Great British Energy (GBE) Supply Chain Fund: Offshore Wind and Networks

Funding Amount

The Great British Energy (GBE) Supply Chain Fund: Offshore Wind and Networks is a capital grant programme designed to build UK manufacturing capacity for key constrained components in the offshore wind and enabling electricity networks sectors.

The fund will award up to £300 million in capital grant funding. There is no minimum or maximum restriction on the size of the investment. The amount of grant requested must represent the minimum necessary for the project to proceed.

There is no maximum restriction on the size of the grant sought or awarded.

Additional funding details:

• Funding is in the form of capital grant funding

• Grant funding must be drawn down between April 2026 and March 2030

• Grant payments will be made in arrears, after claims for defrayed expenditure against agreed eligible costs and deliverables have been submitted and verified by GBE

Eligible Applicants

Eligible applicants must meet the following criteria:

• The applicant must be a company registered under the Companies Act 2006 at the point of submitting a full application.

• Projects from all areas of the UK are eligible for funding, subject to Windsor Framework considerations.

Eligible Activities

The grant is designed to support projects that build UK manufacturing capacity for key constrained components in the offshore wind and enabling electricity networks sectors.

Funding must be used to:

• Construct new manufacturing facilities in the UK, or

• Extend existing manufacturing facilities in the UK

The completed project must manufacture one or more of the critical components on the following eligibility list:

• Mooring and anchoring

• Blades

• Nacelles

• Towers

• Monopiles

• Transition pieces

• HVDC cables

• HVAC cables (including dynamic)

• Power transformers (AC and DC)

• HVDC converter stations

• Switchgear

• Reactive power management and control systems

Eligible costs must be capital expenditure directly related to the project, with a limited scope including:

• Buildings

• Production equipment and machinery

• Associated infrastructure that facilitates delivery and is linked to the specific product being manufactured

• Research and development costs associated with the manufacturing facility, provided that the grant is also for construction of the relevant facilities

Program Deadline

10 December 2026