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    Wärtsilä commissions energy storage systems for Harvey Gulf vessels

    Jan. 11, 2021
    Wärtsilä has ordered energy storage systems from Corvus Energy for four Harvey Gulf offshore support vessels.
    (Courtesy Wärtsilä)
    Corvus Energy will supply Wärtsilä with energy storage systems to retrofit the electric propulsion systems of four additional Harvey Gulf-operated offshore platform support vessels.
    Corvus Energy will supply Wärtsilä with energy storage systems to retrofit the electric propulsion systems of four additional Harvey Gulf-operated offshore platform support vessels.

    Offshore staff

    BERGEN, Norway and VANCOUVER – Wärtsilä has ordered energy storage systems (ESS) from Corvus Energy for four Harvey Gulf offshore support vessels.

    Wärtsilä will integrate the battery-based Orca Energy ESSs, each with a capacity of 745 kWh, into its LNG-fueled hybrid-electric propulsion system. The ESS and Wärtsilä energy management system are expected to allow the vessels to operate in dynamic position mode on a single engine augmented by battery power, to operate more efficiently in transit and other operational modes, and to operate on battery-power only when stationary.

    The four LNG-battery hybrid vessels Harvey Liberty, Harvey Power, Harvey Freedom, and Harvey America will be fitted with the 1100VDC – 745 kWh ESSs in 2021 and are expected to go into service in early 2022.

    The orders follow the successful sea trial of Harvey Energy, the first-ever LNG-battery hybrid retrofit of a platform supply vessel in the Americas.

    (Courtesy Harvey Gulf)
    The platform supply vessel Harvey Energy recently completed sea trials of the LNG-battery hybrid electric drive propulsion system.
    The platform supply vessel Harvey Energy recently completed sea trials of the LNG-battery hybrid electric drive propulsion system.

    01/11/2021