Shore power climate grant
Grants for legal entities installing electricity supplies for seagoing ships at Dutch ports, with up to 45% of eligible costs supported.
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Shore power supplies electricity to ships while they are moored. This grant supports buying and installing that infrastructure to reduce CO2 emissions. Eligible costs include directly preceding planning, cables forming part of the installation and its dedicated business grid connection. Cables belonging to the general distribution network are excluded. Onsite renewable generation and storage of renewable electricity can also be included to address grid congestion.
Categories A and B receive up to 45%; category C receives up to 30%. If the requested grant exceeds €5.5 million, operating profit is deducted from eligible costs before applying the percentage. Operating profit is the positive difference between discounted income and operating costs over the investment's economic life.
VAT qualifies only if you cannot recover it. Other public grants towards the same eligible costs are deducted, except funding provided by the European Commission; EU state-aid limits still apply. Labour costs use one of three methods: full-cost accounting, direct wages with a 50% overhead addition, or a flat €80 hourly wage rate. The second method also uses €80 per hour where work is done without wage costs. Costs incurred before the application are normally ineligible; the framework allows an exception for grants below €25,000 awarded directly at final settlement or where a scheme expressly provides otherwise.
Eligibility
You must be a legal entity established in the Netherlands, applying alone or with other legal entities, for shore power serving seagoing ships in a Dutch port. Pleasure craft are excluded.
- Category A covers terminals with an annual average over the three preceding calendar years of more than 100 container ships, more than 40 ro-ro passenger ships or high-speed passenger craft, or more than 25 other passenger ships. These ships must exceed 5,000 gross tonnes.
- Category B covers smaller terminals with at least 50 seagoing ship calls in the preceding calendar year. The port must meet the relevant three-year average ship threshold above. A port-manager declaration must show that the terminal sufficiently contributes to providing shore power for at least 90% of the port's relevant ship segment above 5,000 gross tonnes. The 50-call test itself has no 5,000-tonne minimum.
- Category C covers other quays or terminals with at least 50 seagoing ship calls in the preceding calendar year, serving CO2 reduction rather than the port's AFIR obligation. AFIR is the EU rule requiring shore-power infrastructure for certain ports and ship types.
Do not start works before submitting the application. Start within six months of the award decision and finish within 48 months of the start date. Make the supply available equally, without discrimination and on market terms to interested users at the quay or terminal. High-voltage systems must meet IEC/ISO/IEEE 80005-1:2019 for design, installation and testing. Onsite renewable generation capacity must not exceed the shore-power installation's maximum nominal output.
The same activity cannot already have received this grant or the 2022–2023 shore-power grant. Undertakings in difficulty under EU state-aid rules, unlawful combinations of aid and applicants subject to an outstanding EU aid-recovery order are excluded. RVO also assesses financing, technical and economic feasibility, ability to deliver on time, reasonable costs, contribution to the programme and whether the work needs subsidy. Unacceptable harm to economic, ecological or social sustainability can lead to refusal.
For a non-AFIR terminal with several quays, ship calls across those quays may be added together for category C.
How to apply
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- Latest intake is closed.
The latest intake is closed. The scheme expires on 1 January 2027, while continuing to govern applications submitted before then. Applications in its recorded rounds used RVO's digital form. Required material includes a project plan, justified budget and requested grant, expected annual CO2 savings, ship-call evidence for the category, and an operating-profit forecast if requesting over €5.5 million. Include the terminal operator's consent if it is not the applicant, and the port-manager declaration for category B.
For an awarded project, use RVO's application-management service to report changes and seek permission before essential changes or delays. Submit annual progress reports and a final report. The advance is at most 80%, paid in successive 30% and 50% instalments.
Request final settlement through RVO within 13 weeks of completion, with the final report. An accountant's audit statement is required at €125,000 or more per participant and project. Retain project administration for five years after final settlement, or the different state-aid period stated in the rules or award. Below €125,000, retain the evidence needed to prove delivery for five years instead. Cooperate with evaluation, where reasonably expected, for five years after settlement; provide annual electricity-supply and estimated CO2-saving data on request during that period.