{"id":2546,"date":"2022-07-28T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2022\/07\/28\/shore-power-action-urged\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:57:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:57:55","slug":"shore-power-action-urged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/energy-technology-greenport\/shore-power-action-urged\/","title":{"rendered":"Shore power action urged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interferry will be focusing on the transition to fully electric or hybrid power when it hosts its 46th annual conference at Seattle, US in October.<\/p>\n<p>The association began worldwide lobbying for the take-up of onshore power supply (OPS) in May. A joint programme to promote the provision and use of OPS was agreed with the European Sea Ports Organisation, and backing from other like-minded partners is set to follow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must drive support for the technologies and facilities that are crucial to reducing greenhouse gas emissions,\u201d said Interferry chief executive Mike Corrigan.<\/p>\n<p>Power topics will take centre stage on day two of the conference with sessions devoted to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Making OPS a reality \u2013 covering connection and charging, ensuring a sustainable transition through industry and government collaboration, design and planning and leading port initiatives.<\/li>\n<li>Fuelling the future \u2013 featuring&nbsp; a comparison of the emissions-free power options, including hydrogen fuel cells and carbon capture.<\/li>\n<li>Propelling efficiency \u2013 explaining how optimising propulsion systems can minimise costly and payload-reducing onboard energy storage requirements.<\/li>\n<li>Batteries leading the charge \u2013 examining&nbsp;&nbsp;fixed and exchangeable onboard energy storage, including a pay-as-you-go swappable battery e-Pod proposition.<\/li>\n<li>Six vessel project presentations \u2013 highlighting electric fast foil ferries, the first US-certified hydrogen fuel cell powered passenger vessel, Sweden\u2019s first large-scale project for a hydrogen powered RoPax and input from Canada and Finland on major green ferry developments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A global trade association is urging governments and port bodies to invest in shore-based power infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy-technology-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546","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=2546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2548,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions\/2548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2546"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}