Design of the UKs first new Fully Electric Domestic Passenger Vessel

旅行者海运正受到新冠肺炎的不利影响，随着其客户大幅缩短年度维护期，该公司的收入可能会继续下降。旅行者的客户是国内客轮(DPV)和渔船，这些船通常会在一年中的大部分时间占据船厂，但在2020/2021年这种情况不会发生。我们决定利用为DPV和24M以下商业工作船开发零碳、全电力推进系统所创造的机会。所提供的资金将使我们能够设计一艘船，在康沃尔和普利茅斯之间的关键和繁忙的通勤路线上运行。这艘船每天将运行长达14个小时，无需插电充电。该设计将侧重于一种清洁的流体力学高效船型，以最大限度地利用可用储存的能量，其设计和建造将使其能够在拥堵的海洋环境中有效地运行，那里有强潮条件、波涛汹涌的海面和具有挑战性的泊位。该设计将体现Voyager Marine正在采取的前瞻性方法，并可能包括更多的零碳解决方案，如广泛的光伏电池板或类似的可再生能源集群。这将使该业务从传统造船厂过渡到进步的造船厂，作为一个专业中心运营，拥有设计、建造、转换和维护未来零碳、全电力推进的商业船舶的知识库、技能和能力。这将使Voyager成为一个非常特别的地方，使我们能够将造船厂发展成一个国际公认的中心，其中包括有才华和熟练的当地劳动力，以满足不久的将来零碳商船市场的需求。我们的目标和目标与英国中央政府通过清洁海事计划的目标完全一致，该计划的目标是到2025年让零碳商船在英国水域运营。此外，康沃尔县议会和普利茅斯市议会都制定了到2030年实现碳中性的目标，我们的计划也将在很大程度上支持这些目标，通过完全通电将近海作业的船只的排放量减少到零。造船厂将与来自西南部的海军建筑师团队以及船只运营商密切合作，以确保我们实现的设计体现了船只的零碳本质，利用了可再生能源的想法，如光伏太阳能电池板，在恶劣的海洋环境中运行有效，并且可以在不定期充电的情况下有效运行，每天长达14小时。这些设计还必须获得监管机构的批准，才能用于建造英国第一艘全电动国内客轮。

Voyager Marine is being adversely affected by COVID-19 and it is likely to see a continued fall in revenue as its customers significantly reduce their annual maintenance periods. Voyagers' customers are Domestic Passenger Vessels (DPVs) and fishing vessels which would normally occupy the boatyard for the much of the year, in 2020/2021 this will not happen. We have determined to make use of the opportunity created by developing zero-carbon, fully electric propulsion systems for the DPV and under 24m commercial workboat sector.The funding provided will enable us to design a vessel to operate on the vital and busy commuter route between Cornwall and Plymouth. The vessel will operate for up to 14 hours per day without the need to plug in to recharge. The design will focus on a clean hydrodynamically efficient hull form to maximise the use of the stored energy available, be of a design and construction that will allow it to be able to effectively operate in a congested maritime environment, with strong tidal conditions, rough seas and challenging berthing locations. The design will exemplify the forward-looking approach that Voyager Marine is taking and will potentially include additional zero-carbon solutions such as an extensive cluster of photovoltaic panels or similar renewable energy sources.This will enable the business to transition from a traditional boatyard, building and maintaining a significant number of the DPVs in operation around the UK today to a progressive boatyard, operating as a specialist hub with the knowledge base, skills and capabilities to design, build, convert and maintain zero-carbon, fully electric propulsion, commercial vessels into the future. This will make Voyager a very special place, allowing us to develop the boatyard, which includes a talented, skilled local workforce into an internationally recognised centre to meet the needs of the zero-carbon commercial vessel market of the near future.Our aims and objectives match fully those of the UK central government through the Clean Maritime Plan, which aims to have zero-carbon commercial vessels operating in UK waters by 2025\. In addition both Cornwall County Council and Plymouth City Council have established targets of being carbon neutral by 2030, our plans will also go a considerable way to supporting these objectives, by reducing the emissions of those vessels operating close inshore to zero by becoming fully electric.The boatyard will be working closely with a team of naval architects from the Southwest, together with the vessel operator to ensure that we achieve a design which exemplifies the zero-carbon nature of the vessel, utilises renewable energy ideas i.e. Photovoltaic solar panels, is operationally effective in a harsh maritime environment and can operate effectively without regular charging for up to 14 hours per day. The designs must also gain the approval of the regulator to enable them to be used for the construction of the UK's first Fully Electric Domestic Passenger Vessel.