Electric Vessels can now be charged at sea using a magnetic system, which is completely wireless, developed by a Norwegian research team, SINTEF, in collaboration with the shipbuilder Vard.
The Ocean Charger Project was built especially for service operation vessels catering to offshore wind farms and also platform supply vessels of the oil sector.
It took into consideration the environmental challenges of offshore charging and replaced traditional charging mechanisms with an encapsulated magnetic coil system rather than using metal plugs.
This system is safe, quick and hassle-free since it allows a ship to keep a distance from the charger.
Giuseppe Guidi, a senior research scientist at SINTEF, said that they undertook many tests and chose a solution that works like a regular electrical contact.
Powering a Ship Without Plugs
Usual plug-based systems can suffer from mechanical wear, corrosion and lead to higher maintenance expenses, which makes them an unreliable solution.
On the other hand, the new “plug-and-play” magnetic system uses inductive technology to recharge directly at sea through encapsulated coils, which
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