Dates
Competition closes: 19 April 2023, 11am
Invite to interview: 15 May 2023 (interviews held 7-21 June)
Applicants notified: 17 July 2023
Project start date & duration: 1 October 2023 (up to 20 months – all grant funding claimed by 31 March 2025)
Scope
The ZEVI competition is funding multi year demonstrations across 3 strands:
- Strand 1: Battery electric vessels and charging infrastructure
- Strand 2: Shore power technologies, shore-side and vessel-side (this strand)
- Strand 3: Alternative fuel vessels and refuelling infrastructure
The aim of this competition is to fund:
- 100% battery electric vessels
- alternative fuel vessels
- vessel energy efficiency technology, such as wind assistance
- vessel charging infrastructure
- shore power and corresponding vessel technology
- alternative fuel refuelling infrastructure for vessels
Your proposal must build, deploy and operate novel clean maritime technologies focussed on on-vessel technologies and related shoreside infrastructure including at ports, harbours and offshore.
Specific Themes
Your project can focus on one or more of the following:
- domestic green corridors
- ferry services, including between islands and on inland waterways
Eligibility
You must:
- Demonstrate all funded vessels and infrastructure for 3 years, at your own cost, ending 31 March 2028.
- Engage with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) during the project.
- Be a UK registered business of any size to lead a project, a ship owner or manufacturer or operator (ship as defined in the Merchant Shipping Act (MSA) 1995 Section 313(1)), or an infrastructure owner or operator, such as a port or windfarm
- The lead must collaborate with a UK registered infrastructure owner or operator if you are a ship owner, manufacturer or operator, or collaborate with a UK registered ship owner, manufacturer or operator if you are an infrastructure owner or operator
- Other collaborators can include other UK registered businesses, academic institutions, charities, not for profits, public sector organisations and research and technology organisations (RTO).
- Subcontractors can be used (with justification) and preferably UK-based.
Funding
- Total project costs between £3 million and £40 million. Total grant request must not exceed £20 million.
- Funding can be requested for capital project costs and non-capital R&D costs.
- Maximum intervention rate on capital equipment purchases is 80% grant for the project duration.
For Industrial Research you could get funding for your eligible project costs of:
- up to 70% if you are a micro or small organisation
- up to 60% if you are a medium-sized organisation
- up to 50% if you are a large organisation
For Experimental Development you could get funding for your eligible project costs of:
- up to 45% if you are a micro or small organisation
- up to 35% if you are a medium-sized organisation
- up to 25% if you are a large organisation
Research organisations can share up to 5% of the total eligible project costs.
How PNO can support you
The UK team has a strong track record in securing some of the most competitive national and European grants on behalf of its clients, with a full understanding of how a project should be presented to stand the highest chance of success. With our extensive experience and through careful project selection and using key insight into how a project should be best positioned, we consistently achieve success rates that are more than 5 times the typical success rates for UK and EU programmes.
For further information or to discuss a project idea please contact PNO Consultants 0161 488 3488 | info.uk@pnoconsultants.com | https://www.pnoconsultants.com/uk/
