📋 Tender Overview
Funding
European
European Union
Duration
01/2024
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12/2026
Status Ongoing
Geo-spatial type Other
Total project cost €11 334 100
EU Contribution €8 498 001
Project website
https://bluebarge.eu/
Project Acronym BlueBARGE
STRIA Roadmaps
Transport electrification (ELT)
Transport mode
Waterborne icon
Transport policies
Environmental/Emissions aspects, Deployment planning/Financing/Market roll-out
Transport sectors
Passenger transport, Freight transport
Call for proposal HORIZON-CL5-2023-D5-01
Link to CORDIS
CORDIS ID: 101138694
Background & Policy context
Power barges are like floating power plants independent of external resources or infrastructure. Quick to deploy, they can provide energy to ships in emergencies or in areas lacking land-based power plants. The EU-funded BlueBARGE project aims to design, develop and demonstrate a fully integrated and more sustainable power barge solution primarily for offshore power to moored and anchored vessels. It will include greater electrification, battery storage and potentially hydrogen fuel cells and hydrogen generators. The project will address all relevant areas, including: electrical integration; interfacing with ships, ports and local grids; operational safety; and regulatory compliance. The solution, ready to be commercialised by 2030, will have an important impact on reducing the shipping industry’s emissions.
Objectives
The shipping industry is responsible for around 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and this is expected to increase as global trade and shipping activity continues to grow. As such, reducing emissions from shipping is an important part of global efforts to tackle climate change. In recent years, policies and legislation, mainly focusing on environmental sustainability, have pushed international shipping toward the process of its decarbonization. Regulatory bodies are pressing on the maritime world by adopting ambitious targets and by introducing a number of initiatives that will facilitate the transition to a sustainable future, including the International Maritime Organization's strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from shipping, which aims to halve emissions from the sector by 2050 compared to 2008 levels.
To this end, BlueBARGE will design, develop and demonstrate an optimum power-barge solution to mainly support offshore power supply to moored and anchored vessels, limiting local polluting emissions and global GHG footprint in a life cycle perspective, following a modular, scalable, adaptable and flexible design approach which will facilitate its commercialisation by 2030. The proposed power-barge solution will consider different alternatives as containerised power supply modules in a variety of configurations, where battery modules will serve as basis due to their high energy efficiency and readiness level, and other considered modules including hydrogen fuel cells and hydrogen generators. The project will address electrical int
