{"id":2875,"date":"2022-11-24T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T10:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2022\/11\/24\/eu-ferry-charging-project\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:00:24","slug":"eu-ferry-charging-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/projects-initiatives\/eu-ferry-charging-project\/","title":{"rendered":"EU ferry charging project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The HYPOBATT (hyper powered vessel battery charging system) project is part of the EU-wide Horizon initiative aimed at advancing electrification in the marine industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEurope has aggressive sustainability targets to reduce CO2 emissions by at least 40% until 2030,\u201d said Olivier Kompaore, vice president for Industry Product Line at Wabtec.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline_image inline_image_right image_size_med\" data-attachment=\"268471\" data-sequence=\"1\">\n<p class=\"picture\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/11\/01_268471_img_39632_589062-scaled.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"lazyloaded wp-image-2877\" width=\"3456\" height=\"5184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/11\/01_268471_img_39632_589062-scaled.webp 1365w, https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/11\/01_268471_img_39632_589062-200x300.webp 200w, https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/11\/01_268471_img_39632_589062-683x1024.webp 683w, https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/11\/01_268471_img_39632_589062-768x1152.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/11\/01_268471_img_39632_589062-1024x1536.webp 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3456px) 100vw, 3456px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis project will help to standardise a modular, fast, and easy multi-megawatt charging system, paving the way for clean, zero-emission and competitive solutions for maritime transportation. Wabtec\u2019s state-of-the-art charging solutions, like FerryCHARGER, will serve as the blueprint for the project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wabtec is working in a consortium with 18 partners who are responsible for a 42-month project to identify charging solutions that reduce contact time, wait time and maintenance cost.<\/p>\n<p>The project also will develop a fully automatic electric ship connection system with the capacity to fully charge a vessel\u2019s battery while at the dock.<\/p>\n<p>The consortium aims to reduce connection time to less than 30 seconds, charging time by 10%, and space dock side for the system by 20% as well as improving charger availability by 95% and battery life by 10%.<\/p>\n<p>The technology will be demonstrated at the ports of Norddeich and Norderney in Germany using a vessel owned by the Reederei Norden-Frisia shipping company.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline_image  image_size_full\" data-attachment=\"268747\" data-sequence=\"5\">\n<p class=\"picture\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"combo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/11\/02_268747_combo_107787.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"lazyloaded wp-image-2878\" width=\"634\" height=\"103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/11\/02_268747_combo_107787.webp 634w, https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/11\/02_268747_combo_107787-300x49.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wabtec Corporation has signed up to a project to develop a megawatt-charging standard and infrastructure for ferries calling at ports across Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[595],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects-initiatives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875","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=2875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2879,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions\/2879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}