The project will accelerate the roll-out of port infrastructure necessary to support the growth of shore power and recharging facilities for vessels, helping to meet the UK government\u2019s Clean Maritime Plan.<\/p>\n
\u201cInadequate availability of affordable and reliable energy resources in ports and harbours is a major barrier to maritime decarbonisation,\u201d said Dr Jonathan Williams, CEO of MSE International.<\/p>\n
\u201dThe PRIMET project will explore and advance key solutions to address this challenge, enabling more widespread electrification across small harbours and large ports alike.\u201d<\/p>\n
Innovative technology<\/strong><\/p>\n PRIMET will develop solutions for supplying energy to shore power and recharging stations at three UK ports.<\/p>\n This project will integrate in-port flow batteries to reduce grid demand and enhance the use of renewable energy, strengthening the business case for investment.<\/p>\n The innovative flow battery technology, currently in development at the University of Southampton, promises significant cost advantages over traditional battery types.<\/p>\n Ports, harbours and jetties are vital for vessel recharging, especially for hybrid or all-electric vessels, but the reality is that current port infrastructure is largely unprepared to support the widespread transition to electric vessels.<\/p>\n PRIMET\u2019s solutions aims to help address this challenge, helping enable faster adoption of clean energy in the maritime sector and accelerating the UK\u2019s journey toward maritime decarbonisation.<\/p>\n The GB\u00a31.4 million TRIG funding supports 32 projects designed to drive innovation in transport sustainability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MSE International has won funding from the UK\u2019s\u00a0Transport Research and Innovation Grant (TRIG)\u00a0to lead the Port Recharging Infrastructure for Maritime Energy Transition (PRIMET) project, aimed at advancing port electrification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,8],"tags":[1853,1062,637,539,48,1852],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy-technology-greenport","category-projects-initiatives-greenport","tag-clean-maritime-plan","tag-mse-international","tag-port-electrification","tag-port-infrastructure","tag-shorepower-electrification","tag-uk-ports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817","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=4817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4819,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions\/4819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4817"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}