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The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), in collaboration with Innovate UK, has today opened the new Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (IETF) IETF Phase 1: Spring 2021 competition window and would like to invite you to join our competition briefing webinar on Thursday 11 March.

Businesses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland can now bid for up to £40 million in grant funding through the new competition window, which is open for applications from today until Wednesday 14 July.

The competition will provide grant funding towards the costs of:

• Deployment of mature energy efficiency technologies that improve industrial process energy efficiency and reduce energy demand.
• Feasibility and engineering studies for projects deploying mature energy efficiency technologies or deep decarbonisation technologies.

 IETF Phase 1: Spring 2021 stakeholder event

We invite you to join our online IETF Phase 1: Spring 2021 briefing webinar on Thursday 11 March.

The briefing event will include an opportunity to:

• Hear about the scope of the competitions in more detail
• Eligibility criteria
• How to make an application for funding
• IETF support and information services available for businesses
• Network online and develop partnerships for the competition
• Speak with BEIS and Innovate UK online for one-to-one discussions about the competition.

Benefits of joining the webinar:

The webinar will benefit a number of organisations and professionals including:

• Manufacturing companies
• Data centres
• Energy efficiency and decarbonisation innovators and professionals interested in collaborating on a project

To register for the webinar, please visit our registration site.

 To find out more about the £40 million IETF Phase 1: Spring 2021 competition, view the applicant guidance and make an application for funding, please visit our competition page.