Industrial Energy Efficiency Accelerator (IEEA)

Competition Application FormInstructions:

Completed application forms and any supporting evidence should be submitted electronically via PDF or Word copy and sent to: ieea@carbontrust.com. Please visit the competition page for full eligibility criteria, programme scope, process and timeline, guidance on finding a partner, and information on how to apply. Successful applications will come from project proposals that:

a) Demonstrate potential for significant energy (and CO2) savings, from sector and/or cross-sector replicability;

b) Demonstrate potential to achieve technology commercialisation relatively quickly;

c) Have a project team with the required skills and experience to deliver the project plan;

d) Represent value for money, with clearly identified sources of match-funding.

Scoring criteria:

Category WeightingProject and technical overview 20%Potential impact 20%Commercialisation prospects 20%Project design and deliverability 20%Project costs and finance 20%

Application form:

Eligibility criteria check

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Criteria Applicant Comments

☐ The technology to be demonstrated is an eligible energy efficiency solution targeted at the UK manufacturing sector (see www.carbontrust.com/ieea for eligible project types)

☐ A demonstration site has been secured in the UK

☐ The BEIS grant requested by each partner is compliant with State Aid rules

☐ All partners have secured sufficient matched funding

☐ The technology is not commercial or is unproven within the given sector

☐ Confirmation of acceptance of BEIS terms and conditions

Summary of key project information

Date of application Click here to enter a date.

Project title

Lead applicant company

Sector

Project/Technology Innovation(not more than one line of the technology application)

Consortium details [**]

Please provide details of companies in the consortium.

Company name and role of authorised signatoryAddress of signatory

Role in project

Type of participant Please select from drop down list

Other:

[**]Please copy and paste the table above for each consortium member

Status of co-funding

Total project cost (£)

Total grant sought (£ and %)

Please specify whether you have received public funding to develop and/or demonstrate this technology in the past, specifying from whom and the amount receivedPlease specify whether you are applying for any other non-IEEA sources of public funding for this particular project

Disclosure of information: The information that you provide in this application form will be treated in the strictest confidence and will only be used in the evaluation of the application for grant funding under the IEEA. If we receive a request for information under the access to information regimes (these are primarily the Freedom of

Information Act 2000 (FOIA), the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004) we may have to disclose certain details.

1.1 Project Aims and Objectives. Explain the main aims and objectives of your demonstration project. Introduce: (i) what will be done during the project; (ii) the attributes that make your technology/process innovative and how this demonstration project will evidence them; (iii) any criteria you will use to assess project success (the table below may help).

Table 1: Project Success Criteria Attribute to Demonstrate Current Benchmark Success Criterion E.g. New energy efficient grinding in cement production

No grinders of this type are currently deployed in the sector

Demonstrating 10% reduction in energy consumption per unit output in grinding process

1.2 Technical Overview. Please describe: (i) the basic underlying principles of your new technology/process; (ii) how it will reduce energy consumption in target industry sector(s); (iii) how your solution improves upon any existing technology/process; (iv) any technical assumptions

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and their justification; (v) any supplementary evidence or data that the technology/process works (e.g. laboratory results or field trials, details of performance modelling, external validation of the technology and/or test results). If transferring technology from other industries, note any required adaptation. Please use clear diagrams and photos where applicable.

1.3 Technology Readiness Level (TRL). Please describe: (i) the TRL of your technology/process (examples of TRL are 1 = concept, 5 = proven at laboratory scale, 9 = commercial); (ii) the TRL that the demonstration project is intended to achieve. An overview of TRLs in relation to the IEEA programme can be found here. If available, please provide supplementary evidence / data of the technology TRL as an attachment to this application.

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2.1 Description and approximate size of target market(s). Briefly explain: (i) which industrial processes and sector(s) this technology may be applied to; (ii) barriers to deploying the technology/process in the target sector(s); (iii) why the technology/process option has not been deployed to date; (iv) the proportion (%) of your target sector(s) that might realistically implement the technology/process change over the next 10 years (stating any market size estimates). To help corroborate the size of your target market(s), please include the number of relevant industrial sites in the UK (if known).

2.2 Please state how much energy your technology / process change will save annually (i) per industrial process and (ii) per site. Baseline and energy savings values for thermal and electrical

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energy consumption should be stated, including percentage changes. Units of kWh per process and kWh per site should be used. A representative industrial process and site should be considered in these calculations, rather than any specific, non-representative site.

Process Site Sector (if known)Baseline Fuel* Consumption (kWh)Fuel Saving (kWh)

Fuel Saving (%)

Baseline electricity Energy Consumption (kWh)Electricity Energy Saving (kWh)

Electricity Energy Saving (%)

*Fuel can include gas, coal, oil, biomass, etc.

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3.1 Please give an overview of the intended business model for commercialising your technology and/or process. This should include a description of: (i) customers and partners (if any); (ii) expected return on investment (with relevant evidence); (iii) route to market / go-to-market strategies (how will you acquire customers / sell product); (iv) growth strategy and plans (ability to scale up technology once demonstrated).

