The \u20ac12.2 million project at the MSC Terminal, awarded to Danish engineering firm PowerCon, will allow cruise vessels to plug into onshore power while docked, cutting emissions and increasing the use of renewable energy across the port.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe MSC terminal OPS is scheduled to come on stream in 2027, along with the substation that we will use to deliver 100% renewable electricity to all terminals,\u201d said Ana Ar\u00e9valo, head of the Port of Barcelona\u2019s shorepower unit.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will be a pivotal year for electrification of the Port of Barcelona wharves.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sustainability focus<\/strong><\/p>\n The MSC terminal, which opened earlier this year, was built with sustainability in mind and was designed and built to be pre-equipped for OPS installation.<\/p>\n PowerCon will handle all civil works and cabling necessary to connect the terminal to the new power distribution centre.<\/p>\n This development is part of Barcelona\u2019s wider Nexigen Plan, which aims to transform the port\u2019s energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n With nearly \u20ac200 million in investment, the plan includes operational OPS at the BEST and Grimaldi terminals, already supplying power to container ships and ferries in pilot phases.<\/p>\n Barcelona\u2019s port electrification efforts aim to position the city as a leader in clean cruise tourism and sustainable maritime transport in the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Port of Barcelona has launched construction of its first onshore power system (OPS) for cruise ships,\u00a0marking a major milestone in the port\u2019s port electrification strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,34],"tags":[296,496,637,203,1384,48],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-5467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy-technology-greenport","category-europe-greenport","tag-cruise","tag-ops","tag-port-electrification","tag-port-of-barcelona","tag-powercon","tag-shorepower-electrification"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5467","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=5467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5469,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5467\/revisions\/5469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5467"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}