Norway-based shipowner and operator AquaShip/Intership has contracted HAV Group?s business area for energy design and smart control systems to deliver a deck-based battery energy storage system to the Grip Explorer wellboat. Under the contract, HAV Group?s subsidiary will provide a containerized energy storage system that consists of a ?Quest? battery charger with 1,250 kW capacity; a 994 kWh battery package capable of operating in peak shaving, spinning reserve and harbour mode; control system; transformer; and upgrading of the current black out safety system (BOSS).

The company will also support with commissioning of the deck-based system. The company will deliver the equipment during 2024. It will manage the project from its headquarter in Bergen, Norway.

AquaShip/Intership will install the equipment on board the vessel Grip Explorer, which is currently being converted from an offshore supply vessel to a 3,500 m3 live fish carrier. HAV Group?s contract party is Norwegian Electric Systems AS (NES), which has operations in Bergen (HQ), Egersund and Ålesund in Norway, and Istanbul, Turkey.