IDRIC funding awarded to decarbonise industry

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IDRIC, part of the UKRI Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge (IDC) has been awarded nearly £6m to support decarbonisation of the UK’s largest industrial clusters.

Industry plays a vital role in society, contributing to nine per cent of the UK’s GDP, but contributes around 25 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

IDRIC recently launched a call for a second wave of new industrial decarbonisation research projects, offering stakeholders the opportunity to respond to emerging innovation and research needs and complementing its existing programme of projects.

The funding will go toward 20 projects covering a wide range of technological, environmental, economic, skills and social aspects of decarbonisation.

Priorities that are addressed include low carbon technologies (carbon capture usage and storage, hydrogen, greenhouse gas removal); systems and scale up; policy frameworks; workforce skills development; and equality, diversity and inclusion.

In a statement announcing the funding, IDRIC said that the successful bids demonstrated how they would employ active dialogue and collaboration with key industrial stakeholders to ensure that outcomes and impact remain closely tied to industry needs. The funding extends IDRIC’s current research programme of 40 projects.

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