{"id":397,"date":"2018-10-22T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2018\/10\/22\/barrier-to-take-up-of-shoreside-power\/"},"modified":"2018-10-22T12:37:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T11:37:00","slug":"barrier-to-take-up-of-shoreside-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/terminal-operations\/barrier-to-take-up-of-shoreside-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Barrier to take-up of shoreside power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Kingdom Major Ports Group chief executive Tim Morris has revealed to <em>Port Strategy<\/em> that a quote for onshore power for one of its members put the payback period at over 100 years.<\/p>\n<p>Added to this, the \u2018use or lose it\u2019 approach of distribution network operators means that even if a port has paid for costly energy network upgrades, unless that capacity is used on a relatively frequent basis the port will lose its access.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClearly that\u2019s a significant concern, given the low level of demand currently and its intermittency\/spikiness over the short and mid-terms,\u201d said Mr Morris, discussing the issue for a feature in November\u2019s <em>Port Strategy<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n<p>With ports striving to be greener through the increasing provision of onshore power supply for vessels alongside and through switching equipment from diesel to electric, the supply\/demand balance has become critical.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPort equipment will become more electrified. And more data-driven business models may well see increased demand for power. That is even before you incorporate ship-to-shore power connectivity,\u201d said Mr Morris. \u201cThis will add substantial \u2018peaking\u2019 demand on top of the higher \u2018baseload\u2019 demand from the port itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To get your copy of <em>Port Strategy<\/em> first, request your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/aboutus\/subscribe\/single-copy-offer\" target=\"_blank\">free copy here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prohibitively expensive shoreside power projects are restricting the widespread take-up of plug-in solutions at global ports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terminal-operations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","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=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}