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The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has announced the first tranche of winners from the Industrial Energy Transformation Fund’s (IETF) Phase 1: Summer 2020 competition window.

There are 14 winners in the first tranche worth £16.5 million in IETF funding for projects costs totalling £48.7 million, subject to contracts being signed.

The winners are from both the Phase 1 Energy Efficiency Deployment competition and Studies competition. The new projects will help the organisations to develop new technologies and processes that will help cut their emissions, while reducing their energy bills.

The projects represent a good spread across geographical regions, sectors, technologies, and size of companies. Project locations span England and Wales. Regions in England receiving funding include the West Midlands, North East, Yorkshire and the Humber. Manufacturing sectors include food and drink, steel, paper and glass.

The full list of projects and winners receiving the £16.5 million in IETF funding can be seen here.

The second, and final, tranche of winners from last year’s competition window will be announced later this year.

A number of the £16.5 million Phase 1 competition winners will be doing presentations on their successful projects at our IETF stakeholder briefing event on Tuesday 8 June 2021.

 IETF Phase 1: Spring 2021 stakeholder event

We invite you to join our online IETF Phase 1: Spring 2021 briefing webinar on Tuesday 8 June 2021.

The briefing event will include an opportunity to:

• Hear about the scope of the competitions in more detail
• Hear from industrial site owners who were funded in Phase 1
• Eligibility criteria
• How to make an application for funding
• IETF support and information services available for businesses
• Network online and develop partnerships for the competitions
• 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 help potential applicants to find suitable partners for the competition, we have launched the IETF networking platform. BEIS and Innovate UK will be offering one-to-one confidential discussions via the networking platform on the day of the briefing event and you can book meetings with them through the IETF networking platform. To register, please visit https://ietf-spring.meeting-mojo.com

 To find out more about the current £40 million IETF Phase 1: Spring 2021 competition, which runs until 14 July 2021,view the applicant guidance and make an application for funding, please visit our competition page.

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