Funding Type: Procurement

Project Size: Projects can range between £500,000 and £1 million, inclusive of VAT.

Project Goals:

• Demonstrate capability, applicability, and scalability of integrated renewable alternatives to fossil fuel generators.
• Projects should be safe, flexible, affordable, reliable, low carbon, and scalable.
• They must be implemented in an ODA eligible country within 6 months from the start date.
• Targeted uses include commercial, domestic, public sector, or humanitarian scenarios where fossil fuel generators are the primary or backup electricity source.
• Solutions should include energy storage capabilities and utilise local supply chains.

Eligible Countries: Projects must be installed in ODA eligible countries, which include various nations across Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Indo-Pacific ASEAN, and Pacific Islands.

Portfolio Approach:

• Aiming for a diverse range of projects across different organisations, technologies, and regions.

Research Categories:

• Prototype development and evaluation, including prototyping, demonstrating, piloting, testing, and validation in real-life conditions.

Exclusions:

• Projects that are not original, out of scope, or duplicate existing work.
• Those covered by existing commercial agreements.
• Projects not contributing to energy affordability, security, and reduced carbon emissions.
• Non-ODA compliant projects or those that do not consider Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI).

• Improvements to fossil fuel generators, combustion technologies, or solutions inflexible to varied use.
• Large scale infrastructure projects are also excluded.