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Dynamic Techno-Economical Scenario Simulation Model for Sustainable Waterborne Activities and Transport

PROJECTS
Funding
European
European Union
Duration
-
Status
Ongoing
Geo-spatial type
Other
Total project cost
€523 438
EU Contribution
€523 437
Project Acronym
NEEDS
STRIA Roadmaps
Low-emission alternative energy for transport (ALT)
Transport mode
Waterborne icon
Transport policies
Environmental/Emissions aspects
Transport sectors
Freight transport

Overview

Call for proposal
HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01
Link to CORDIS
Background & Policy context

Sustainable energy deployment within an existing transport network needs timely coordination of all stakeholders, including energy production capacity, storage, bunkering logistics in harbours, and ships as end-users.

The EU-funded NEEDS project (NEw sustainablE fuel Deployment Scenarios for the European waterborne community) will develop a dynamic techno-economic to assess different scenarios at regional level. The project proposes a framework and methodology to simulate maritime or inland regions, containing regional facts on the transport network, hindcast data of environmental conditions, regional energy production needs.

Scenarios will allow to identify bottlenecks and needs to make such transition a success. The model will support the EU, the regional waterborne community, and the harbours, offering an assessment of the most efficient pathways towards their energy transition on local and regional levels.

Objectives

Deployment of sustainable energy within an existing transport network is a challenge which requires an independent and transparent analysis and overview. To be successful, it implies a timely coordination of all stakeholders, from energy production capacity, to storage & bunkering logistics in harbours and up to the end-users: the inland waterways and maritime transport, and waterborne activities.

A lot of information about each stakeholders, their characteristics in terms of technical readiness, emission level, actual transport capacity, costs, scalability and impact are available. Putting all parts of the puzzle together is the aim of the present study.

We are ready to apply existing scenario simulation techniques, containing among others regional information on transport network and hindcast data of weather conditions (for regional energy production), to simulate different scenarios of sustainable fuel deployment. Forcing certain variables as input into the model in order to study its impact on other quantities, will help evaluating the viability of certain scenarios or identify bottlenecks and best tactics to overcome them.

This dynamic techno-economic model will hopefully help the Commission, the member states, the regional waterborne community and the harbours evaluating the most efficient pathways towards their energy transition, for local to regional scale. The amount of details brought into the parameters of the model will allow to run such simulation from micro to macro scale. The model will primarily focus on variables and parameters related to the waterborne community. However, it will not be closed and will able a possible future inclusion of other sources of energy needs, if made available from land-based activity and transport, or aviation.

Funding

Specific funding programme
Horizon 2.5 Climate, Energy and Mobility
HORIZON.2.5.7 - Clean, Safe and Accessible Transport and Mobility
HORIZON.2.5.6 - Industrial Competitiveness in Transport
Other Programme
HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01-09 CSA identifying waterborne sustainable fuel deployment scenarios (ZEWT Partnership)

Partners

Lead Organisation
Organisation
STICHTING MARITIEM RESEARCH INSTITUUT NEDERLAND
Address
Haagsteeg 2, 6708 PM WAGENINGEN, Netherlands
EU Contribution
€136 625
Partner Organisations
Organisation
ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS
Address
CHARILAOU THERMI ROAD 6 KM, 57001 THERMI THESSALONIKI, Greece
EU Contribution
€75 625
Organisation
SINTEF OCEAN AS
Address
PAUL FJERMSTADS VEG 59, 7052 TRONDHEIM, Norway
Organisation website
EU Contribution
€60 250
Organisation
SHIPYARDS AND MARITIME EQUIPMENT ASSOCIATION OF EUROPE
Address
RUE DE LA LOI 67, 1000 BRUXELLES, Belgium
Organisation website
EU Contribution
€16 000
Organisation
BALANCE TECHNOLOGY CONSULTING GMBH
Address
CONTRESCARPE 33, 28203 BREMEN, Germany
EU Contribution
€82 312
Organisation
Stichting Projecten Binnenvaart
Address
VASTELAND 78, 3011 BN ROTTERDAM, Netherlands
EU Contribution
€103 875
Organisation
WATERBORNE TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM
Address
WETSTRAAT 67, 1000 BRUSSEL, Belgium
EU Contribution
€48 750

Technologies

Technology Theme
Computer-aided design and engineering
Technology
CAE shipyard simulation and monitoring systems
Development phase
Research/Invention

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