Emissions-Reducing Shipping Vessel Buoys

Shipping vessels contribute a significant amount of emissions when it comes to greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and continue to burn fuel even when they are idle, so this offshore charging buoy has been designed to help change this.

The buoy has been developed by Maesrk and Ørsted as a way for shipping vessels to utilize electricity when moored to prevent them from constantly burning fuel. The technology will be shown off by the teams in Q3 of 2022 when it will be installed in a wind farm in the North Sea.

Venture Program Manager at Maersk Supply Service Sebastian Klasterer Toft spoke on the offshore charging buoy saying, "Our vision at Stillstrom is to enable maritime decarbonization, by providing the infrastructure that will allow vessels to charge from clean energy when idle offshore. The mission is to remove 5.5 million tons of CO2 within five years of commercial rollout, additionally eliminating particulate matter, NOx, and SOx."

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