Horizon Europe – Critical technologies for ocean energy farms

Call focus

• Increasing performance of ocean energy technologies, with specific focus on sustainability, operation and maintenance.
• Improving knowledge on operating ocean energy devices, their availability, maintainability and survivability.
• Reducing the levelised cost of electricity (LCOE) of future technologies.

Activities expected to achieve TRL 5 by the end of the project.

Total budget: €8,000,000
Funding per project: €4,000,000
Deadline for proposals: 4 February 2025

For full details, see: EU Funding & Tenders Portal – Critical technologies for the future ocean energy farms (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-04)

Horizon Europe – Next generation synthetic fuel technologies

Call focus

• Increasing the availability of disruptive emerging synthetic renewable fuel technologies.
• Accelerating the readiness of cost-effective and highly performing future technologies of synthetic renewable fuels for all economy sectors
• Reinforcing the European scientific basis and technology export potential for synthetic renewable fuel technologies.

Activities expected to achieve TRL 3-4 by the end of the project.

Total budget: €12,000,000
Funding per project: €4,000,000
Deadline for proposals: 4 February 2025

For full details, see: EU Funding & Tenders Portal - Development of next generation synthetic renewable fuel technologies (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-02)

Horizon Europe – Demonstrations of innovative floating wind concepts

Call focus

• Increasing knowledge about design, construction, assembly and operation/maintenance of floating wind farms.
• Improving overall constructability, reliability, installability, operability and maintainability of floating wind farms.
• Demonstrating efficient, low-cost and sustainable emerging technologies for floating wind turbines, therefore reducing LCOE.
• Reinforcing European offshore wind turbine value chain and skills.
• Capturing data for future optimisation of industry scale commissioning of the floater, mooring and anchor system.

Activities expected to achieve TRL 7-8 by the end of the project.

Total budget: €30,000,000
Funding per project: €15,000,000
Deadline for proposals: 4 February 2025

For full details, see: EU Funding & Tenders Portal - Demonstrations of innovative floating wind concepts (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-09)

Horizon Europe – CCU for the production of fuels

Call focus

• Developing energy-efficient, economically and environmentally viable CO2 conversion technologies.
• Energy storage techniques and displacement of fossil fuels that allow for upscaling abilities.
• Innovative and new energy storage techniques.

Activities expected to achieve TRL 6-7 by the end of the project.

Total budget: €15,000,000
Funding per project: €7,000,000
Deadline for proposals: 4 February 2025

For full details, see: EU Funding & Tenders Portal - CCU for the production of fuels (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-11)

UK PACT Thailand – Green finance, carbon pricing and disclosures

Call focus

• Collaborations between UK based for-profit and not-for-profit organisations.
• Policy and engagement opportunities that enhance green finance, carbon pricing and disclosures in Thailand.

Duration: Projects should last up to 24 months
Funding per project: £500,000 per year
Deadline for proposals: 2 October 2024

For full details, see: UK PACT Thailand – Green finance, carbon pricing and disclosures

UK PACT South Africa– Climate strategy and clean energy

Call focus

• Collaborations between UK based for-profit and not-for-profit organisations.
• Driving just transition through technical assistance for increased renewable energy uptake, sustainable transport and green finance initiatives.

Deadline for proposals: 23 October 2024

For full details, see: UK PACT South Africa– Climate strategy and clean energy

Innovate UK – Smart Grants

Call focus

• Game-changing and commercially viable R&D innovations that can significantly impact the UK economy.

Funding: UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £25 million
Award: Costs between £100,000 – £500,000 for 6–18-month projects, £100,000 – £1 million for 19–24-month projects.
Deadline for proposals: 23 October 2024

For full details, see: Innovate UK – Smart Grants

EUROGIA2030 – Low carbon technologies R&D solutions

Eurogia2030 is on the front line in the energy field to achieve carbon neutrality goals. Through Low Carbon Technologies R&D solutions, Eurogia aims to contribute to a sustainable environment and reduce climate change.

Call focus

• Carbon-free energy supply.
• Green mobility and Smart cities.
• Smarter housings and constructions.
• Bio resources and environment.

Total budget: £5,000,000
Award: varied by business size, 80% of FeC for academic institutions, between 70-50% for industrial partners.
Deadline for proposals: 15 November 2024

For full details, see: EUROGIA2030 – Low carbon technologies R&D solutions

Clean Energy Transition Partnerships

The CETPartnership Joint Call 2024 is the co-funded call under the CETPartnership. To cover different topics and RDI types, the Call is structured into Call Modules, aimed at different energy technologies and/or systems as well as both research and innovation oriented approaches on different Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs), complementing and completing each other. There are 10 proposed call modules and we are actively seeking partners to join a Europe wide consortium for the funding.

