Design of the UKs first new Fully Electric Domestic Passenger Vessel

VoyagerMarine正受到COVID-19的不利影响，由于其客户大幅缩短年度维护期，其收入可能会持续下降。Voyagers的客户是国内客船（DPVs）和渔船，通常会在一年的大部分时间占用船厂，但在2020/2021年不会发生这种情况。我们决定利用为DPV和24米以下商业工作船领域开发零碳、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在康沃尔和普利茅斯之间重要而繁忙的忙碌通勤航线上运行的船只。该船将每天运行长达14小时，而无需插入充电。该设计将侧重于清洁的流体动力学效率高的船体形式，以最大限度地利用现有的储存能量，其设计和建造将使其能够在拥挤的海洋环境中有效地运行，具有强烈的潮汐条件，波涛汹涌的大海和具有挑战性的停泊位置。该设计将体现Voyager Marine正在采取的前瞻性方法，并可能包括额外的零碳解决方案，例如广泛的光伏电池板或类似的可再生能源。这将使企业能够从传统的船坞过渡到进步的船坞，建造和维护当今英国各地运营的大量DPV，作为一个专业中心运营，拥有设计，建造，转换和维护零碳，全电力推进，未来商业船舶的知识基础，技能和能力。这将使Voyager成为一个非常特殊的地方，使我们能够将船厂发展成为一个国际公认的中心，其中包括一个有才华，熟练的当地劳动力，以满足不久的将来零碳商业船舶市场的需求。我们的目标和目标完全符合英国中央政府通过清洁海事计划，该公司的目标是到2025年在英国水域运营零碳商业船只。此外，康沃尔郡理事会和普利茅斯市理事会都制定了到2030年实现碳中和的目标，我们的计划也将大力支持这些目标，通过全电动化将近海运营的船舶的排放量减少到零。船厂将与来自西南部的海军建筑师团队密切合作，与船舶运营商一起，确保我们实现的设计体现了船舶的零碳性质，利用可再生能源理念，即光伏太阳能电池板，在恶劣的海洋环境中有效运行，并且可以在每天长达14小时的情况下有效运行。这些设计还必须获得监管机构的批准，以便用于建造英国首艘全电动国内客船。

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.