Ground broken on Scottish shore power project
Scotland’s Port of Aberdeen has begun work on a £4 million (€4.7 million) shorepower system that will be able to ower seven vessels simultaneously, the operator says.
The electricity for the vessels will come from Scotland’s grid so that marine engines are switched off while they are at berth.
The shore power system is being installed by PowerCon and will include connecting the modular shore power system to the grid, as well as establishing quayside connection points via mobile cable reels.
Two areas of the port’s North Harbour, Albert Quay West and Commercial Quay West, already have shore power facilities, and these will be added to at Albert Quay and Means Quay.
Aberdeen says it wants to be the UK’s first ‘net zero’ port, although Belfast would probably disagree, with its own aims of hitting that target said to be 10 years before that.
The project, a demonstrator project that has been awarded funding from the UK Department for Transport’s Zero Emissions Vessels and Infrastructure (ZEVI) scheme, will evaluate both land-side and vessel-side power infrastructure construction and performance, along with a commercial analysis to assess the financial and socio-economic benefits for the port and its stakeholders.
The Port of Aberdeen is leading an industry and academia consortium that includes Connected Places Catapult, Tidewater Marine UK Ltd, OSM Offshore, The University of Manchester’s Tyndall Centre, Buro Happold and Energy Systems Catapult.
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