Eidesvik Sees 75% of Fleet Operating on Hybrid Battery Propulsion by 2022
by Ship & Bunker News Team
Thursday April 29, 2021 Offshore shipping company first half of 2022. The company has ordered the retrofit of its offshore wind vessel the
Acergy Viking with a battery system, it said in a statement on its website last week. The retrofit is expected to be completed in the first quarter of next year, reducing the vessel s MGO consumption by as much as
350 mt/year. At an early stage, hybrid solutions were mainly installed on board our supply vessels, but Eidesvik was also early with similar environmental upgrades on several of our subsea vessels,
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Eidesvik’s Acergy Viking becoming eco-friendly April 21, 2021, by Nadja Skopljak
Eidesvik Offshore is set to upgrade its service operation vessel (SOV) Acergy Viking as part of the company’s ambition to reduce its fleet emissions by 50% by 2030.
Acergy Viking will be updated with a battery pack and hybrid propulsion solution, which is expected to bring to a reduction of diesel consumption (MGO) by up to 350 tonnes per year, with a corresponding reduction in CO2 emissions of more than 1,000 tonnes per year.
The conversion of the 14-year-old vessel will be completed in the first quarter of 2022.
Eidesvik stated that the climate and environmental upgrade means that three-quarters of its fleet will operate with hybrid battery propulsion by the first half of 2022.