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has something no other Heesen that came before her has: a peak-shaving battery system. The cutting-edge technique shows its worth when the captain. “A diesel engine does not like being run underloaded, ” he explains. “You want to keep it running at 70 to 80 per cent. It starts gumming up at 40 to 60 per cent, and you get everything nobody wants: smell, smoke, muck on the water...” Being a new yacht that meets IMO Tier III emission standards, doesn’t have to worry about these ill effects, but her high-tech battery system keeps each generator always running in its happy place by storing excess generator power for peak periods when it’s needed."This, in my opinion, makes the yacht genuinely efficient and more sustainable, ” says Peter van der Zanden, Heesen’s head of design and development.
