New Energy Storage technology: EU Project V-ACCESS gathers 14 industrial and university partners for zero-emission waterborne transport

There are more than 60.000 commercial vessels in operation worldwide which accounts for almost 3% of global CO2 emission and it is widely recognised that substantial CO2 savings can be achieved by integrating some forms of electrifications with batteries charged by shore power.

In this frame, innovative energy storage technologies can significantly improve the performance of batteries for of zero-emission waterborne transport, extending batteries lifetime, increasing the overall efficiency, so reducing (R&D and) operational costs.

The EU project V-ACCESS (“Vessel Advanced Clustered and Coordinated Energy Storage Systems”) combines the efforts of 14 international partners aiming to integrate a superconductive magnetic storage systems and supercapacitors into an innovative DC shipboard power grid to control flexibly the power sharing between the different energy storage technologies.