Competition for Funding

As announced in the Budget 2009, the Government has allocated funding for stimulating low carbon technologies in the UK. As part of this package, the Department of Energy and Climate Change[1] has allocated a total indicative budget of £7.2m for capital funding for a Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Demonstration programme, which will be delivered by the Technology Strategy Board.

The programme will fill a current gap in the innovation chain, relating to scale-up issues and accelerate deployment of this low carbon technology. The demonstration projects would build on the Technology Strategy Board and Carbon Trust existing portfolio of ‘near-to-demonstration' projects and on the recent Technology Strategy Board Fuel cells and Hydrogen technologies competition for funding.

The programme will cover transport and stationary market applications and enable full scale up demonstration projects that have already successfully undertaken research, development and prototyping projects, including smaller scale demonstration.

Key dates

[1] The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) brings together much of the Climate Change Group, previously housed within the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), with the Energy Group from the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR, now the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).