Erma First’s Blue Connect high-voltage shore energy resolution is designed to seamlessly facilitate a vessel’s connection to a port’s electrical grid.
Perema, Greece, headquartered ballast water therapy specialist Erma First S.A. is entering into the chilly ironing enterprise. It has launched Blue Connect, a high-voltage shore power resolution designed to seamlessly facilitate a vessel’s connection to a port’s electrical grid as a way to energy the vessel’s methods and tools whereas at start.
This allows the ship’s diesel mills to be switched off, with a resultant discount in noise and emissions.
In the Blue Connect system the vessel is linked to shore via the answer’s cable administration system.
Erma First presently presents normal Blue Connect fashions for: RO/RO and ROPax, ferries, container vessels and tankers. Custom-made methods are additionally accessible.
Blue Connect features a energy transformer, which transforms excessive to low voltage, in addition to the required switchgear to guard crew and tools. The operation is managed and monitored by a shore connection predominant management panel. Power changeover helps shore-to-vessel synchronization to keep away from black out upon connection. The system can be built-in to a vessel’s AMS or/and PMS.
“The launch of Blue Connect represents another key technological milestone for the Erma First Group,” stated Konstantinos Stampedakis, managing director at Erma First. “We now boast an array of game-changing engineering solutions and products for the maritime community globally. Protecting the environment has always been at the core of Erma First’s offering. Blue Connect is a highly advanced cold ironing solution that can help significantly reduce emissions in ports around the world.”