Call modules

• Data spaces and interoperability
• Energy system flexibility: renewables production, storage and system integration
• Advanced renewable energy technologies for power production
• Carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS)
• Hydrogen and renewable fuels
• Heating and cooling technologies
• Geothermal energy technologies
• Integrated regional energy systems
• Integrated industrial energy systems
• Clean energy integration in the built environment

Deadline for pre-proposal submission (stage 1): 21 November 2024

For full details, see: Clean Energy Transition Partnerships

UK – Germany bilateral collaborative R&D Round 4

The aim of this competition is to enhance UK and German collaborations and capabilities in the emerging fields of technology in our society. This is to develop and deliver new innovations and applications of the technologies across a broad range of sectors. Projects must demonstrate a clear game changing or disruptive innovation, leading to new processes and a strong deliverable business proposal.

Call focus

• Quantum
• AI
• Semiconductor applications
• Engineering biology
• Green technologies including hydrogen and batteries

Award: UK Partners up to £500,000 per project.
Deadline for proposals: 6 December 2024

For full details, see: UK – Germany bilateral collaborative R&D Round 4

NERC – Pushing the frontiers of environmental research

This funding opportunity supports researchers’ curiosity and imagination to enable discoveries that unlock new knowledge with a degree of adventure previously unrealised. Proposals must fit the NERC’s own research areas.
EMEC would be interested in co-leading or supporting opportunities that reflect our efforts in environmental monitoring, environmental research and ecosystem impacts from marine renewable energy.

Award: £950,000 maximum
Deadline for proposals: 21 January 2025

For full details, see: NERC – Pushing the frontiers of environmental research

NERC – Value of Marine Artificial Structures

Apply for funding to enhance understanding of the ecological, economic and social value of marine artificial structures’ natural capital to inform decision making and policy solutions for management for all life stages. Applicants must be UK research organisations eligible for NERC funding.

Award: £5,810,000, 80% FeC
Deadline for proposals: 31 October 2024

For full details, see: Value of Marine Artificial Structures (ValMAS)

Launchpad – marine and maritime in the Great South West

The aim of this competition is to support outstanding innovation projects led by businesses. Your business must be growing innovation activities in the marine and maritime cluster in the Great South West. For this competition, the Great South West consists of Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, Devon, Somerset and Dorset.

Call focus

• Marine autonomy.
• Clean maritime.
• Digital ocean technologies.

Award: projects between £150,000 and £750,000.
Deadline for proposals: 16 October 2024

For full details, see: Launchpad – marine and maritime in the Great South West – R2 CR&D

HI-ACT – Secondment Call

Secondment funding for researchers or industry partners to co-create research and develop new skills, to help to accelerate research into systems integration of hydrogen for the future net-zero energy transition through co-creation. Award:

Award: up to £30,000 per year to fund a secondee
Deadline for proposals: N/A – open call.

US DOE – Oceans of Opportunity – US wave energy open water testing

Call focus

• Reduce risks for deployments, increasing the potential for commercial adoption through longer-duration demonstrations (expected to last nearly two years), and offer additional benefits to help quickly advance WECs.
• Identify and mature high-potential WEC technologies, reduce financial risks for developers and incentivise investors.
• Progress technologies at smaller scales while developing toward utility scale.
• Increase learning for installation, operations, and maintenance.

Award: Individual awards may vary between $2.41 million and $25.313 million.
Deadline for concept paper: 25 October 2024

For full details, see: US DOE – Oceans of Opportunity – US wave energy open water testing

RISEnergy – Transnational Access Call

Coming soon – the opportunity to apply for funding for transnational access to RISEnergy research infrastructure. The RISEnergy project is aimed at enabling transnational access to testing facilities across 19 European and 3 non-European countries. Research infrastructure included covers PV, CSP/STE, hydrogen, biofuels, wind energy, ocean energy, integrated grids and energy storage.

Funded by Horizon Europe R&I programme, this call enables academic and industry researchers’ free access to testing facilities through grant funding. EMEC is a member of the eligible research sites and welcome discussion around funding through RISEnergy when the competition opens.

Call opens: TBC

For full details, see: RISEnergy – Transnational Access Call

Ocean Energy Safety Institute

The Ocean Energy Safety Institute (OESI) has published a comprehensive request for proposals (RFP) opening funding opportunities for research pathways across three application areas: oil and gas, wind energy, and marine energy, as identified in its 2024 Annual Plan. OESI anticipates awarding up to $16 million to foster enhanced safety protocols, improved technologies, and new insights into risk management. This is an opportunity open to US entities but EMEC are interested in a potential partnership to help develop best practice safety solutions across the marine renewable energy sector.

Award: between $50,000 and $500,000
Deadline for proposals: 18 October 2024

For full details, see: Ocean Energy Safety Institute – request for proposals