Jeff Bezos' sailing yacht generates enough power for 900 homes per ocean trip
Published on Sep 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM (UTC+4)
by Claire Reid
Last updated on Sep 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM (UTC+4)
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Claire Reid
Jeff Bezos’s $500 million Koru sailing yacht generates enough energy to power around 900 homes during a typical ocean trip.
Koru measures a whopping 417 feet (127 meters), with a beam of 56 feet (17.2 meters).
The sailing yacht has three masts as well as a hybrid propulsion system.
This means when it recently traveled the 4,067-mile journey from Fort Lauderdale to Ibiza, Spain, it generated a tremendous amount of energy.
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Jeff Bezos’s Koru sailing yacht generates a lot of power
Jeff Bezos’s super-sized superyacht was built by Oceanco, the same shipbuilders behind Home Depot co-founder Arthur Blank’s 367-foot-long yacht.
Bezos’s Koru sailing yacht is so large that it’s actually a struggle to find places for it to dock – a pretty nice problem to have, if you ask us.
Like most sailing yachts, alongside its masts, Koru has a diesel engine that allows it to continue moving when there’s no wind and to navigate tricky spots when leaving the harbor.
However, it also benefits from a hybrid propulsion system that allows it to do a ‘full regeneration when she’s under sail’, The Times reports.
The propulsion system includes ‘mini windmills’ situated under the hull that power batteries as it makes its way through the water.
Smart stuff, right?
And the energy it creates is nothing short of astonishing.
According to Luxurylaunches, during a trip from Fort Lauderdale to the Mediterranean, the sailing yacht produced about 28 megawatts of electricity.
This equates to enough energy to power about 900 homes for a day.
To look at it another way, that’s the equivalent of powering 30 homes for a month or more than two homes for a whole year.
See, we told you it was a lot.
The clever hybrid propulsion system would be capable of filling a five megawatt-hour battery five times on the journey of just over 4,000 miles.
If you relied on diesel to produce the same amount of energy, you’d need about 1,900 to 2,380 US gallons.
It costs a staggering amount to keep the superyacht running
Koru costs a reported $500 million, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to keeping the vessel afloat.
The sailing yacht costs an estimated $25 million to maintain each year, while Bezos also splashed out on a support vessel that cost around $10 million.
The support vessel, called Abeona, is bigger than most yachts and also requires its own staff to keep it going.
Talk about hidden costs, but if anyone can afford it’s probably the world’s third richest man.
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Claire Reid is a journalist who hails from the UK but is now living in New Zealand. She began her career after graduating with a degree in Journalism from Liverpool John Moore’s University and has more than a decade of experience, writing for both local newspapers and national news sites. Claire covers a wide variety of topics, with a special focus on cars, technology, planes, cryptocurrency, and luxury.
