Five quarters webinar: Wind technologies for cleaner shipping
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Green electro-fuels are needed to achieve zero carbon shipping. However,
green fuels are expected to be significantly more expensive than fuel oil per
energy equivalent. Hence, fuel savings and wind assisted ship propulsion -
offering free non-polluting energy delivered directly to the ship at sea - will
become financially attractive as part of the green transition and should be
integrated in EU’s sustainable and transformative growth strategy for a
resource-efficient and climate-neutral Europe by 2050.
The ambitions in EU Green Deal are supported by
the EU Interreg project WASP: Wind Assisted Ship Propulsion (https://northsearegion.eu/wasp/) that installed several wind technologies on
large commercial ships and conducted third-party validation to document fuel
savings. These fuel savings confirm earlier studies and that wind assisted ship
propulsion is important to decarbonize shipping and thereby make shipping the
green transport of the future. However, several market and non-market barriers
(lack of information, conservative industry, business structure, focus on short
term profit etc.) are blocking uptake of wind technologies. How do we overcome these barriers?
The program for the five quarters webinar: Wind technologies for cleaner
shipping
On this webinar you will hear different perspectives on wind technologies for cleaner shipping. Some of the following specialist will be presententing on this webinar: