{"id":1031,"date":"2020-06-09T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2020\/06\/09\/battery-power-for-second-danish-electric-ferry\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:48:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:48:30","slug":"battery-power-for-second-danish-electric-ferry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/energy-technology-greenport\/battery-power-for-second-danish-electric-ferry\/","title":{"rendered":"Battery power for second Danish electric ferry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Currently under build by Hvide Sande Shipyard, Steel &amp; Service, when completed the ferry will reduce emissions between Esbjerg and Fan\u00f8 in Denmark for Molslinjen, the largest domestic ferry company in Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We commend the Danish team in this project for showing that environmentally friendly solutions and good business go hand-in-hand,\u201d said Kim Strate Kiegstad, VP Sales Denmark, Germany and Benelux for Corvus Energy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDenmark maintains a strong position in the maritime industry for innovation and environmental stewardship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>All-electric<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When completed, the new ferry, designed by JJohannesson Maritime Engineering and OSK-ShipTech, will be the second all-electric ferry in Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>The 12-minute trip between Fan\u00f8 and Esbjerg is very popular; last year the ferries in operation carried 1.8 million passengers in total so it will have a substantial impact on lowering their carbon footprint.<\/p>\n<p>Molslinjen&#8217;s new ferry will have increased capacity for 396 passengers and 35 cars, reducing wait time in peak periods.<\/p>\n<p>The equipment from Corvus Energy will be delivered in the first half of 2021 and the new ferry is scheduled to be in operation in September 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning with the first zero-emission ferry, Ampere, Corvus Energy\u2019s ESSs have been selected for more than 60 similar short-distance hybrid and all-electric car ferries globally.<\/p>\n<p>The company provides high power energy storage in the form of modular lithium-ion battery systems for marine, oil and gas, subsea and port applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second newbuild all electric ferry in Denmark will be equipped with an energy storage system (ESS) from Corvus Energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy-technology-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions\/1033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}