WinGD reported that the company was in discussions with several shipowners and ethanol fuel suppliers, as well as class societies, about its first commercial applications for its two-stroke ethanol-fueled marine engine.
The company said that deliveries of the newbuild engine and retrofit applications will begin in 2027.
Since 2014, the company has studied ethanol fuel which has similar combustion and emission profiles to methanol.
Sebastian Hensel, WinGD’s Vice-President of Research and Development, said that the engines represent “another lower-carbon option for shipowners”.
Other engine manufacturers are also looking at ethanol. Everllence, a German company, announced last week that the first two-stroke engines to run on ethanol were successfully tested in Japan. (Reporting and editing by Jan Harvey; Jeslyn Lerh)
(source: Reuters)
