Seven electric commercial vehicles are now in service at the Port of Milford Haven as part of the organisation\u2019s commitment to reducing its carbon emissions.<\/p>\n
Supplied by Sinclair Van Centre Swansea, the Volkswagen Transporter vans are being used across the port\u2019s estate in Milford Haven and Pembroke Dock.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese electric vehicles offer a greener solution to our transport needs which reduces our environmental impact both in terms of air quality and noise pollution,\u201d said Caroline Thomas, procurement manager at the port.<\/p>\n
Multiple initiatives<\/strong><\/p>\n Ms Thomas said that the port also has a number of temporary charging points and will soon be installing permanent 22 kW chargers and a rapid 53 kW charger at Milford Waterfront in collaboration with Pembrokeshire County Council.<\/p>\n The investment in a fleet of electric commercial vehicles is one of multiple initiatives taking place across the port in a strive to reach Net Zero by 2050.<\/p>\n Tam Bardell, energy development manager, added \u201cIn 2019, we switched our energy to a renewable energy tariff which means all of our electricity usage comes from renewable sources.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201dAs a port we are continuously looking for ways to improve our energy efficiency and have invested heavily over the years in solar panels, LED lighting, heat pumps, insulation and many other smart energy innovations to minimise our carbon emissions.\u201d<\/p>\n The port\u2019s vision for the Milford Haven Waterway is that it will play a vital national role in driving new green growth in hydrogen, floating offshore wind (FLOW), wave and tidal energy generation.<\/p>\n This is already being realised through the \u00a360m Pembroke Dock Marine project, which is part of the Swansea Bay City Deal, the Milford Haven: Energy Kingdom project and through the South Wales Industrial Cluster, which are all supporting Wales\u2019 transition to Net Zero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One port is making a further commitment to carbon reduction by selecting electric commercial vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,34],"tags":[97,163,23,180,181],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy-technology-greenport","category-europe-greenport","tag-electric-vehicles","tag-port","tag-port-equipment","tag-port-of-milford-haven","tag-renewable-energy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1796,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions\/1796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}