The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) recently opened the new Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (IETF) Phase 2: Autumn 2022 competition.

Businesses in Northern Ireland can now bid for a share of up to £70 million in grant funding from 10 October 2022 to 13 January 2023. This fund is specifically targeted at businesses working in manufacturing, quarrying, recycling, and data centre sectors.

On Wednesday 02 November we will be hosting a webinar specifically for Northern Ireland businesses with Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) and BEIS, to support you with the application process for IETF Phase 2: Autumn 2022 competition.

This webinar has been designed specifically for Northern Ireland businesses and will cover:
• Scope of the competition
• Eligibility criteria
• How to apply for funding
• The IETF support and information services available

There will also be an opportunity to ask the experts questions around potential bids.

Additional Information

Projects supported are:
• Studies - feasibility and engineering studies to enable companies to investigate identified energy efficiency and decarbonisation projects prior to making an investment decision
• Energy efficiency - deployment of technologies to reduce industrial energy consumption
• Deep decarbonisation - deployment of technologies to achieve industrial emissions savings

This fund is to support eligible Northern Ireland businesses from the sectors below, to help improve the energy efficiency or reduce emissions around those industrial processes.

Eligible industrial processes:
• Mining and quarrying
• Manufacturing
• Recovery and recycling of materials
• Data centre

For more information about the funding and process, please visit -
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/industrial-energy-transformation-fund-ietf-phase-2-autumn-2022