Transforming Energy Access (TEA) invites applications from individual consultants or organisations to deliver a Technical Assistance Facility. One successful applicant or consortium will deliver this TA facility, which will sit within the Research Programme Delivery Consortium (RPDC) delivered Support Services. This facility is one component of the Local Partnership Inclusion (LPI) project and aims to support local partners in applying for TEA funding and developing their technical capacity to successfully apply for future funding. Grant funding of up to £140,000 is available to one successful application and the project will run for 15 months from April 2024 to July 2025.

Contact: Harriet.Bradshaw-Smith@carbontrust.com.

Applications opened on 29 November 2023. The deadline for clarification questions has now passed. You can find clarification question responses in the documents below.  

The deadline for all applications is 12 January 2024.

About TEA

Transforming Energy Access (TEA) is the flagship FCDO research and innovation programme supporting early-stage testing and scale-up of innovative technologies and business models that accelerate access to affordable, clean energy for poor households, enterprises, and social institutions in developing countries across sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and the Indo-Pacific. This includes support to innovations across the three Ayrton Fund themes of clean supply, super-efficient demand and smart delivery, as well as integration of solutions across the three.

In late 2021, a £126m scale-up of the platform was announced at COP26, further advancing TEA into a major delivery platform for the Ayrton Fund focused on delivering innovations enabling a Just Transition for the 733 million people who still lack access to electricity and the 2.4 billion people who cook using fuels detrimental to their health and the environment. https://tea.carbontrust.com/