Poseidon Power started as a way for shipowners to have much more environmentally friendly and future-flexible options for their drive train power solutions, making it possible to connect to batteries and DC systems – in fact, any energy source. For more information, please contact Ville Parpala. ville.parpala@switch-staging.exove.eu See our latest marine blogs…
Maritime Journal’s November issue presents “Change is coming,” profiling Asbjørn Halsebakke’s as the man from The Switch.
Yaskawa Environmental Energy / The Switch is featured as one of the lead stories in the latest EME Outlook magazine, one of the largest and most respected business publications in the Europe and Middle East region.
We have delivered thousands of high-speed motors in serial production to several world leaders for their specialized turbo pump and compressors applications. Now, the same technology is introducing motors paired with drives, offering unrivaled cost and size advantages in powers of 100 to 630 kW and speeds of 6,000 to 20,000 rpm.
“Industry observers predict China will be a net importer of rare earth materials by the year 2015. These observers believe China will not be able to supply even their own rare earth requirements for Clean Energy. Non-Chinese participants need to realize that all the stakeholders outside of China need to cooperate with one another to create those supply chains that can be globally competitive and diverse”, said Keith Delaney, Executive Director of REITA, Rare Earth Industry and Technology Association.
The Motorship covers the story about a series of bulk carriers propelled by Caterpillar Marine’s Twin Fin propulsion packages featuring our electric drive train solution.
In the latest Motorship story, Carlo Cecchi shares his thoughts on how the Asian shipping industry is meeting the IMO’s emissions reductions objectives with modern hybrid solutions.
When North Sea Giant was delivered to North Sea Shipping in 2011, it was the world’s most advanced offshore construction vessel. The Switch DC-Hub solution is one of the reasons why this was the case. Read the full expert story from DNV GL.
In this Nor-Shipping’s Ocean Insights interview, Ville Parpala shares his vision of the road ahead.
Vanguard engineers at The Switch, a world-class Finnish company that specializes in machines that transform energy into electricity, have advanced power conversion by making the communication between a wind turbine or solar power plant and the transmission line to which it is connected more effective.
Meet Yaskawa at Hannover Messe: Hall 17, Stand B50.
At the show, Yaskawa will present concrete solutions relating to the topic of “easy” automation.
The Victoria of Wight hybrid ferry is now sailing smoothly. And we are proud to have delivered the hybrid drives, which you can see from a video documentary by clicking the link.