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Greece’s first electric ferry has been commissioned  to service the 10km run across the Gulf of Corinth between the port of Aigio on the Peloponnese side and the village of Agios (Saint) Nikolaos on the mainland’s Dorida region.

This follows on the heels of last week’s announcement of the first electric ferry in China.

China's first electric ferryWith almost 14,000km /  8,500 miles of coastline, Greece has hundreds, if not thousands, of ferries large and small, fast and not so fast, for visitors and locals going from island to island and from mainland port to mainland port. But until now, it has not had an electric ferry. The aim of the new pilot program is to extend it to all of the country’s short ferry routes.

Project includes offshore hybrid power plant The Agios-Nikolaos pilot is part of a much larger project that includes an offshore power plant to provide the electricity. The plant includes a hybrid power generating system that combines solar, wave and wind technologies.