On December 7, Asbjørn Halsebakke was a guest speaker at Electric & Hybrid Marine Expo USA & Canada Virtual ‘Live,’ presenting new concepts for powering electric vessels and his views of how the world can become a better place to pass on to future generations.
A study we made during summer 2021 quantified impressive permanent magnet (PM) machine efficiencies for vessels like LNG and LPG carriers that often utilize slow-speed, direct-driven in-line shaft generators producing electrical power from two-stroke main engines.
The number of companies seeking an exceptionally energy-efficient drive train solution for a challenging turbo or other high-speed application ramped up significantly. Suitable conventional electric motor drive systems still remain limited or even non-existent today.
To further develop high-power electrical drive trains, Yaskawa Environmental Energy / The Switch recently began a research project with Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (LUT).
Shipping is facing a big journey to reach zero-carbon operation by 2050. To find new ways and explore innovative solutions, the BS Group arranged a two-day-long Ship Propulsion Compliance virtual conference.
In a move to gain independence in manufacturing wind turbines, Germany-based PROKON selected The Switch as its partner for its key permanent magnet generators and full-power converters. This marks a significant start to cooperation for both companies.
For The Switch, this is the second contract with a German customer for a direct drive PMG in the power range of 3 MW. For PROKON, this opens up new market opportunities and strengthens the company’s single-source wind power park portfolio.
The Switch, a provider of megawatt-class permanent magnet generator and full-power converter packages for wind power and other new energy applications, announced today that it has signed a new contract to continue delivering its FPCs to Goldwind.
Goldwind, one of the world’s largest wind turbine manufacturers, is currently increasing its presence in the US market. The Switch, based in Finland, has been a preferred supplier to Goldwind for the past five years.
Yaskawa Environmental Energy / The Switch is one of four companies in Norway to push green shipping forward by taking action in the Norwegian Catapult’s program to develop test centers.
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.
The fight against the coronavirus is taking a lot of extra time from all of us. But we at The Switch are well positioned to get past these temporary difficulties. Our factories are keeping up 100% production capacity. And we continue delivering our products as promised.
What if it were possible to have all the comforts of power on a superyacht while going green?
It’s a challenging endeavor, yet one that’s more and more feasible these days.
During 2011, permanent magnet machine manufacturers experienced moments of fear. The prices for rare earth materials were spiraling upwards uncontrollably. Since then, the situation has stabilized to a level slightly higher than before the crisis. But what’s the overall situation right now?