The Coast Guard's ongoing climate measures for the vessel fleet

  • Eco-shipping, consisting of a guideline on energy-efficient vessel operation, extensive training and a trial of an energy measurement system.
  • Environmental considerations in the form of life cycle cost analysis when procuring new vessels.
  • Energy efficiency improvements on the KBV 001 series, for example insulation and LED lighting.
    Hybridisation of the KBV 001 series.
  • A test project to heat one KBV 001 vessel and one KBV 031 vessel using heat pumps on the quay.
  • Purchase of biofuel (HVO100).

Eco-shipping: More energy-efficient vessel operation

The Swedish Coast Guard is working to make vessel operation more energy efficient. This is also called "eco-shipping". Through this work, the Coast Guard increases the climate focus in the management of its operations. It also means that vessels are run in the most environmentally friendly way possible, and that guidelines and manuals support this work. Another important part of the work is to include life cycle costs and environmental considerations in procurements.

Energy efficiency and increased electrification

The energy efficiency work focuses more on technical solutions. Examples are changing to LED lighting, better insulation, using frequency control and heat recovery, or very simple measures such as checking that the thermostats on radiators are not set unnecessarily high. Increased electrification is based mainly on greater use of shore connections and on hybridisation of suitable vessel series.

Operational requirements affect the transition

The Coast Guard has a role in crises, heightened preparedness and war. This places demands on its operations. For the foreseeable future, it is therefore difficult to switch to anything other than diesel and diesel substitutes as fuel. Technical and operational requirements linked to the operations also mean that many alternative fuels do not work for the whole vessel fleet. The Coast Guard's goal is therefore, as a first step, to increase the use of biodiesel (HVO100).