Deadline: 19-Apr-23
Applications are now open for Zero emission vessel and infrastructure (ZEVI) competition to transform the UK into a global leader in the design and manufacturing of clean maritime technologies.
The Zero emission vessel and infrastructure (ZEVI) competition is part of a suite of interventions being launched by the UK Shipping Office for Reducing Emissions (UK SHORE), part of DfT.
The aim of this competition is to fund:
- 100% battery electric vessels
- alternative fuel vessels
- vessel energy efficiency technology, such as wind assistance
- vessel charging infrastructure
- shore power and corresponding vessel technology
- alternative fuel refuelling infrastructure for vessels.
Specific Themes
- Your project can focus on one or more of the following:
- domestic green corridors
- ferry services, including between islands and on inland waterways.
Funding Information
- Your project’s total costs must be between £3 million, and £40 million. The total grant cannot exceed £20 million.
Eligibility Criteria
- Your project must:
- have total costs of between £3 million and £40 million
- not exceed a grant request of £20 million
- start by 1 October 2023
- claim all grant funding by 31 March 2025
- complete a 3 year demonstration of all funded vessels and supporting infrastructure
- carry out all of its project work in the UK
- intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
- Lead Organisation
- To lead a project your organisation must:
- be a UK registered business of any size,
- be a ship owner or manufacturer or operator (ship as defined in the Merchant Shipping Act (MSA) 1995 Section 313(1)), or an infrastructure owner or operator, such as a port or windfarm
- collaborate with a UK registered infrastructure owner or operator if you are a ship owner, manufacturer or operator
- collaborate with a UK registered ship owner, manufacturer or operator if you are an infrastructure owner or operator
- To lead a project your organisation must:
- 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.
- To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:
Ineligible
- They are not funding projects that:
- do not meet the scope and objectives of this competition
- focus only on increasing the efficiency of current conventional fossil fuels and fossil fuel powertrains of maritime vessels
- are focusing on on-vessel power generation and fuel production to reduce greenhouse gases (GHG’s), for example, wind turbines, solar panels, synthetic fuel production
- are focusing on nuclear technologies
- are focusing on personal watercraft (PWC)
- propose a demonstration using ancillary equipment that is not zero emission, for example deck machinery
- have significant proportion of costs focussing on standard grid capacity upgrades
- include costs for alternative fuel or energy production
- include costs for purchasing land or for generating electricity
- have failed to demonstrate the resources to deliver multiple zero emission vessel and infrastructure (ZEVI) projects if applicable
- are focused on charging 100% battery electric vessels.
For more information, visit Innovate UK.