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Longer Duration Energy Storage Demonstration competition: Stream 1 pre-commercial demonstrator (grants) (closed to applications)

Stream 1 of this competition aims to accelerate commercialisation of innovative longer duration energy storage projects through to actual demonstrations.

• From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Published: 3 June 2021
• Last updated: 17 September 2021 — See all updates

Documents

Longer Duration Energy Storage competition Stream 1: guidance

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Annex 1: Grant Funding Agreement

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Annex 2: Declaration 1 - Statement of non-collusion

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Annex 2: Declaration 2 - Form of bid

PDF, 110 KB, 1 page

Annex 2: Declaration 3 - Conflict of interest

PDF, 130 KB, 2 pages

Annex 2: Declaration 4 - The UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) assurance questionnaire for contractors

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Annex 2: Declaration 5 - Consent for information sharing

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Annex 2: Declaration 6 - Modern slavery statement

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Annex 3: Technical data form

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Annex 4: Financial model

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Annex 5: Project cost breakdown form

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Details

Update 17 September 2021

This competition is now closed to applications.

Update 15 June 2021

• Annex 5: Project cost breakdown form added

This competition aims to accelerate commercialisation of innovative longer duration energy storage projects through to actual demonstrations (Stream 1) or to first-of-a-kind (FOAK) full-system prototypes (Stream 2).

We are looking for proposals for electrical storage, thermal storage and power-to-x technologies which can provide novel grid services and demonstrate cost reductions and improvement in technology performance.

They should not include commercial solutions such as pumped hydro or lithium ion.

The competition has 2 Streams. See Stream 2 for first-of-a-kind (FOAK) full-system prototypes (contracts)

Stream 1: Pre-commercial demonstrator grants - overview

Stream 1 of the competition is focused on pre-commercial demonstrator proposals.

To be in scope technologies must:

• not be commercially deployed in the UK or elsewhere
• be at technology readiness level (TRL) 6 or 7

£37.2 million of innovation funding is available for Stream 1 in the form of capital grants:

• a maximum of £7.2 million for Phase 1, with a maximum expected grant value of £1 million per project. We intend to fund around 9 projects in Phase 1
• £30 million is currently allotted to Phase 2, with the maximum expected funding per project of £11 million. We intend to fund around 3 projects in Phase 2

Applicants must secure matched private investment.

Key dates

1. Information event

We held a competition event on 17 June 2021:

• to support applicants in developing their application
• to encourage the formulation of consortia, as stream 1 requires private match funding

2. Questions about the competition

If you have questions that aren’t covered in the guidance here, please send them to storage.innovation@beis.gov.uk by 2pm on 7 July 2021. Questions submitted after this deadline may not be answered.

3. Submit proposals

This competition is now closed to applications.

Published 3 June 2021
Last updated 17 September 2021 + show all updates

1. 17 September 2021

   This competition is now closed to applications.

2. 15 June 2021

   Annex 5: Project cost breakdown form added.

3. 3 June 2021

   First published.