Energy Management In Practice- phase 2

The EMIP 2 project will build upon results from project 200840/I40, EMIP. The EMIP project was launched March 2010 after 5 shipowning companies (Klaveness Maritime Logistics, Wilh Wilhelmsen, Høegh Autoliners, BW Gas and Grieg Shipping) joined forces in the WG 5 constellation February 2009. The WG 5 started it's work based upon a joint will to contribute to the Norwegian Shipowners Association's environmental vision. An extensive experience transfer program related to all environmental effects from shipp ing was launched February 2009 leading to the initiation of EMIP March 2010. The EMIP project's primary goal(effectgoal) is to; "Establish a common platform and ability among a group of ship owners which enable future cooperation within assessment, distr ibution, execution, measurement and evaluation of energy saving measures on ships". The EMIP project will be terminated in May 2010. In the EMIP 2 project the intention is to implement results from EMIP with special emphasis on verifying the identified e xpected savings from various energy efficiency measures based upon scientific analysis.The measures will be verified on 5 to 7 nominated testships by including the ship owning company Solvang ASA also. As such,the goal is to utilize the developed "EMIP" p latform. Beyond this, the project will enhance the developed EMIP platform by improving measuring accuracy and decision support functionality in the performance monitoring systems on testships. Further,the EMIP 2 project also encompass building a robust l ink between the ship owning companies, the Norwegian Marine Technology Research Institute(MARINTEK) and the Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU) with the aim to provide operational data related to energy efficiency on ships for improved res earch in the years to come. As such, the WG 5 group is determined to make a contribution towards the Maritime 21 strategy by mobilizing key players in the Norwegian maritime cluster in an intelligent cooperation.