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Tech Talk: OSV Charging Station

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Maersk Supply Service, a part of A.P. Moller-Maersk, is launching its offshore vessel-charging venture, Still- strom, to support the decarbonization of the maritime industry by eliminating idle emissions. Together with

Ørsted, Stillstrom will demonstrate the world’s ? rst full- scale offshore charging station for vessels at an offshore wind farm. In Danish, “Stillstrom” means “quiet power” and today it is an early-stage technology spin-out whose full-scale product launch will reportedly be the ? rst-to- market in offshore charging, enabling idle vessels to pow- er from electricity. The ? rst full-scale charging buoy will, as previously announced, be demonstrated with offshore wind leader Ørsted in Q3 2022. The power buoy will sup- ply overnight power to one of Ørsted’s Service Opera- tions Vessels (SOV), thereby supporting Ørsted’s target of

Photo Courtesy Maersk Supply Service climate-neutral operations in 2025. Ørsted will be respon- sible for the grid integration of the charging buoy. • Bathymetry • CTD & Environmental • Current • Sound Velocity • Tide • AUV, ROV & ASV • HYDROGRAPHY • HYDROMETRY • METROLOGY &

SWiFT CTD POSITIONING

Measured CTD, with all the • OCEANOGRAPHY • PORTS, HARBOURS bene?ts of the SWiFT & DREDGING • RENEWABLE ENERGY

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