Both vessel propulsion and berth power supply are significant to meet the goal of zero-emission inland navigation. Offering shore power to docked vessels reduces climate-disrupting pollutant emissions of diesel generators. The current approach to introduce shore power for inland shipping is fragmented and often country-specific, with insufficient competition, incomplete information, high transaction costs and the risk of a vendor lock in.
SPIES brings stakeholders together to develop in co-creation a policy recommendation plan that will be de livered and introduced to policy levels to coordinate the roll out of shore power. Through cooperation and building on the results of existing initiatives, SPIES creates a uniform policy interoperability scheme which secures and promotes a fair and competitive shore power market and avoid too dominant market positions. SPIES will, moreover, lead to a network for the development of shore power facilities, policy advice, supported standards, policy objectives and a data protocol in line with the Fit for 55 objectives.
