Local Industrial Decarbonisation Plans – Funding Competition
The Local Industrial Decarbonisation Plans (LIDP) competition offers grant funding to support the development of strategic decarbonisation plans for industrial manufacturers located in dispersed sites to kickstart their journey towards a low carbon future.
About the competition
UK manufacturing industries from across a range of sectors, including metals and minerals, chemicals, food and drink, paper and pulp, ceramics, glass, oil refineries and less energy intensive manufacturing, combine high end technology and highly skilled workers to make products that are traded all over the world. Without the UK manufacturing industry, there would be no cars, no medicines, no food, or the packaging it goes in. But industrial businesses also emitted 78 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2019. About half of these emissions are concentrated in the UK’s largest industrial clusters by carbon dioxide emissions. These are: Humberside, Teesside, Grangemouth, the North West, South Wales, Southampton and Black Country. The other half of industrial emissions are produced by dispersed industrial sites i.e., all industrial sites not within one of the UK’s largest industrial clusters.
The government wants to support dispersed sites in developing strategic plans that prepares industry for the green industrial transition, and ultimately, a low carbon future. This is the objective of the £5m Local Industrial Decarbonisation Plans (LIDP) competition.
The £5 million LIDP competition will support dispersed industrial sites and other public, private and third sector stakeholders to develop strategic plans that plot a route to decarbonising industry in their area. One of the many benefits of place-based decarbonisation planning is that it enables organisations to learn together, share knowledge, build relationships, and reduce the costs and risks associated with solo decarbonisation projects. This is an approach that has been demonstrated in large-scale industrial clusters like Teesside and we now want to apply it to concentrations of industry outside the main clusters in places we are calling local clusters.
Successful projects will have a vision for the future of industry in their area that embraces the challenges and opportunities of decarbonisation. LIDPs will develop cutting edge solutions supported by technical experts in the field and provide an inspirational blueprint to work towards, one which is joined up, strategic, and ready for a greener future.
Eligibility
The competition will be open to collaborative local cluster project teams formed of industrial manufacturers and other key stakeholders, such as local authorities and Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs), who will be able to apply for part of the £5 million funding. The application window will open in the summer of 2023. More detailed information regarding eligibility will be made available on this page in due course.