Green energy in Bremerhaven
German terminal operator Eurogate recently started up its second wind Turbine at Bremerhaven. The device at the Bremerhaven site is the second the company has put into operation after Hamburg. The ‘green electricity’ generated by the turbine will be used to cover the terminal’s own energy requirement.
Standing 150 metres high, the wind turbine in Bremerhaven has an output of 3.4 megawatts. It will produce an annual energy yield of nine million kilowatt hours, sufficient to load and unload two million containers. Eurogate is the first port operating company to install its own wind turbines.
The terminal operator reports that it has relied on the use of regenerative energies for years, with the goal to lower CO2 emissions per container by 25% by 2020. Eurogate adds that it pursues an environmental strategy committed to ecological and economic goals that is characterised by consistent, systematic energy management.
“Energy management is a key issue at Eurogate,” said Emanuel Schiffer, Chairman of the EUROGATE Group Management Board. “We pursue a two-pronged strategy: on the one hand we are systematically investing in technologies that enable us to generate our own energy, whilst on the other we are continuously lowering our energy consumption by closely monitoring and analysing it and looking for ways to improve energy-related services”.
By Jake Frith
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