Wind Power Returns To Oceangoing Cargo Ships, Finally
Wind power finally comes home to roost in the maritime industry as cargo ships set sail with high tech renewable energy on board.
Wind power finally comes home to roost in the maritime industry as cargo ships set sail with high tech renewable energy on board.
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.
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.
Hyundai Motor Group has entered into a partnership with Wärtsilä to repurpose second-life plug-in vehicle batteries as stationary energy storage products.
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.
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.
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.