Dates:
Stage 1 Expressions of interest: closure Wednesday 19 March 2025
Stage 2 Appraisal and short-listing of candidate projects: – March to April 2025:.
Stage 3 Due diligence: April to May 2025:
Stage 4 Notification of outcomes and issue of draft grant offers: May to June 2025:
Target commencement for projects: June 2025
Final date for all projects to complete: 31 March 2026
Scope
Businesses with industrial decarbonisation projects at options appraisal, feasibility study, engineering study (FEED) or at deployment stage
Specific Themes
-reducing industrial emissions to tackle the climate emergency
-growing the economy by attracting private investment
-sustaining and creating jobs
-creating more competitive and sustainable businesses
Eligibility
- Projects must be applicable to industrial manufacturing, production or processing sites, or data centres, within Scotland but we want to widen the opportunity to projects which connect outside a specific industrial site. More information on Standard Industrial Classification (SIC), Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) and the scale and type of projects which could be supported is available through the agencies.
- Success will depend on knowledge of appropriate projects, therefore, the fund is streamlined to accelerate the rapid identification of projects which could deliver by the end of financial year 2025 to 2026. We are working with Scotland’s enterprise agencies to capture essential project information in a consistent format to enable appraisal. Two key criteria will focus on carbon emissions reductions (tonnes of CO2e saved, per year) and maximising implementation by March 2026.
Funding Rates
- £34M pot
How PNO can support you
The UK team has a strong track record in securing some of the most competitive national and European grants on behalf of its clients, with a full understanding of how a project should be presented to stand the highest chance of success. Each year in the UK alone, we are responsible for the submission of more than 100 funding applications across all sectors and priority areas. Based on this extensive experience, through careful project selection and using key insight into how a project should be best positioned, we consistently achieve success rates that are more than 5 times the typical success rates for UK national schemes and EU programmes.
For further information or to discuss a project idea please contact PNO Consultants
0161 488 3488 | info.uk@pnoconsultants.com
