Bigger and better batteries for marine use were on display at the E&H Marine Expo in June this year. For example, battery suppliers such as Corvus Energy now offer large cruise vessels the possibility of operating a day or more in a zero-emission ocean location – a huge benefit. Shipowners and regulatory bodies are welcoming…
Reaching net zero by 2050 is perhaps the biggest challenge for humankind ever! Yaskawa Environmental Energy / The Switch has always been developing technologies and products that enable our customers to provide solutions that contribute to the journey toward net zero.
Asbjørn Halsebakke participated in this year’s Electric & Hybrid Marine Virtual “Live” event, presenting our Poseidon Power offering and focusing on the DC-Hub for building the ships of the future.
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…
On June 1, 2020, Yaskawa Environmental Energy / The Switch signed a contract with Caterpillar® (Cat) to deliver an innovative package of electric drive train technology for a series of bulk carriers. The ships will feature Cat Marine’s Twin Fin concept, offering optimal reliability, efficiency and performance, with The Switch technology at the heart of…
This is my first opportunity to write in our newsletter as the Division President of Yaskawa Environmental Energy (EED) and Chairman of the Board of The Switch. Needless to say, I am pretty excited about this new and challenging role at the company.
In 2018, the offshore wind market grew by 0.5% to 4.49 GW of new installations, and the total installed wind capacity saw an increase of 9.6% compared to the end of 2017. So, what kind of effect this had on our ongoing production efforts?
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Despite the global economic downturn, the wind power industry continued to grow in 2009 and The Switch once again had a very busy and successful year.
We challenged the industry, initially by making PMG technology the preferred choice and now by enabling optimized PMG and FPC packages to be commercially
available.
