Overview

ORE Catapult will provide a total of £1.5million to between 3 and 5 UK businesses developing new and innovative technologies which are being developed for the benefit of the Floating Offshore Wind Supply Chain Industry. ORE Catapult has worked with the Innovate UK and the Advanced Research Project Agency Energy (ARPA-E) to identify collaboration opportunities with Atlantis Phase 2 Awardees:

• National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

• University of Maine (UoM)

Scope

The aim of this competition is to aid UK businesses to develop innovative technologies and provide opportunities for international collaboration and export opportunities. Your proposal must address one of the following areas of interest for our US partners and the UK Floating Offshore Wind Industry:

• Advanced Controls and Conditional Health Monitoring

• Novel Mooring Line Design, Configuration and Materials

• Low Carbon Concrete Manufacturing and Assembly for Concrete Floating Foundations

• Innovative Dynamic Cable Designs

For the purposes of this funding call Innovation can be defined as a new or improved product or process (or combination thereof) that differs from the previous products or processes and that has not been made available to potential users (product) or brought into use (process).

Collaboration

ORE Catapult expects all applicants of the grant funding competition to work collaboratively, in some capacity, with one of the following US Enterprises:

• National Renewable Energy Laboratory – USFLOWT 10 Project Team

• University of Maine – VolturnUS+

The above partners will not be treated as Project Partners or receive any funding from ORE Catapult or Innovate UK.

Projects proposed with any other US organisation/Entity shall not be considered for this funding call.

Eligibility

Your Project must:

• Have a total grant funding request between £300,000 and £500,000

• Start by the 1st of June 2024

• End by 31st of December 2025

• Carry out the majority of the activities from within the UK.

• Intend to exploit the results of the project from or in the UK.

To apply for a direct grant from this competition, your organisation must be a UK registered business of any size. Applications from academic institutions, charities, not for profits, public sector organisation or a research and technology organisation (RTO) will not be accepted.

Non-funded partners:

Your project can include partners that do not receive any of this competition’s funding, for example non-UK businesses. Their costs will count towards the total project costs. This does not include the US partners outlined above. It could, for example, include UK Floating Offshore Wind Project Developers.

Subcontractors:

Subcontractors are allowed in this competition. Subcontractors can be from anywhere in the UK and you must select them through your usual procurement process. You can use subcontractors from overseas but must make the case in your application as to why you could not use suppliers from the UK.

You must provide a detailed rationale, evidence of the potential UK contractors you approached and the reasons why they were unable to work with you. We will not accept a cheaper cost as a sufficient reason to use an overseas subcontractor.

All subcontractor costs must be justified and the total subcontractor budget must not exceed more than 35% of the total project cost.

Number of Applications:

You may only submit one application per organisation. Where an organisation submits 2 applications both will be rejected.