Innovate Ukraine Programme Scope
The aim of this competition is to accelerate Ukraine’s recovery and ensure the country’s energy supply is low-carbon, affordable and secure.
It focuses on creating immediate energy security for Ukraine and helping its long term ambitions to transition away from hydrocarbons.
Your project can support the development, testing or scale up of innovative technologies or business models.
Your project must do all 3 of the following:
- focus on the specific needs of Ukraine’s energy recovery.
- be an innovative technology or business model that is low-carbon, affordable and secure.
- create energy resilience to attacks in the short term or build access to clean energy in the future.
While any technology which meets the above criteria is in scope, priority will be given to projects which strongly address the following themes:
- Leave no one behind: technologies and business models that ensure the benefits reach the poorest and most marginalised, including women, those with disabilities, and people in humanitarian contexts, supporting the local economy by localisation of production of new technologies
- Smart green grids: including main grid-related technologies (supply and demand side technologies) and mini or micro-grids to support modularity, decentralisation and system resilience. This could include innovative digital smart grid solutions for energy efficiency and resilience.
- Grid stability and resilience hardening: new approaches which can help manage and mitigate the damage and instability caused by cyber and missile attacks or provide physical protection to critical energy infrastructure.
- Energy storage: enabling higher intermittent renewable energy penetrations on the grid providing backup power, and improving access in areas unserved, or poorly served, by the grid
- Renewable heating strategies: including heat pumps
- Green gases: developing efficient models for biomethane or hydrogen generation and technologies specifically supporting the adaptation of Ukraine’s existing systems to green gases
- Waste-based energy solutions: the use of waste materials as fuel and the utilisation of waste heat from industrial processes or heat-emitting sectors, for example data centres
- Bio-energy: including the use of energy crops, for example miscanthus, to improve the quality of soils damaged by war and to act as a low-carbon fuel source for local energy systems
- Next-generation solar technologies and business models: enabling new, locally manufacturable, cost-effective alternatives
- Green building materials: local production of materials and development of green construction techniques, including, super-insulation, green concrete and other energy-efficient and cost-effective materials for reconstruction
- Portable units for the generation and storage of low carbon energy: tailored specifically to the Ukrainian context and able to replace fossil generators as needed
- High-voltage autotransformers: improving the local availability of hard-to-produce and other specialist electricity distribution equipment
- Low-energy inclusive appliances: improving the efficiency, performance, availability, and affordability of end use domestic and productive appliances adapted to Ukraine’s needs
- Offshore wind deployment: realising the potential for deployment in Ukraine
Further Details
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