Key Information
The Zero Emission Vessel and Infrastructure Round 2 (ZEVI 2) competition is part of a suite of interventions launched by the UK Shipping Office for Reducing Emissions (UK SHORE) programme.
UK SHORE aims to transform the UK into a global leader in the design and manufacturing of clean maritime technology and accelerate the fuels and technologies required to decarbonise the sector to meet net zero. This competition supports the delivery of the UK Government’s Maritime Decarbonisation Strategy.
The overall aim of this competition is to fund UK business led development and build of innovative clean maritime technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Successful projects will be required to demonstrate their technology for three years without funding support.
The three strands of the competition will fund:
- alternative fuel vessels
- alternative fuel bunkering and storage infrastructure within ports
- 100% battery electric vessels
- vessel charging infrastructure
- shore power and port energy infrastructure
- vessel energy efficiency technology
Alternative fuels are defined in the Scope section.
Your proposal must build, deploy and operate for three years innovative clean maritime technologies focussed on on-vessel technologies and any related shoreside infrastructure, including at ports, harbours, inland waterways, marinas and offshore.
The ZEVI 2 competition is funding technology development and build across three strands:
- Zero Emission Vessels and Infrastructure 2: Alternative Fuels
- Zero Emission Vessels and Infrastructure 2: Electric Power
- Zero Emission Vessels and Infrastructure 2: Energy Efficiency
The Alternative Fuels strand will fund the development and build of innovative alternative fuel vessels and accompanying port refuelling infrastructure.
The Electric Power strand will fund the development and build of:
- innovative 100% battery electric vessels and accompanying charging infrastructure, and
- novel, innovative and commercially viable shore power systems including related energy infrastructure at ports and any accompanying vessel upgrades
The Energy Efficiency strand will fund the development and build of innovative vessel energy efficiency technology and any accompanying innovative infrastructure upgrades.
Your demonstration must include the vessels and any infrastructure being used in a representative real world operational environment for a period of three years.
Find out more by clicking the links to each strand above.