Great British Energy opens £300M fund to more clean energy manufacturers
What's the deal? Great British EnergyDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → has widened its £300 million Supply Chain Fund: Offshore Wind and Networks, more than doubling the eligible critical components from 12 to 29. The expansion opens capital grant opportunities to more UK manufacturers building parts for offshore wind and electricity networks.
What's the endgame? The fund sits within Great British Energy's £1 billion Energy Engineered in the UK programme, designed to unlock investment in clean energy supply chains and build domestic manufacturing. The 17 newly added items include jackets, generators, gearboxes, and power converters for offshore wind turbines, plus network components such as HV bushings and converter valves.
Why now? The updated list reflects the latest market intelligence on critical and constrained components across offshore wind and electricity networks. By backing parts deeper in the supply chain, the fund aims to tackle bottlenecks at multiple levels and underpin the UK's expanding clean energy infrastructure.
Between the lines: Great British Energy has also launched an Additional Critical Components process, inviting manufacturers, trade bodies, and other stakeholders to submit evidence on further parts that could qualify. It plans to keep the eligible list under review as market conditions and supply constraints shift.
What they're saying: "Building a strong UK clean energy industry means investing not just in major infrastructure, but in the manufacturers and specialist components that make it possible," said Rob Gilbert, interim director of supply chain at Great British Energy.
The signal: The expansion marks a push to reindustrialise around clean energy, directing public capital toward domestic production rather than imported hardware. It signals that the UK's offshore wind ambitions increasingly hinge on securing the supply chain behind the turbines.
Read more: construction.co.uk
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