10/06/2012 - The USS Zumwalt, the lead ship for the DDG-1000 Zumwalt Class of guided missile destroyers and scheduled for delivery in 2013, will not be the U.S. Navy’s first electric warship. That claim belongs to the 36,000-ton USS New Mexico battleship, which was commissioned in 1918 and used electric motors to to drive its propellers.
The Zumwalt will, however, be the the Navy’s first microgrid-based electric warship.
The DDG-1000 design includes plug-and-play advanced power electronics, multi-megawatt motor drives and cutting-edge automation and control capabilities that supplies electricity generated by disparate sources of energy (e.g., wind, solar, natural gas) to propulsion systems and electric weapons and sensors through a common distribution infrastructure.
Platts called this “the ultimate naval power T&D system.” The Navy calls it the Next Generation Integrated Power Supply (NGIPS). Most people call it the “microgrid.” read more>>>
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