Written by
Nick Blenkey
Picture: NES
Copenhagen-headquartered Scandlines has contracted Norwegian Electrical Techniques AS (NES) to ship an onshore charging system for its Puttgarden, Germany, ferry terminal. As we reported earlier, Scandlines’ new zero emissions freight ferry, Futura, at present underneath development in Turkey, will function on the Puttgarden-Rødby route between Germany and Denmark on its supply. The NES contract for the Puttgarden terminal follows its award of the contract to offer the charging resolution for the Rødby terminal in 2022
Underneath this newest contract, NES, which focuses on sustainable vitality design and sensible management programs, will ship the onshore charging system to the Puttgarden ferry berth, and join the tools to the facility grid. It’ll additionally ship extra tools to the ferry.
“Scandlines has a transparent inexperienced agenda and has invested in environmentally pleasant applied sciences for his or her ferry fleet for years. We’re proud that Scandlines has chosen NES to ship one more onshore energy system,” Jan Klokk, BVP gross sales at NES.
NES is already within the strategy of delivering energy, automation, and navigation programs for the Scandlines zero direct emissions freight ferry. With the design and supply of the ferry’s charging options on the German facet of the hyperlink, in addition to the Danish, NES is chargeable for the whole vitality design, from the facility grid to the propeller.
The whole onshore charging station features a 30 MVA grid transformer, medium and low voltage transformers, and switchboards, along with a management system and information assortment system. Collectively, these parts guarantee secure, environment friendly, and dependable operation of each the charging system and the vessel.
“With a battery pack of ten megawatt-hours, equal to the mixed capability of about 150 electrical vehicles, the ferry’s battery capability will probably be among the many world’s largest on a ship,” says Klokk. “Speedy charging is crucial for the ferry whereas it’s unloading automobiles and will take about 12 minutes. Think about charging 150 electrical automobiles with one charger in 12 minutes solely. Whereas quick charging a automobile is one factor, dealing with this quantity of vitality is kind of one other matter” says Jan Klokk.
NES, a subsidiary of HAV Group ASA, will make the most of its three Norwegian amenities in Bergen, Egersund, and Ålesund to design, assemble, and take a look at the onshore charging system. NES has not disclosed the worth of the contract.
