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Innovate Ukraine Energy Partnership – Competition Information and Virtual Brokerage

1 June 2023 – 16 August 2023

Virtual Brokerage  Innovate Ukraine Energy Partnership

Innovate Ukraine, a funding competition, has been launched to support and advance energy innovations that will contribute to the recovery and restoration of Ukraine.

Starting from June 2023, this website will host a series of webinars and virtual meetings to explore project opportunities and facilitate introductions between organizations. The goal is to identify and develop energy-related innovations crucial for Ukraine’s recovery.

The webinars and virtual Marketplace aim to foster a comprehensive understanding of Ukraine’s energy challenges and promote equitable partnerships, leading to collaborative applications for the Innovate Ukraine competition.

While the competition officially opens on June 19th, 2023, the collaboration and networking platform is already accessible. This allows prospective applicants to prepare and find potential project partners.

Innovate Ukraine offers up to £10m to support businesses in developing highly innovative and sustainable energy technologies and business models that specifically contribute to Ukraine’s energy system recovery.

The competition is open to both UK and international participants. Please refer to the Eligibility page for further details.

Prospective applicants can gain access to a full brief and the application portal by registering their interest on the website. These resources will only be available to registered individuals and will not be accessible publicly. Registration also enables participants to network freely with other organizations interested in the program. Please note that registration does not obligate any potential participant to submit an application.

For more information on how the virtual networking scheme operates, please visit the Matchmaking page.

Innovate Ukraine Programme: The objective of this competition is to expedite Ukraine’s recovery and ensure a low-carbon, affordable, and secure energy supply for the country.

The funding support aims to accelerate the innovation required to rebuild Ukraine’s energy system, with a focus on immediate energy security and the long-term transition away from hydrocarbons.

Your project can involve the development, testing, or scaling up of innovative technologies or business models.

To be eligible, your project must:

  • Address the specific needs of Ukraine’s energy recovery
  • Be an innovative technology or business model that is low-carbon, affordable, and secure
  • Create energy resilience in the short term or establish access to clean energy in the future

While any technology meeting the above criteria is within scope, priority will be given to projects that strongly address the following themes:

  • Leave no one behind: Technologies and business models that ensure the benefits reach the poorest and most marginalized, including women, individuals with disabilities, and people in humanitarian contexts. This includes supporting the local economy through the localization of new technology production.
  • Smart green grids: This includes main grid-related technologies (supply and demand side technologies) and mini or micro-grids that promote modularity, decentralization, and system resilience. Innovative digital smart grid solutions for energy efficiency and resilience are also included.
  • Grid stability and resilience hardening: Introducing new approaches to manage and mitigate damage and instability caused by cyber and missile attacks, as well as providing physical protection for critical energy infrastructure.
  • Energy storage: Enabling higher penetration of intermittent renewable energy sources on the grid, providing backup power, and improving access in areas that are underserved or poorly served by the grid.
  • Renewable heating strategies: Including the use of heat pumps.
  • Green gases: Developing efficient models for biomethane/hydrogen generation and technologies specifically supporting the adaptation of Ukraine’s existing systems to green gases.
  • Waste-based energy solutions: Utilizing waste materials as fuel and capturing waste heat from industrial processes or heat-emitting sectors such as data centers.
  • Bio-energy: Utilizing energy crops like miscanthus to improve soil quality damaged by war and as a low-carbon fuel source for local energy systems.
  • Next-generation solar technologies and business models: Enabling new, locally manufacturable, cost-effective alternatives.
  • Green building materials: Local production of materials and the development of green construction techniques.

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