Deadline: 9-Nov-22
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £60 million for innovative clean maritime technologies. This funding is from The Department for Transport.
The Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition (CMDC) Round 3 is part of a suite of interventions to be launched by the UK Shipping Office for Reducing Emissions (UK SHORE). UK SHORE aims to transform the UK into a global leader in the design and manufacturing of clean maritime technology.
The aim of this competition is to fund real world demonstrations of clean maritime technologies in an operational setting. Your proposal must, develop, test and deploy novel clean maritime technologies focused on on-vessel technologies or shoreside infrastructure, including at ports and harbours.
Specific Themes
Your project can focus on one or more of the following:
Domestic green shipping corridors
- Vessel low and zero emission technologies:
- Vessel propulsion and auxiliary engines, for example, battery, fuel cell, and internal combustion engines using low or zero carbon alternative fuels such as hydrogen, methanol or ammonia, including hybrids and engines capable of using multiple fuels including zero emission options.
- Wind propulsion, including soft-sail, fixed-sail, rotor, kite and turbine technologies, targeting a range of ship types from small vessels to large cargo carriers, both as primary and auxiliary propulsion
- Low carbon energy storage and management
- Physical connections to shoreside power or alternative fuels, including fuelling lines
- Enabling technologies such as motors, drives, sensor and power electronics
- Port and shoreside, including offshore solutions:
- shoreside low and zero carbon fuelling including bunkering of such fuels
- charging infrastructure and management
- Low and zero emission shoreside power solutions, such as enabling docked vessels to turn off their conventional power supply for ancillary systems
- Physical connections to shoreside power or alternative fuels, including fuelling lines
- shoreside renewable energy generation at the port to supply vessels
- Zero emission shoreside power supply for vessels, including grid or renewable energy supply
- Low carbon fuel production, such as hydrogen, methanol, ammonia
- Zero emission infrastructure, including stationary assets for freight handling and port operations within a port or harbour site
Funding Information
- Up to £60 million has been allocated to fund innovation projects of this competition. Funding will be in the form of a grant.
Eligibility Criteria
- Your project must:
- Have total project costs between £1 million and £8 million
- Start by 1 April 2023
- End by 31 March 2025
- Last up to 24 months
- Carry out all of its project work in the UK
- Intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
- You must only include eligible project costs in your application.
- Under current restrictions, this competition will not fund any procurement, commercial, business development or supply chain activity with any Russian or Belarusian entity as lead, partner or subcontractor. This includes any goods or services originating from a Russian or Belarusian source.
- If your total project’s costs falls outside of our eligibility criteria. They will decide whether to approve your request. If you have not requested approval or your application has not been approved by them, you will be made ineligible. Your application will then not be sent for assessment.
Lead organisation
- To lead a project your organisation must:
- Be a UK registered business of any size
- Collaborate with other UK registered organisations
- This competition allows Trust Ports to apply as a business of any size.
Project team
- To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:
- Business of any size
- Academic institution
- Charity
- Not for profit
- Public sector organisation
- Research and technology organisation (RTO)
- Each partner organisation must be invited into the Innovation Funding Service by the lead to collaborate on a project. Once accepted, partners will be asked to login or to create an account and enter their own project costs into the Innovation Funding Service.
- The lead and at least one other organisation must claim funding by entering their costs during the application.
- Your project can include partners that do not receive any of this competition’s funding, for example non-UK businesses. Their costs will count towards the total project costs.
For more information, visit https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/1313/overview/d85ba3d5-5f6f-4caf-978a-c00c21069024