Battery Innovation Feasibility Studies: round one | Accelerate UK battery breakthroughs with targeted feasibility grants

Battery Innovation Feasibility Studies round one - Grant Application

Programme:Innovate UK

Awards:£70k-£500k

Geographical Scope:national

Beneficiaries:private

Key Features:UK businesses can apply for collaborative feasibility funding to test battery concepts for electrification, generating the evidence needed to move fast toward demonstration and commercialisation.

Key information at a glance

Funder: Innovate UK
Funding type: Grant
Total pot: Up to £20,000,000
Status: Open
Opens: 20 October 2025, 9:30am UK time
Closes: 17 December 2025, 11:30am UK time
Award size per project: £500,000 to £2,000,000 grant funding request
Project length: 12 to 24 months
Who can lead: UK registered business
Collaboration: Single applicant or collaboration
Apply via: Innovation Funding Service

Eligibility

Lead applicant: a UK registered business
Consortium: must include at least one UK SME as a grant claimant
Partners: may include larger businesses, universities and RTOs as appropriate
Location of work: primarily in the UK, with UK economic benefit
Additional rules: follow Innovate UK collaboration and claiming guidance, including fair cost split and state aid compliance

Deadlines and how to apply

Opens: 23 October 2025, 9:30am UK time
Closes: 17 December 2025, 11:00am UK time
Prepare a concise application that shows scope fit, collaboration compliance, clear milestones, evidence plan, and a realistic cost profile. Build in enough time for internal approvals and letters of support.

Benefits to applicants

Non dilutive funding to prove out early technical and market assumptions
Faster investor and partner engagement through structured feasibility evidence
Supply chain access across UK battery materials, cell and pack manufacturing
Momentum toward larger R&D phases and commercial pilots

Scope - Battery Innovation Feasibility Studies: round one

This competition supports feasibility studies that de risk promising ideas across the battery value chain for electrified applications. Projects should generate early technical and commercial evidence that unlocks the next stage of development.

Eligible areas include:

Advanced materials discovery, formulation and characterisation
Cell, module and pack concepts that improve performance, safety or cost
Manufacturing processes and quality control methods that enable scale up
Second life and recycling approaches that strengthen circularity and supply security
System integration for automotive, aviation, maritime or stationary storage

Successful proposals clarify the use case, identify target customers or adopters, and show how feasibility learning will guide a route to industrial research, demonstration and market entry in the UK.

Funding and award size

Total competition funding: £20 million
Per project grant request: between £70,000 and £500,000
Budget your eligible costs and match funding so that your grant ask sits within the published range and aligns to the permitted funding rates for the activities you plan to deliver.

What assessors look for

Innovation strength and a clear technical hypothesis for feasibility testing
Market need with identified use cases, potential adopters and value drivers
Robust plan for experiments, evidence gathering and decision points
Consortium quality, roles and access to facilities or supply chains
Value for money, credible risks and a route to industrial research or demonstration

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Bid plan with responsibilities, timeline, and compliance checks
Optional end to end writing, submission, and audit readiness

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What you get

Portfolio scan and eligibility fit across Innovate UK, Horizon Europe, Eurostars
12 month call calendar, deadlines and funding rates, with quick scoring
Consortium gap analysis and partner shortlist
Bid plan with responsibilities, timeline, and compliance checks
Optional end to end writing, submission, and audit readiness

“A good roadmap removes the noise. CFOs get a realistic bid calendar, not false hope. We align funding to the business plan so teams move quickly and stay compliant.”
Dr. Chrysi Karagiannaki, R&D Tax Consultant, FI Group UK

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Frequently asked questions

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