3.2 What Intellectual Property (IP) do you have (if any)? Do you already have patents for the technology and/or process? Identify any intellectual property that will be generated by your technology/process, who will own this IP and how it will be protected.

3.3 Please describe any investor interest in your technology including any sources of funding already secured. Please note we cannot fund projects which are already publically funded.

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3.4 Please indicate any incubation support you are likely to require. Within this programme it is planned to provide incubation support to Technology Developers to assist with the commercialisation and market uptake of your technology. Please state whether this is likely to be valuable, and what forms of support may be most useful e.g. finance, IP, management, sales etc.

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4.1a Please outline the suggested work packages for this project. Each work package must have an aim, a list of tasks indicating which partner is responsible for each task and specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timely (SMART) deliverables. Typical deliverables could include: receipts for key items of equipment, third party accreditation such as a safety certificate, other evidence of work done such as photos, plans or test reports. It should be clear how the deliverables for each task link to the project objectives.

4.1b Please outline the suggested milestones for this project. Project milestones are key dates in the project schedule when specific deliverables will be met and grant payments assessed. Typically projects are structured so that grant payments are made when pre-defined milestones are met. We expect one progress report for each milestone. Grant payments will be released once milestone reports are approved.

Milestone number

Deliverables Associated with Reaching Milestone

Associated Work Packages

Milestone Completion date

4.1c Project Gantt chart. The project start date should normally be within three months of receipt of

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the grant offer. A project Gantt chart must be provided. An example is provided below. Shaded cells indicate the length of each work package and diamonds represent milestones (and associated deliverables). Please indicate stage gates; these help to de-risk the later stages of grant funding and should be set at critical milestones in the programme that separate different phases of work. Stage gates should have clear, quantified success criteria to allow an informed decision to be taken on whether to proceed with the project beyond the stage gate.

Table 4: Project Gantt chart example Work Package Associated

TasksTimescale (Months from project start)

0 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24

1 1.1, 1.2

2 2.1, 2.2

3 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4

Stage gate 1 (if applicable)

4 4.1, 4.2

5 5.1, 5.2, 5.3

4.2 Overview of project team. List all parties involved in the project and state their roles. For each partner, describe their experience, skills and qualifications, and explain how these will help to

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ensure the project is completed successfully. Please include CVs in the appendix and also attach Letters of Support from your project partners.

4.3 Existing consortium experience with technology demonstration and innovation projects. Please outline any consortium member’s relevant experience delivering projects that have developed a new and novel technology offering.

4.4 Risk Assessment. All demonstration projects involve a level of risk. We want to know that you have identified these risks and have, as far as possible, put in place procedures to ensure they are managed effectively. Please identify the likely risks to project success in terms of: (i) timescale; (ii) budget; and, (iii) outcomes. Explain how you plan to manage these risks. The following table may provide a useful starting point. Do not delete rows, but rather mark “NA” if not applicable. If you want to add other risks add them below the last row

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Table 2: Risk Assessment Risk and its potential effect Likelihood of

occurrenceImpact of the risk

Mitigation steps proposed

Technical risks (there may be several)

Resource issues (e.g. availability of equipment)

Collaborators (e.g. failure of partners)

Economic and market factors (e.g. changes in cost of equipment)

Legislative/regulatory changes

Human resources (e.g. loss or disability of key personnel)

Competition (e.g. technology substitution)

IP risk (challenges)

Planning and permitting

Commercial considerations

Process integration

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5.1 Detailed breakdown of eligible project costs (£). Please complete the attached Finance Sheet. Summarise these into the table below for each of the organisations that is incurring cost. . Staff costs should be worked out on a day rate multiplied by the number of working days (including eligible overheads). Capital items are any items above £1,000 per unit cost. Details of materials and consumables should be available if further clarification is requested. Other includes costs such as software licences but must not include unallocated costs. Please add new rows in for additional costs that do not align with the listed categories below.

Table 5: Project Cost BreakdownOrganisation A [£k] Organisation B [£k] Organisation C [£k]

Staff time

Site preparation

T&S

Capital items and equipment

Contractual research

Subcontracts

Overheads

Materials and consumables

Other

[ADD ANY ADDITIONAL COSTS HERE]

[ADD ANY ADDITIONAL COSTS HERE]

TOTAL

5.2 Finance Summary Table. Use this table to show a summary of how the total project will be financed, including details on the source of each organisation’s contribution (e.g. own funds, loan, VC investment, other grants) and the nature of the contribution (e.g. cash, in-kind, secured, pending x). A supporting detailed spreadsheet of costs should be provided. An example sheet is attached. Typically the total

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contribution should fall in the range £150,000 to £750,000.

Table 7: Summary of project finance

Organisation

Total eligible cost incurred by

organisation

[£]

Proposed BEIS grant

[£ and %]

Organisation’s own contribution

[£ and %]

Source of organisation's contribution

Nature of organisation's contribution

Total

Completed applications should be sent (along with accompanying documents) to IEEA@carbontrust.com

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