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aboard, with Wartsila claiming they offer size and weight ad- vantages and many of the paragon characteristics described above: BMS for every module; water-cooled. The Navius 3 will ship in 2023 and will also be aboard Scandlines’ 10MWh

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Giga-battery factories:

The size of vessels sporting ESS has only gotten larger. Oil rigs? Check. Maersk has done that and now intend to put them

Britishvolt’s above and Freyer below on a wind installation vessel (see next issue). Boskalis is retro- ? tting offshore vessels to battery for hotel power and standby modes. The ? rst oil tanker (Asahi Tanker) with an ESS on- board has already bunkered-up a MOL car carrier

Tugs, eco-product tankers, car carriers, high-speed ferries with people and cars aboard … nothing can stop electrochem- ical innovation — except repeat, fast-spreading ? res aboard vessels reported, now, nearly everywhere.

“If the industry does not learn, eventually they will not be able to offer a solution. The regulations are only going to get stiffer. Battery suppliers cannot survive if they hope third par- ty systems will ensure the safety of their products. That is the responsibility of the battery suppliers if they expect to be long

Image courtesy: Freyer Battery Image courtesy: Britishvolt term partners to the industry.”

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