WE Tech Energy Storage Solution Selected for Tanker Newbuilds

by Ship & Bunker News Team
Wednesday February 1, 2017

WE Tech Solutions (WE Tech) has announced that it has received an order for its battery-based Energy Storage Solution for two 17,500 DWT chemical tankers, including an option for two more.

We Tech's Energy Storage Solution will provide the vessels with an energy reserve to be used for electrical load peak shaving and for black-out prevention.

WE Tech is noted to have also been selected to deliver its permanent magnet shaft generator solution to the new builds.

The two tankers are being built for Norway's Rederiet Stenersen AS (Rederiet Stenersen) by China's Taizhou Kouan Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (Taizhou Kouan).

In November, WE Tech announced that it would supply energy efficient permanent magnet shaft generator solutions to Stena Line's four newbuild RoPax ferries - a move We Tech said would enable "tonnes of fuel savings every day."