Battery in zero-emission ships

Battery in Zero-Emission Ships (Batteri i nullutslippsskip)

Funds Norwegian enterprises investing in battery-electric ships through Enova grants.

Enova administers Batteri i nullutslippsskip as a business grant for battery-electric vessels in Norway. The programme supports the added cost of investing in battery-electric ships, both for newbuilds and conversions, and can also support charging infrastructure needed to operate the vessels.

The source states that support is limited to NOK 100 million per vessel project. Charging infrastructure support may come in addition. Enova can cover up to 80 percent of approved additional vessel costs and up to 60 percent of charging-infrastructure costs. The supplied facts do not state a total programme pool, a dated deadline, or a scoring method.

Eligible applicants are enterprises planning to invest in battery-electric ships, provided the applicant is either the ship owner or a long-term operator with an agreement of at least five years. Supported vessels must be registered in NOR or NIS and, as a general rule, have at least one third of their operation in Norway.

Applicants proceed through the Enova application link on the programme page. The source text supplied for this build does not state required attachments, review steps, or scoring criteria, so those fields are left empty rather than inferred.

The practical caveat is that the programme funds the extra cost of battery-electric vessels, not a general maritime R&D project. Operators should be ready to document ownership or long-term operating rights, Norwegian vessel registration, Norwegian operating share, and the cost difference tied to the battery-electric investment.