The University of Plymouth is playing a key role in a consortium which has secured £3.2m of UK government funding to deliver critical marine charging infrastructure.
Ten sites along the south coast of England are being plugged into the UK’s clean maritime revolution as part of a collaborative and Government-funded initiative.
The Electric Seaway project will create the infrastructure necessary to power the region’s ever-growing fleet of electric maritime vessels.
It will be targeted at leisure and commercial vessels under 24m in size, boats which are a common feature of the UK’s 120 commercial ports and 400 non-cargo handling ports.
By enabling those vessels to move to clean energy, the £3.2million project will not only support the Maritime 2050 decarbonisation goals but prevent an estimated 300 tonnes of CO2 from being released into the environment each year.
The project is being driven by a consortium that has secured funding through the Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition Round 3 (CMDC3), a programme funded by the Department for Transport, and delivered in partnership with Innovate UK.
It builds on the success of the Marine eCharging Living Lab (MeLL) project, an initiative led by the University and a number of the current project partners, which launched the UK’s first charging network for electric maritime vessels in Plymouth in 2022.
