Mayflower Wind, a 50/50 joint venture between Shell New Energies US LLC and Ocean Winds that is developing an offshore wind lease area off the US Northeast coast, has signed an agreement with Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding/Duclos Corporation of Somerset, Massachusetts for the specification, design and manufacture of a Jones Act-compliant, hybrid battery diesel electric crew-transfer vessel (CTV).
The design of the CTV utilizes technologies that will provide significant fuel savings and emissions reductions, including the use of lithium-Ion battery energy storage to create a hybrid vessel that will be a bridge to full electrification.
The agreement will proceed if Mayflower is awarded a contract under the latest Massachusetts procurement for offshore wind.
Other partners in the project include: Incat Crowther to design the vessel; the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) to provide design review and classification; BAR Technologies to enhance the design with its foil optimized stability system, as well as its advanced computational fluid dynamics modelling and simulation; and Corvus to supply its onboard battery energy storage solution.
