Hydrogen Innovation Initiative Demonstration 2023/24

Tender description

Connected Places Catapult, acting as a partner of the Hydrogen Innovation Initiative, is looking to procure results from a near term demonstration which meets the themes of the vision articulated in the specification and has allocated a budget of up to £50,000 for the procurement and dissemination of these results. In exchange, Connected Places Catapult and HII partners will be entitled to widely disseminate the results from the demonstration activities. This high TRL demonstration must cover 2 or more of: Hydrogen production, hydrogen conversion, hydrogen distribution, hydrogen end use. The demonstration needs to be in the latter stages of planning, with a consortium of funded and suitable partners already engaged. Successful applicants will be required to confirm their proposed demonstration methodology by submitting a report in March 2024 illustrating how the demonstration will be delivered and propose how activities will be disseminated. The demonstration activity and reporting should be complete by November 2024. The demonstration must be taking place in the UK. There will be a requirement for the applicant to deliver an end of project report by November 2024, which HII partners will publish, to help disseminate the learnings from the demonstration to the wider hydrogen supply chain. HII partners would encourage applicants to also articulate any specific requests for further support from HII partners which could support this demonstration (for example, developing material data sets in collaboration with this demonstration). Keywords: Research Consultancy Hydrogen