The charging network has been created through the Marine e-Charging Living Lab (MeLL) initiative, a consortium led by the University of Plymouth in partnership with Plymouth City Council, Princess Yachts Limited and Aqua superPower.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe [UK] Clean Maritime 2050 strategy underlines how crucial it is that the sector moves forward and includes a number of ambitious net-zero objectives. That includes the increased electrification of commercial vessels, but if there is no infrastructure in place you cannot support the growing number of businesses looking to employ this technology,\u201d said Sarah Fear, project and knowledge exchange manager at the University of Plymouth and MeLL project lead.<\/p>\n
Tackling port emissions<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThis charging network is a game-changer for Plymouth\u2019s forward-thinking marine enterprises, and our ongoing research in this field is enabling the city and region to blaze a trail in clean maritime innovation,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n A series of high power DC electric charging stations has been switched on in prominent locations along the perimeter of the Plymouth Sound National Marine Park. The network has been designed to offer commercial enterprises of all sizes with a sustainable, cost-effective and time-effective means of making the switch from diesel to electric power.<\/p>\n This includes a 150kw charging facility at Mount Batten, a 75kw site at Queen Anne\u2019s Battery and a 25kw installation at the Barbican landing stage.<\/p>\n Further installations are now being developed along the city\u2019s waterfront, with additional sites also being identified in Devon and Cornwall with a view to providing electric charging facilities every ten miles along the counties\u2019 southern coastline.<\/p>\n The charging network directly responds to the UK government\u2019s Clean Maritime Plan for maritime net zero and its drive to increase the UK\u2019s current percentage of clean electricity to 100% by 2035.<\/p>\n Research by the University, carried out during the planning stage of the project, has shown the network has the potential to reduce port emissions by 96.60% in the next 30 years.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The UK\u2019s first e-marine hub of shore-side charging facilities for electric maritime vessels has been unveiled in Plymouth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[449,448,451,447,450,361,9,35],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-products-services-greenport","tag-commercial-vessels","tag-electric-charging","tag-maritime-emissions","tag-plymouth","tag-plymouth-freeport","tag-port-emissions","tag-ports","tag-uk"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2261,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions\/2261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2259"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}