Ship&Offshore | Issue 06/2024
Diesel-to-electric conversion
CTV | A crew transfer vessel (CTV) is to have its diesel engines replaced with a fully electric zero-emission Volvo Penta Inboard Performance System (IPS). The result of the retrofit will be the arrival of the world’s first electric crew transfer vessel, Volvo Penta claims. The CTV to be converted is the 20m-long Ginny Louise , a Mercurio vessel. The existing diesel setup will be replaced with a Quad Installation of Volvo Penta IPS 30 paired with electric motors and more than 2MW of battery capacity....