries. Emitters will have access to CO2 transport and storage infrastructure and low-carbon hydrogen production being developed in the Solent, and the SLIDP will inform how each project partner can benefit from this and other low-carbon infrastructure.
West of England Industrial Cluster Local Industrial Decarbonisation Plan (WCIDP)
LIDP funding: up to £607,571
Partners
- West of England Combined Authority (Lead)
- University of the West of England
- Ameresco Ltd
- Black Country Industrial Cluster Ltd
- Bristol City Council
- Severnside Carbon Capture and Shipping Hub Ltd
- Hydrogen South West
- Severnnet Ltd
- North Somerset Council
This project will create a comprehensive strategy to decarbonise industry in the West of England. As well as developing a decarbonisation strategy, LIDP funding will allow WCIDP to identify and connect existing projects and initiatives, and unite public and private sector stakeholders ensuring the social, economic and environmental benefits of decarbonisation are fully realised.
ZCOP I-RMAP: Zero Carbon Oxford Partnership Industrial Roadmap and Action Plan
LIDP funding: up to £265,032
Partners
- Oxford City Council (Lead)
- Unipart Logistics Ltd
- Oxfordshire Greentech Ltd
- BMW (UK) Manufacturing Ltd
- Oxfordshire County Council
- Advanced Research Clusters Management Ltd
This project will assess industrial emissions, develop robust plans for focused stakeholder engagement, capacity building, and awareness raising, review potential technology options, model decarbonisation pathways, and critically assess surrounding barriers. This will be combined into an evidence-based I-RMAP and recommendations, with a pipeline of projects and actions to be implemented by the Cluster.