Britain invents world-first clean technologies, then loses the companies at the scale-up stage for lack of patient capital. We’re calling on government to reform the National Wealth Fund and British Business Bank mandates to make long-duration, patient finance an explicit goal, and to champion blended finance mechanisms, pairing public and private capital, for the technologies that need it most.

Clean technology is capital-intensive and strategically critical, but UK support is too narrow and rewards where things get assembled, not who owns the technology. We're pushing government to extend procurement reform, manufacturing incentives and demonstration facilities across all cleantech verticals, and to weight support towards UK-owned IP, not just UK manufacturing. Weighting support towards UK-owned IP means the value of British inventions stays in the UK, rather than only the assembly work.

British industry pays some of the highest electricity prices among major economies. Government has started decoupling gas from electricity prices and cutting costs for manufacturers, but the relief doesn't arrive until 2027 and excludes most cleantech manufacturers. We're pushing government to widen eligibility to cleantech and bring the timeline forward.