Ten projects which aim to help position the UK as a global leader in the manufacture of lower emission power electronics, machines and drives (PEMD) technologies have been allocated a share of £16.7 million of UK Research & Innovation funding.
This funding is intended to grow the UK’s manufacturing base for these components while ‘insulating’ British industry against possible future overseas supply chain disruption and driving the economy towards net zero.
“The coming electric revolution presents an opportunity to put the UK at the forefront of a burgeoning industry, creating manufacturing jobs and prosperity across the country,” said UKRI’s Driving the Electric Revolution Challenge director Professor Will Drury.
“By building a sovereign supply chain, we can help make sure zero emission technologies are truly zero emission, while both mitigating against overseas supply chain disruption and cementing the UK’s place at the forefront of a burgeoning industry.”
The £16.7 million investment is part of an overall funding pot of £80 million under the Driving the Electric Revolution Challenge, which encompasses both the PEMD technologies themselves and the supply chains required to manufacture them.
The 10 projects which have won funding and the companies involved are listed as follows:
Advanced sic based solid state transformer (ASSIST) – £1,093,472
- Turbo Power Systems Ltd
- Clas-Sic Wafer Fab Ltd
- Alter Technology Tüv Nord UK Ltd
- Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult Ltd
Coil to core: supply chain for net zero CO2 (COCO) – £1,808,767
- Advanced Electric Machines Ltd
- Centre for Process Innovation Ltd
- Newcastle University
- Tata Steel Nederland Technology B.V.
- Coventry University
- Tata Steel UK Ltd
Differentiating UK capability: reducing footprint and weight of high power, integrated PEMD – £1,990,098
- GE Power Conversion
- Dynex Semiconductor University of Nottingham
- Warwick Manufacturing Group
Enhanced liquid immersion power systems – £2,528,865
- Supply Design Ltd
- Custom Interconnect Ltd
- GSPK Circuits Ltd
- Iceotope Technologies Ltd
- Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult Ltd
A flexible, automated stator assembly platform for lightweight electric motors (FASA) – £691,874
- Edge Mobility Ltd
- Newcastle University
- The University of Warwick
- I Rob International Ltd
Key commercial scale capacitor development for supply chain improvements for PEMD sector (KALEIDOSCOPE) – £529,664
- Johnson Matthey Plc
- Knowles (UK) Ltd
- Gencoa Ltd
- The University of Sheffield
P3EP UK supply chain project – £2,537,842
- Pulse Power and Measurement Ltd
- The Thinking Pod Innovations Ltd
- Cambridge Gan Devices Ltd
- RAM Innovations Ltd
- Cambridge Microelectronics Ltd
- Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult Ltd
Power electronics modules by rapid moulding: PE2M – £524,056
- Ultrawise Innovation Ltd
- Tribus-D Ltd
- Custom Interconnect Ltd
- DZP Technologies Ltd
- HPM Ltd
- Bioniqs Ltd
- The University of Warwick
Supply chain innovation engineering for net zero (SCIENZE) – £2,473,169
- McLaren Applied Ltd
- Newcastle University
- Microchip Technology Caldicot Ltd
- TT Electronics Integrated Manufacturing Services Ltd
- TWI Ltd
UK-Alumotor-2 for LCV – £2,532,242
- Ricardo UK Ltd
- Aspire Engineering Ltd
- Phoenix Scientific Industries Ltd
- C Brandauer and Co. Ltd
- Global Technologies Racing Ltd
- The University of Warwick