Local Industrial Decarbonisation Plans competition

Competition will provides £5 million for dispersed industrial clusters to develop decarbonisation plans.

Innovate UK is working with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) to invest up to £5 million in place-based industrial decarbonisation plans.

The Local Industrial Decarbonisation Plans Competition (LIDP) provides support for industrial manufacturers, not located within the UK’s existing industrial clusters, to develop plans to reduce their emissions and avoid carbon leakage.

The competitive grant funding will support the advancement of place-based industrial decarbonisation plans. This will involve collaboration between closely located industrial businesses and other stakeholders, as well as upskilling their capabilities ahead of introducing low-emission technologies.

The objectives of this competition are as to:

• support the development of credible, context-sensitive, strategic plans for decarbonising local industrial clusters
• increase organisational collaboration and strengthen decarbonisation planning skills, capacity and capability in local industrial clusters
• gather evidence to inform decarbonisation of other local industrial clusters and dispersed sites

Through use of the fund organisations can come together to form local clusters, which can be made up of closely located industrial businesses and other stakeholders, with the aim to establish a detailed, implementable plan for decarbonisation of their cluster.

This should include identification of a pipeline of decarbonisation projects that can be taken forward by the cluster towards deployment, including common decarbonisation infrastructure.

Local clusters must also provide evidence of how organisational structures will be established with the technical capabilities and coordinated capacity to drive implementation of the plan.

Find out more about LIDP and how to apply.

First published 15 May 2023