Consumer Led Flexibility for the Clean Energy Superpower Mission

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £25 million for pre-commercialisation projects. This funding is from the UKRI R&D Missions Accelerator Programme through the Clean Energy Superpower Mission.

In Short

Project Duration Project Duration

4 - 30 months

Total Budget Total Budget

£100,000 - £3 million

Application Deadline Application Deadline

26 August 2026

Themes

Your project must focus on one or more of the key themes. You can focus on multiple themes within the same strand or across both strands. The expectation is that any strand 2 project will need to draw on elements of strand 1 themes in the approach in order to address barriers and align with system needs.

1. Multi-market co-optimisation and locational pricing

2. Portfolio reliability and risk transfer

3. Confidence and AI forecasting

4. Feeder level flexibility and resilience

5. Electric Vehicle smart charging and Vehicle to everything (V2X)

6. Heat flexibility with comfort guarantees

7. Open datasets for AI

8. Low income households in constrained areas

9. Industrial and commercial anchor loads

10. Residential scaling
You must review the attached document which provides specific details against the key themes within this competition:

Eligibility

Your project must: have a total grant funding request of between £100,000 and £3 million, depending on which research category you are applying through; last between 4 and 30 months; start by 1 January 2027; end by 30 June 2029

Any organisation receiving funding must carry out its project work in the UK, intend to exploit the results in the UK, and spend most of the funding within the UK.

Our Approach

The UK team has a strong track record in securing some of the most competitive national and European grants on behalf of its clients, with a full understanding of how a project should be presented to stand the highest chance of success. Each year in the UK alone, we are responsible for the submission of more than 100 funding applications across all sectors and priority areas. Based on this extensive experience, through careful project selection and using key insight into how a project should be best positioned, we consistently achieve success rates that are more than 5 times the typical success rates for UK national schemes and EU programmes.

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