The proposed project would see NatPower Marine invest an estimated \u00a3100m to develop the UK\u2019s first commercial electric ship charging network for use across all eight UK and Irish ports operated by Peel Ports. The network would also include chargers for commercial EVs passing through the ports.<\/p>\n
The project marks the first step in a new \u00a33 billion global charging network, planned by NatPower Marine for 120 ports worldwide by 2030. The first Irish Sea routes identified in the proposals include Belfast-Heysham and Dublin-Birkenhead.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe proposals presented as part of this partnership are potentially game-changing, and fully support our ambitions to become a net-zero port operator by 2040,\u201d said Claudio chief executive at Peel Ports Group.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe look forward to working closely with NatPower Marine to explore the possibilities for establishing the first green shipping corridor between the UK and Ireland, and further enabling support for our customers, shipping lines and hauliers as they transition to a greener future.\u201d<\/p>\n
Driving the marine industry towards net zero<\/strong><\/p>\n One sixth of greenhouse gas emissions produced by the shipping industry occur whilst at port. To decarbonise the sector entirely would require 4 petawatt-hours of clean power per year, equal to the energy consumption of the US.<\/p>\n NatPower Marine says it is taking a radically different approach to address this challenge by removing the biggest barrier to change \u2013 upfront investment \u2013 and building the port infrastructure needed for shore power.<\/p>\n NatPower is also developing over 15GW of clean energy GigaParks projects in the UK, with 60GWh of battery storage capacity, crucial for balancing intermittent demand like shore power.<\/p>\n \u201cNatPower Marine is investing to deploy the largest global network of charging points to help solve the \u2018chicken and egg conundrum\u2019 facing this industry \u2013 shipping lines cannot electrify their vessels if port charging infrastructure is not available, and ports are unable to raise capital for charging infrastructure without certainty of demand from shipping lines,\u201d said Stefano Sommadossi, chief executive at NatPower Marine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In what is being hailed as a \u2018blueprint to drastically cut emissions\u2019, NatPower Marine and Peel Ports Group have unveiled plans to establish the first green shipping corridor between the UK and Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,34,8],"tags":[1410,1616,1617,757,212,179],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy-technology-greenport","category-europe-greenport","category-projects-initiatives-greenport","tag-green-shipping-corridor","tag-ireland","tag-natpower-marine","tag-net-zero","tag-peel-ports","tag-shore-power"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335","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=4335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4337,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335\/revisions\/4337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4335"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}