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BATTERIES hoping to produce 25 GWh a year in installable power and then from a 2-phase, 32 GWh giga-factory. Jensen said at a

Pareto webinar in January that global battery demand would reach 5,300 GWh (mostly vehicles) by 2030, with some 670

GWh in ESS demand. Freyer targets 43 GWh of cell produc- tion by 2025 and 83 GWh by 2028. “We believe demand will outstrip supply by 2025,” he said.

Freyer’s Mo township will have to provide 200 to 3,000 GWh a year of electricity to power a ? rst battery plant. Similarly bur- dened, Britishvolt’s Gigaplant 1 in the Welsh highlands, and

No. 2, in The Midlands, will use solar panels to augment the staggering amount of electricity battery supremacy will require.

They’ll also be trying to outdo Freyer Battery’s 0 kg per

KWh by driving “embedded carbon out of the supply chain” at its Indonesian supplier, BV. “It is BV’s aim to get the carbon content of its battery production to 25kg/KWh from a global average of 93kg/KWh. Freyer, meanwhile, will market their

After founding Corvus and PBES, Brent Perry cells as “the world’s most environmentally friendly” batteries.

now helms Shift Clean Energy, a company taking an integrative approach to battery-stack-making with in-

Who’s in what house BMS software for its patented Shift hardware.

Existing ESS makers, system integrators, yards and electric drive makers that can integrate batteries are picking up cus-

Photo Credit William Stoichevski tomers in all segments.

to go to become “integrated” enough to be sure about safety.

EST-Floattech has its new OCTOPUS series of batteries

Norwegian-American “newcomer,” Freyer Battery, may not nearly ready for deployment to expand from its base of 200 be out to “integrate”, but it is out after scale, with a whirlwind “workboats and submersibles” to “river cruisers and platform build-up to gigawatt size, at least on paper. The newly formed service vessels”. They’ll require system integrators to make but rapidly grown entity has hurriedly hired in Japanese car- new installs safe and optimized. Their modules are serviced industry battery gurus — Freyer mainly aims to serve the auto from the front and said to be easy to control. EST-Floattech industry — and has struck supply agreements with suppliers packs “are easily extracted” for servicing. and potential clients. The future form of its marine offering

While several ESS makers claim peak-shaving perks — can only be guessed at, but its build-up to battery production power returned to or delivered from the battery when needed is noteworthy for being in lockstep with Britishvolt and, in — hybrid-electric drive train makers make it work. Electric

Sweden, with Northvolt, as well as a pact with Maersk to test drive integrator, Danfoss Editron, is busy in July 2022 with “end-to-end logistics” solutions.

an order for a 24-meter, French government buoy-laying ves-

Like Shift, Freyer has secured deals for future supplies of sel with two electric motors powered by 150 kWh batteries. lithium and cobalt cells from Asia (Japan), although a US JV Danfoss Editron, too, controls its system with “sophisticated with 24M will target 50 GWh of batteries in “various sizes software”. So, the electric drive makers, too, have their IP in- and chemistries”, said its CEO, Tom Jensen, who aims to pro- house and have to consider EMI.

duce high-energy-density lithium cells. Mineral supply deals with mining out? ts Glencore (Britishvolt for cobalt), Elkem

Yard as integrator (Freyer for anode active materials) and Indonesian VKTR

Then there are the yards with “electro” prowess, like VARD suggest chemistries — and therefore BMSs — could change.

Elektro, who install battery power. A look at their order book reveals batteries installed in several segments, including an

Gigawatt plant autonomous vessel where ESS would have to be extra reli-

Ship owners might also need to show their batteries are able. VARD jobs are reminder that battery systems charge on “largely” recycled. In Norway and Britain, at least, it has been DC power and are controlled by DC controls. decided that the miner knows best how to dispose of used

It may be on ferries — the large European Ropax ferries mineral elements.

— where hybrid ESS might be best suited. The battery packs

As climate rules tighten, zero-emissions battery production — as Fiskarstrand’s Nydal says — have to be oversized, but could become a thing. If it does, Freyer’s super sales advan-

Stena’s three RoRo ferries ordered this summer will, at 11.5 tage will be batteries produced in pristine Mo i Rana using MWh, be the largest propulsion systems and hybrid vessels hydropower. That’s no small achievement for a giga-factory ever seen. The new Leclanche Navius MRS-3 ESS will be 26 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • August 2022

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