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Navy, Marines Want More Energy Storage to Supply Power Hungry Warships, Bases
« on: January 30, 2025, 11:05:15 am »
Navy, Marines Want More Energy Storage to Supply Power Hungry Warships, Bases
Gidget Fuentes
January 29, 2025 3:57 PM

 
SAN DIEGO – The Department of Defense last month issued a small contract for a Navy project to develop and provide a modular energy storage system for its newest vessels including its all-electric DDG-1000 class of surface combatants.

The Mountain View, Calif.-based Defense Innovation Unit, working with PEO Ships, awarded the contract, worth $14.2 million, to Siemens Energy for a prototype system called LOC-NESS, or Long Operation Combatant Naval Energy Storage System. According to DIU, “This modularized system is intended to be scalable and compatible with existing and future needs of Navy maritime platforms.”

The work will be done on the Zumwalt-class guided-missile destroyer USS Michael Monsoor (DDG-1001) — LOC-NESS Monsoor— Andrew Higier, the energy portfolio director at Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) said during a panel at the WEST 2025 conference co-hosted by the U.S. Naval Institute and AFCEA.

“The Navy approached us about replacing one of the weapons systems on the DDG-1000 with large-scale energy storage. That’s an electric ship. So we said, yeah, we think we could do that,” Higier said, noting “it was the fastest solicitation-to-award in my portfolio,” with the contract awarded in just over a month.

https://news.usni.org/2025/01/29/navy-marines-want-more-energy-storage-to-supply-power-hungry-warships-bases
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Re: Navy, Marines Want More Energy Storage to Supply Power Hungry Warships, Bases
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2025, 11:43:09 am »
I wonder what the advantages are of having an all electric ship?

This article sure points to one very big disadvantage.
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Re: Navy, Marines Want More Energy Storage to Supply Power Hungry Warships, Bases
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2025, 06:23:12 pm »
Quote from: IsailedawayfromFR on January 30, 2025, 11:43:09 am
I wonder what the advantages are of having an all electric ship?

This article sure points to one very big disadvantage.
I thought we already had electric ships for a long time, electricity provided by nuclear, WTF are we screwing with batteries that like to go kaboom?
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Re: Navy, Marines Want More Energy Storage to Supply Power Hungry Warships, Bases
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2025, 06:36:52 pm »
Quote from: GtHawk on January 30, 2025, 06:23:12 pm
I thought we already had electric ships for a long time, electricity provided by nuclear, WTF are we screwing with batteries that like to go kaboom?
I can't imagine what a hit in one of those battery banks would do. Imagine the amount of energy released as electricity, and then the chemical fire?

I can understand backups for essential systems, but batteries might not be the best option compared to generators.
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Re: Navy, Marines Want More Energy Storage to Supply Power Hungry Warships, Bases
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2025, 06:41:24 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on January 30, 2025, 06:36:52 pm
I can't imagine what a hit in one of those battery banks would do. Imagine the amount of energy released as electricity, and then the chemical fire?

I can understand backups for essential systems, but batteries might not be the best option compared to generators.
They need those mini nuke reactors they’re talking about.
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« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2025, 06:47:31 pm »
Quote from: GtHawk on January 30, 2025, 06:41:24 pm
They need those mini nuke reactors they’re talking about.
Power the whole ship...
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Re: Navy, Marines Want More Energy Storage to Supply Power Hungry Warships, Bases
« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2025, 08:28:25 pm »
Quote from: GtHawk on January 30, 2025, 06:23:12 pm
I thought we already had electric ships for a long time, electricity provided by nuclear, WTF are we screwing with batteries that like to go kaboom?
as I understand it, a nuclear powered ship is not an electric ship, as the reactor generates steam which drives propellers that  drive the ship.  I consider an electric ship as one which uses electric motors to drive the propellers.

Is that the way you understand things?
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