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ZE-Gen Accelerator Collaboration Building: Nigeria and The Philippines 2023 - 2025
Join the virtual brokerage to find partners for your Innovate UK Ze-Gen application.
From now until the end of March 2025, this website will be available to allow you to search and find potential partners for your projects. This will help to facilitate 1:1 meetings to discuss project opportunities and facilitate introductions between organisations to help provide a solution to clean alternatives to fossil fuel generators.
The ZE-Gen accelerator has the aim of accelerating a just transition away from fossil fuel powered generators to clean energy alternatives with a focus initially in Nigeria and the Philippines.
The ZE-Gen programme is being co-delivered by Innovate UK and the Carbon Trust and is funded by UK aid through the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and Department for Science Innovation and Technology (DSIT). The programme was first launch at COP27 in November 2022 and complements Innovate UK’s highly regarded Energy Catalyst Programme. Whilst Energy Catalyst focusses on clean energy access in general, ZE-Gen has a focus on replacing fossil fuel generators with sustainable, zero emission alternatives. This is being achieved through a range of interventions including grant funding, procurement, and market insights.
The programme is backed by up to £13.5m of UK aid funding, this includes £2m on ZE-Gen Demonstrator fund (24/25 – 25/26) and up to £11m on a technology accelerator grant programme (24/25 – 26/27). Both tranches will have a significant international element to them, with the accelerator being purely focussed on Nigeria and the Philippines.
This b2match will help with building the collaborative relationships needed for phase 2 and phase 3 of the accelerator.
The three phases are:
- Zero emission generators (ZE-Gen) accelerator: phase 1 discover. (this phase) For feasibility studies and consortium building
- Zero emission generators (ZE-Gen) accelerator: phase 2 lift off. For Industrial research for product development and testing of your innovation
- Zero emission generators (ZE-Gen) accelerator: phase 3 flight. For experimental development and will involve demonstrating and validating your innovation in either Nigeria or the Philippines
Details of the competition: Full scope and eligibility can be found by following the links to the Innovate UK competition site.
ZE-Gen Demonstrator competition
ZE-Gen Accelerator phase 1 discover
