TechX Clean Energy Accelerator Opens for 2024 Cohort Applications

This intensive programme combines grants and expert support for innovative clean energy start-ups to accelerate the transition to an affordable net zero energy industry.

The £1.2 million TechX Clean Energy Accelerator aims to help innovative clean energy start-ups develop their technologies and grow their business.

The programme offers an intensive 15-week full-time experience, with benefits that include expert technology and business support, mentorship, prototype development, the opportunity for field trials with some of the largest companies in the energy industry and a £100,000 grant.

Early stage start-ups with technology solutions in the following areas can apply:

  • CCUS (Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage) and carbon removal solutions
  • Low carbon hydrogen
  • Alternative fuels and green chemicals
  • Renewable power: offshore and onshore
  • Digital solutions
  • Decarbonised heat and cooling, and other

Applicants can be based anywhere.

The application deadline for the next cohort is 1 October 2023, with the accelerator set to begin in February 2024.

(This report was the subject of a GRANTfinder Newsflash.)