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Sanlorenzo and Rolls-Royce have struck an exclusive partnership to develop and build a methanol propulsion system, which will be installed on a prototype Sanlorenzo superyacht, scheduled for delivery in 2026.This agreement with Rolls-Royce was announced during the Cannes Yachting Festival, and is part of the Italian shipbuilder’s sustainability & technology strategies for its “Road to 2030”. The agreement is specifically with Rolls-Royce’s business unit Power Systems with its product and solution brand MTU for the installation of hydrogen propulsion systems obtained from methanol.The news follows on from its partnership with Siemens Energy, signed earlier this year, and the two systems will work in direct collaboration. Sanlorenzo teamed up with Siemens Energy for the integration of fuel cells powered by hydrogen obtained from methanol to generate electricity on board yachts between 24 and 80 metres. This system will be seen as early as 2024 and will be equipped to a 50 Steel superyacht, commissioned by Massimo Perrotti, CEO of Sanlorenzo, for his personal use. Read: Breaking: Sanlorenzo to build 50m superyacht equipped with hydrogen fuel cells As Sanlorenzo reports, “The use of green methanol, produced with electricity from renewable sources and with CO2 captured from the atmosphere, allows the generation of " carbon neutral " power: the amount of CO2 released into the air in the combustion process is equivalent to that subtracted from the environment for the production of methanol.”