Apply for the Ara Ake National Flex Discovery Fund

Ara Ake is distributing up to $1 million in grants to help flexibility service providers accelerate New Zealand’s energy transition.

Applicant details

All fields marked * are required.

First name *Last name *

Organisation / Company name *Job title *

Email *Phone

The total allocation across both Track 1 and Track 2 is limited to $1 million. Ara Ake will seek to award as many applicants as possible for the greatest value-for-money. This will involve some discretion and you may be contacted for a follow-up discussion regarding your application.

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Eligibility

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Tell us about your business model or solution and how it fits into the flexibility ecosystem.

Demonstrate how your business can deliver flexibility services now or in the near future with grant support (please provide timeline).

If your business is already coordinating flexibility services, provide a brief overview of current involvement in markets / programmes (e.g. reserves, wholesale, EDB programmes).

Are you applying for Track 1 or Track 2? You can apply for both.

TRACK ONE
_{Support flexibility service providers in becoming visible and discoverable to market participants on an open-access flexibility platform.
Applicants may apply for Track 1 funding up to $15,000. Please state the amount you need and provide a breakdown of costs. Include how funding will help you to achieve your connectivity and visibility goals. Funding is competitive and will be allocated based on the merits of your application.}

TRACK TWO
_{Support flexibility service providers who are already on an open-access flexibility platform to scale or enhance the capacity or reliability of their flexibility resource.
There is no funding cap, however funding will be rewarded on a cost competitive basis. Funding will be awarded pro rata for lowest cost per kW of flexibility resource made available. You will need to provide a cost per kW figure and how you calculated it. If there are extraneous costs (i.e. people resource) then also include these, providing a detailed breakdown and explain how funding will help you to achieve your capacity or reliability goals.}

Track 1

Track 2

TRACK ONE

Tell us about your flexibility resources

TRACK ONE

Which platform do you intend to connect to? Select all that apply.

Flexviz

FlexPoint

Localflex

Other _{– proprietary platforms will not be considered, the platform must be open access, based on common communication protocols and serve the goal of making flexibility resources visible and discoverable to market participants.}

Why have you selected this platform? Please tell us if you think there’s another platform that we have missed which fits the criteria.

TRACK ONE

What are your key milestones and timeframes?

TRACK ONE

How much total funding do you require? The cap is $15,000 per applicant.

TRACK ONE

Please provide a cost breakdown of your funding request. How will the funds be spent to deliver your visibility and connectivity goals?

TRACK ONE

Have you applied for or been awarded funding from any other government agency or accelerator programme to enable this project?

TRACK ONE

Do you have any thoughts about what else we could do to help move your solution forward?

TRACK TWO

Which open access flexibility platform/s is your business currently connected to and visible on?

TRACK TWO

Tell us about your solution to scale or enhance the capacity or reliability of your existing flexibility resource. Will this improve volume, diversity or deliverability? Please select all that apply:

Volume _{(increase available flexibility capacity)}

Diversity _{(increasing types of devices connected or locational/temporal diversity)}

Deliverability _{(enhance availability, performance or reliability of the resource)}

TRACK TWO

What are your key milestones and timeframes?

TRACK TWO

How much total funding do you require?

TRACK TWO

Please provide a cost per kW figure that reflects how much flexibility resource this funding ask will help deliver.

TRACK TWO

How did you calculate this?

TRACK TWO

Are there any other costs you did not include in this calculation? Please provide a breakdown of what these are, if included in your total funding ask.

TRACK TWO

Have you applied for or been awarded funding from any other government agency or accelerator programme to enable this project?

TRACK TWO

Do you have any thoughts about what else we could do to help move your solution forward?

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