- Company to subject offshore wind service vessels using hydrogen as part of the company’s decarbonisation efforts.
- Will begin the testing of the world’s first hydrogen-powered crew transfer vessel (CTV)
Vestas Wind Systems, a Danish wind turbine manufacturer, has revealed that it will subject an offshore wind service vessel using hydrogen as part of the company’s efforts to cut its carbon emissions in its operations toward achieving climate neutrality by 2030.
Vestas, as a part of a pilot programme in collaboration with Windcat Workboats, will begin testing what is called the world’s first hydrogen-powered crew transfer vessel (CTV). This will be done at the 370 MW Norther Wind Farm in the Belgian North Sea from July 15 till the end of the year.
The vessel was developed with Windcat Workboats’s sister company CMB.TECH. It is to be powered using a dual-fuel solution and is capable of running in combination with marine gas oil. The vessel is expected to be fuelled mostly by grey hydrogen, but Vestas hopes to use the pilot to deliver a pathway for green hydrogen once it is confirmed mature.
The pilot programme will aid Vestas in examining what approaches are scalable for the use of hydrogen. The study aims to study the opportunities and limitations of hydrogen-fuelled vessels in everyday operations. The company explained that carbon emissions related to offshore operations now represent one-third of its scope 1 and 2 emissions. At the same time, the new CTV could reduce emissions by 37% compared to a traditional vessel.