Industrial Hydrogen Accelerator Programme (competition closed)
The Industrial Hydrogen Accelerator Programme provides funding for innovation projects that can demonstrate end-to-end industrial fuel switching to hydrogen.
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The Industrial Hydrogen Accelerator (IHA) competition supported projects generating evidence on end-to-end industrial fuel switching to hydrogen. It covered the full technology chain, from hydrogen generation and delivery infrastructure through to industrial end-use, including the integration of the components in a single project.
The competition funded demonstrations and, where needed, feasibility and FEED studies:
- the feasibility studies explore how systems could be designed and provide information on the technical requirements and costs
- the demonstration projects construct end-to-end industrial hydrogen systems, from hydrogen production to end-use, to prove their feasibility and provide further evidence on the real-world performance and costs
The IHA forms part of the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio, which aimed to accelerate the commercialisation of innovative clean energy technologies and processes through the 2020s and 2030s.
Programme structure
- Stream 1: Demonstration projects – Grant (up to £10 million in grant funding per project). Competition closed
- Stream 2A: Feasibility studies – SBRI (up to £400,000 in SBRI funding per project). Competition closed
- Stream 2B: Demonstration / FEED projects – Grant (up to £7 million available per project) - open only to projects who have completed feasibility studies in Stream 2A. Competition closed
Other hydrogen and industry funding opportunities
Some other funds that may be relevant to your project:
- Industrial Energy Transformation Fund Phase 2
- Electrolytic Allocation Round (Hydrogen business model and Net Zero Hydrogen Fund, reopening in 2023)
- Low carbon hydrogen standard guidance
- Hydrogen investor funding roadmap
We will use the evidence generated by the IHA on the use of hydrogen by industrial users to inform strategic decisions in 2026 on the role of low carbon hydrogen as a replacement for natural gas in the gas grid. For more information on this policy area see the August 2021 UK Hydrogen Strategy.
Contact: iha.nzip@beis.gov.uk
Updates to this page
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Added IHA Stream 2A feasibility reports.
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Industrial Hydrogen Accelerator (IHA): Stream 2B competition now closed to applications.
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Clarification questions updated.
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Latest questions and responses added.
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Stream 2B open to applications from projects that completed feasibility studies in Stream 2A.
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Streams 1 and 2a now closed to applications
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Questions and responses updated.
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Questions and responses updated.
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Questions and responses updated with new questions (version 4).
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Stream 2 guidance updated. Questions and responses updated with new questions.
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Competition guidance for Streams 1 and 2A updated to clarify the position on eligibility of the construction and mining and quarrying sectors: “However, the use of hydrogen for industrial heat in an industrial process (such as industrial boiler/kiln) on a construction, mining or quarrying site is considered an industrial process for the purposes of this competition, and is not excluded on the basis of the sector.”
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Added Industrial Hydrogen Accelerator launch and networking event presentation, 9 May 2022.
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Competition now open to applications: guidance and forms published.
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Added link to Industrial Hydrogen Accelerator Networking Platform.
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Added Stream 1 draft funding agreement, Stream 2A draft Terms and Conditions, questions / answers from the 8 March stakeholder event plus video of event.
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Added details of a Networking event on 24 March 2022, and slides from the 8 March engagement session.
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First published.