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"Two Danish companies are exploring the possibility of integrating offshore
wind with marine electrification – essentially positing the deployment of
charging infrastructure for battery powered vessels at offshore wind farms.
Stillstrom, a spin-out from Danish shipping and logistics company A.P. Moller
Maersk Group, is a marine technology leader delivering offshore power and
charging solutions, which describes its mission on its website as reducing
“vessel-related greenhouse gas emissions by enabling offshore charging and
ensuring that battery powered vessels have access to uninterrupted power supply
while anchored.”
The company claims that their offshore power and charging technology is capable
of acting as “an offshore charging point to hybrid and electric vessels, or as
a reduced emissions anchorage zone to the thousands of vessels idling outside
of ports on any given day.”
In order to demonstrate the promise of its technology, Strillstrom announced on
Tuesday that it would partner with the Port of Roenne, on the Danish island of
Bornholm, to author a joint white paper exploring how offshore wind could be
integrated with maritime electrification.
The new study,
Energy Island Bornholm Powering Maritime Electrification,
which is expected to be published in the first quarter of 2026, will aim to
examine how renewable power production and future grid capacity can support
charging solutions for electric ferries, cargo vessels and offshore service
vessels.
Specifically, the white paper will centre its premise on the development of
marine charging facilities as part of the envisioned Bornholm Energy Island,
and how this integration could serve as a potential blueprint and scalable
roadmap for ports and offshore hubs preparing for the next wave of maritime
electrification.
Bornholm, a Danish island off the east of Denmark in the southern portion of
the Baltic Sea, was designated in 2020 as central to one of two so-called
“energy islands” the government of Denmark has committed to build by 2030.
The natural island is also central to one of the busiest shipping corridors in
Europe – given its location central to not only Denmark, but Sweden, Finland,
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Germany.
Choosing to centre an energy island at Bornholm was also bolstered by existing
plans to use the island as a natural interconnection point between Poland and
Denmark, making the decision to gradually build up offshore wind farms on the
surrounding sandbanks a natural expansion of those plans."
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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