HNordic
We Did Not Learn This From a Textbook
Most companies selling energy solutions to the maritime sector understand the technology. Very few understand the ship.
HNordic is different. Our founder Rune Holm spent decades as a working marine engineer before he ever sold an energy system. He held the spanner. He stood the watch. He diagnosed faults at three in the morning in the middle of the North Sea. That background is not a footnote in our credentials. It is the foundation of everything we do.
The experience behind the offer
Rune's career spans some of the most technically demanding environments in maritime and industrial energy. As chief engineer at the Port of Ystad, he was responsible for operating the world's largest shore power plant at the time. A facility of that scale demands more than theoretical knowledge. It demands an understanding of how power infrastructure behaves under real load, real weather, and real operational pressure.
As project manager on the construction and completion of two ultra-modern offshore service vessels, Rune sat inside a four-person management team from keel to delivery. These were not standard builds. Innovative hull design, a new-generation bulb bow, diesel-electric propulsion, and state-of-the-art power management systems. Overseeing that process from the inside means understanding not just what a system is rated to do, but how it actually performs when everything around it is also new.
LNG steam
His time aboard LNG steam vessels added a further dimension that almost no one in this sector can claim: deep operational knowledge of large steam power plants, advanced turbine technology, steam-driven pumps and winches, and the full process chain from LNG storage through gasification and consumption. That category of hands-on experience is genuinely rare. It may be unique at this level of seniority in the energy infrastructure space.
Why this matters for you
Rune has said it plainly, and it is worth saying plainly here too: a leader who does not know what the worker does in practice is not fully leading. If you are building a ship, you should understand every system on it. If you are advising on energy infrastructure for vessels or port facilities, you should have operated that infrastructure yourself.
That is the standard we hold ourselves to at HNordic.
When we assess a vessel for vertical wind integration, we are not running a desktop study. When we design a shore power or battery storage solution for a port or terminal, we are drawing on direct operational knowledge of what works under load, what fails under pressure, and what the crew actually needs from a system day to day.
No sales layer. No consultancy distance. Just people who have been there, applying that knowledge to the problems you are trying to solve now.
What we offer
VAWTs generate power in the variable wind conditions that characterise real sea passages. Lower cut-in speeds, no orientation requirement, viable on deck and superstructure installations. We assess your vessel class, route profile, and power demand, and tell you what the numbers actually look like.
Peak shaving, auxiliary power reduction, shore power integration, and hybrid propulsion support. Designed around your operational profile, not a standard product sheet.
Drawing directly on Rune's experience at Ystad, we advise port authorities and terminal operators on shore power design, grid connection, and the transition from diesel auxiliary to grid-supplied power at berth.
The gap we are closing
The maritime sector is under significant pressure to decarbonise. The technology exists. The regulatory direction is clear. What has been missing, in most of the conversations we see, is someone who understands both sides: the energy infrastructure and the operational reality of the vessel or facility it serves.
That is the gap HNordic was built to close.
HNordic. Energy infrastructure built by people who have operated it.
If you are a shipowner, port operator, or terminal manager looking at your energy options, we are probably the most operationally credible conversation you will have.
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