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Do you have an opinion on research funding for flexible energy technologies? Innovate UK wants views by today

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Organisations are invited to respond today to an online survey on how a new research fund should be used.

The new Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) was announced alongside the Green Paper setting out plans for an Industrial Strategy on 23 January 2017. It will be set up to support ‘priority technologies’ within the UK.

One of the listed challenge areas is “Smart, flexible & clean energy technologies (such as storage, including batteries & demand response)“.

To identify the priorities for the new fund, Research Councils UK and Innovate UK have opened an online survey to garner the opinions of the UK research community.
The organisations want to :

  • Develop the evidence base for each of the already identified challenge areas.
  • Identify some of the specific challenges within these areas which would particularly benefit from government intervention.
  • Gather suggestions for further broad challenges, and the evidence for them.

The survey closes at 23.59 on Monday 6th February 2017. Find it here