Scope

Your project must design, develop and test novel clean maritime or smart shipping technologies that reduce greenhouse emissions:

• from vessels
• from shore-side infrastructure at ports and harbours

You can include autonomous vessels as identified in the Technology and Innovation in UK Maritime Route Map and wind power, where these deliver energy efficiency savings and enable a vessel to be zero emission capable.

Your consortia can include all the necessary partners to achieve the aims of the competition, these can include a representative end user such as a:

• vessel manufacturer
• operator
• port or harbour authority

Clean maritime and smart shipping technologies for all sizes and categories of maritime vessel are in scope. Solutions can be suitable for one target size of vessel or multiple. Leisure and commercial vessels are in scope.

Your project can focus on one or more of the following themes:

• On-vessel low and zero emission technologies – for example vessel propulsion, on-vessel power generation, low carbon energy storage/management, physical connections to shore-side power, enabling technologies such as motors, drives and power electronics
• Port and shore-side solutions – for example shore-side low and zero carbon fuelling, charging infrastructure, renewable energy generation, low carbon fuel production
• Smart shipping technologies – for example autonomy, digitisation and better journey efficiencies directly and indirectly delivering quantifiable energy efficiency savings, other smart shipping technologies, including the control of the emission reduction systems including but not limited to wind propulsion.