Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will work with the Faraday Battery Challenge to invest up to £1.5 million in innovation scale-up projects.

The aims of this competition are to:

  • support an SME’s research and development for the scale-up of battery technologies within the UK;
  • support an SME to access the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC) and demonstrate technologies at suitable scales to customers;
  • increase engagement with UKBIC;
  • move UK battery innovations from technological potential towards commercial capability; and
  • develop and secure material and manufacturing supply chains for battery technologies in the UK.

The competition closes at 11am on 4 April 2023.

See: Competition overview – UK Battery Industrialisation Centre SME Credit Round 1 – Innovation Funding Service (apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk)