The UK government is offering £4.5 million ($6 million) in funding to strengthen the supply chain for power electronics, machines, and drive (PEMD) technology to be used in aviation applications. Grants of between £50,000 and £1 million are being offered by Innovate UK through the agency’s Building Talent for the Future 2 competition for which entries open on January 12.
According to Professor Will Drury, challenge director for Innovate UK’s Driving the Electric Revolution initiative, there is a need to ensure that new and existing PEMD capabilities are available to companies working on new electric aircraft and propulsion systems. He told FutureFlight that advanced systems such as power electronics units to convert electricity to be used in motors or other devices like pumps are already being applied in other sectors, such as manufacturing, offshore wind turbines, and agricultural robotics.
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