January 14th, 2021 | by Johnna Crider
The European Commission's Horizon 2020 Program is funding a swappable container waterborne transport battery. Called Current Direct, this program plans to revolutionize the way goods are moved by water
June 25th, 2020 | by Cynthia Shahan
A few weeks ago CleanTechnica covered Wärtsilä's new emissions-free barge, with interchangeable energy containers. Before that, it was tugboats (in 2017). Soon, we may find out how captivating it would be to get a glimpse of electric cars on electric ferries!
June 7th, 2020 | by Cynthia Shahan
The technology group Wartsila and some partners have developed an emissions-free barge concept
October 15th, 2019 | by Tina Casey
Wind power finally comes home to roost in the maritime industry as cargo ships set sail with high tech renewable energy on board
June 6th, 2019 | by Charles W. Thurston
The island of Curacao began a solar net metering program that has inspired close to 800 residential and commercial installations, operating at a cost of 10% less than the fossil fuel generation they replaced, according to a new report by Ronald Lieuw-Sjong at Next Step Consulting, based in Curaçao
January 25th, 2019 | by Charles W. Thurston
Caribbean island Bonaire is adding a 6 megawatt energy storage system to help balance its solar and wind assets with backup diesel generators, opening up the potential for greater renewable penetration. Additional solar will expand on the 2015 pilot project that included close to 800 solar panels
July 10th, 2018 | by Kyle Field
Hyundai Motor Group has entered into a partnership with Wärtsilä to repurpose second-life plug-in vehicle batteries as stationary energy storage products
December 26th, 2017 | by James Ayre
Wärtsilä has won its first contract in Europe for the deployment of its innovative HY 2 hybrid power modules, a solution allowing for hybrid electric operation of tugboats
December 9th, 2017 | by James Ayre
Wärtsilä, a hybrid tugboat developer (amongst a great many other things), has designed a version of the new HYTug tugboat specifically for the potentially highly lucrative Chinese market
September 21st, 2017 | by James Ayre
Wärtsilä is introducing a new portfolio of tug boat designs, dubbed the HYTug series, that make use of the company's hybrid propulsion technology and were created with "environmental sustainability" in mind, according to a new press release
