Case studies

Illustrative examples on decarbonization measures, costs and regulations

Full Electric, Container Ship, General Cargo, Decarbonization Vincent Doedee Full Electric, Container Ship, General Cargo, Decarbonization Vincent Doedee

Inside The World's First Electric Cargo Ship - Yara Birkeland

Dubbed ‘the Tesla of the seas’ this fully-electrified, fully-autonomous cargo ship is already making waves. The Yara Birkeland has a 7MWh battery, charged by Norwegian hydro power. She can carry a little over 100 containers. The ship cost about 25 million dollars, about three times a “conventional ship price”, but will nonetheless cut OPEX for Yara by 90%.

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Full Electric, Battery Hybrid, Passenger Ship, Decarbonization Vincent Doedee Full Electric, Battery Hybrid, Passenger Ship, Decarbonization Vincent Doedee

Hurtigruten’s New Hybrid Ships

Designed in 2017 and launched in 2018, Hurtigreten has launched two new hybrid cruise vessels, the MS Roald Amundsen and MS Fridjof Nansen, that can sail fully electric for up to 30 minutes. Not only will it significantly reduce emissions, a hybrid system is also extremely quit. Arctic exploration has never been so much fun!

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Carbon Capture, Emissions Vincent Doedee Carbon Capture, Emissions Vincent Doedee

Northern Lights CCS

According to Equinor, carbon capture and storage will be vital to reach the global climate goals of the Paris Agreement. They are very pleased that the Northern Lights partners and leading European companies have taken the first steps to realize a European CO2 transport and storage system! In simple terms, carbon capture and storage deals with removing CO2 from emission sources and storing it permanently underground, so that it is not released to the atmosphere.

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