D1.1: Experiences learnt from BESS commercial exploitation and improvement requirements

The deliverable presents the experiences learnt from the fuel savings and emission reductions data gathered from more than 500 BESS installations on various commercial vessels across Europe. The 500 kWh BESS retrofitted onto a hybrid electric vessel and the 4.5 MWh BESS installation on a new hybrid electric vessel are used to quantitively identify the improvement requirements for installations and operations. The further requirements needed of BESS to deal with both increasing importance of safety and further CO2 emission reductions will be identified.