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The world’s first electric commercial fishing vessel is ready for commissioning in Norway.

A Corvus lithium polymer Energy Storage System (ESS) with 30 batteries has been integrated with a Siemens propulsion system to power the 11 meter vessel built by Selfa Arctic AS in Norway.

The fishing boat, designed to operate entirely on battery power over a planned ten hour working day, can be charged overnight by plugging into the electrical grid and has an emergency 50kW auxiliary diesel-electric generator.

Norwegian fishing company Øra AS will operate the new vessel, Karoline. It will be commissioned in Trondheim Norway this month and then tested in the demanding conditions off the coast of Tjeldsundet in Northern Norway.

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