BMT Nigel Gee, one of the world’s leading independent design consultancies for advanced yachts, and ECOsuperyacht, a specialist in providing energy efficiency & emissions management services through its ECO Seas Programme, have announced their collaboration.
The Ruea 75m yacht - a Recent BMT Nigel Gee Design Project
ECOsuperyacht and BMT Nigel Gee, a subsidiary of BMT Group, will design a portfolio of operational and technical modifications that can be easily implemented to help reduce a yacht’s energy consumption. BMT Nigel Gee will also work with ECOsuperyacht and its clients to provide feasibility studies in order to assess the impact of undertaking such changes. This will include the development of models to highlight the expected energy efficiency savings, emissions reductions and cost benefits. Adopting these modifications will help clients achieve efficiency improvements of up to 15% for their yachts which can produce savings running into hundreds of thousands of Euros a year.
Richard Franklin, Managing Director of ECOsuperyacht says: “We are aware that a number of owners and captains are already offsetting carbon emissions from their yachts each year, which is obviously a great commitment on their part. However, this involves an additional cost each year placing an additional burden on operating budgets that are already high and continue to rise. We want to turn this around and make carbon neutrality pay for itself.”
James Roy, Yacht Design Director of BMT Nigel Gee states: “The key to becoming truly environmentally friendly in operation is through taking a technically led approach to making yachts more carbon neutral. Together with ECOsuperyacht we aim to help clients understand and implement relatively low risk, technologically proven and inexpensive measures, all of which will help to improve efficiency. A key part of this process is being able to adequately quantify cause and effect so that efforts can be focused in the areas that will deliver the best results.”
With oil prices continuing to rise, environmental legislation becoming tougher and social awareness of the impact of energy intensive superyachts increasing, this partnership will prove invaluable in helping to deliver improved energy efficiency and reduced emissions from superyachts.
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More About ECOsuperyacht
ECOsuperyacht provides energy efficiency & emissions management services to superyachts, aiming to deliver efficiency improvements of up to 15% on our client’s yachts. Our process starts with a detailed 100 point in water survey and sea trials carried out on our behalf by Ward & McKenzie. We then work in collaboration with BMT Nigel Gee, to assess the potential for making efficiency improvements using a combination of technical and operational changes. This analysis is incorporated into a report to the owner, captain, engineer and management company, setting out a target for overall efficiency improvement, together with a series of recommendations designed to enable the yacht to meet this target.
Not only does the owner enjoy a significant reduction in running costs, but their yacht will be in a much better position to mitigate possible regulation of marine CO2 emissions in the EU, which we see as increasingly likely now that aviation emissions within the EU are to be regulated from 2012.
ECOsuperyacht covers the cost of the initial survey and optimisation study. In return, our clients enter into an agreement to offset their CO2 emissions through us for the duration of the programme. The cost savings available usually run at 3-4x the cost of carbon offsetting, so the owner comes out ahead financially and makes his yacht 100% carbon neutral at the same time, making carbon neutrality pay for itself.
ECOsuperyacht SL is based in Palma de Mallorca and is run by Richard Franklin, a former superyacht captain himself as well as being a carbon industry expert with a masters degree in environmental technology.
More About BMT Nigel Gee
BMT Nigel Gee, based in Southampton, UK, is one of the world’s leading independent design consultancies offering a vast portfolio of services for advanced and specialised ships and boats, from initial concept to detailed design. With an established background in yachts, commercial and naval craft, and an unrivalled scope of technical capability, the company utilises state of the art technology to provide innovative design and consultancy for an international client base.
