To limit power outages and make your home more resilient, consider going solar with a battery storage system. Photo: Artemis Technologies map: Britain Express Read more: The world’s most powerful tidal turbine launches in Scotland Artemis doesn’t have 50-passenger vessel specs on its website, so we assume it’s building one specifically for this project. That pilot is expected to launch in 2025. It will operate a service up to five times a day around the eastern islands of Eday, Stronsay, Sanday, and Westray. The second vessel in the pilot will be significantly larger, carrying 50 passengers plus cargo. The EF-12 pilot is expected to start in March 2024, and charging infrastructure is expected to be installed this winter. Check out the EF-12 Workboat being tested in the North Channel Sea: Not only does hydrofoiling produce less drag, thus saving energy, but the electric hydrofoil ferry is also going to provide a much smoother ride in Orkney’s rough waters, where the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea meet. An electric drivetrain integrated into the hydrofoil propels the vessel. The 12-meter (39-foot) long EF-12 has a 52-nautical-mile range at 24.5 knots and a charge time of one hour. Artemis’s EF-12 Escape water taxi will carry up to 12 passengers between Kirkwall, Orkney’s main town on the Mainland, and the inner north isles of Shapinsay, Rousay, Egilsay, and Wyre in a year-round daily service. The Orkney Islands are 10 miles off the northern tip of Scotland, and 20 of the 70 islands are inhabited. ![]() The Orkneys are launching their electric ferry pilot with Belfast-based Artemis Technologies after being awarded £15.5 million in funding from the British government. ![]() Scotland’s Orkney Islands will pilot two electric hydrofoil ferries that will commute between its outer islands in a three-year trial.
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