{"id":5561,"date":"2025-08-11T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2025\/08\/11\/solar-powered-push-towards-electrification\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:17:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:17:37","slug":"solar-powered-push-towards-electrification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/energy-technology-greenport\/solar-powered-push-towards-electrification\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar powered push towards electrification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The project will see four photovoltaic (PV) plants constructed across Zierbena Dock, the Santurtzi breakwater, the ferry terminal\u2019s pre-boarding area, and the Olatua cruise terminal car park.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Awarded to a joint venture of Viuda de Sainz, Radimer Servicios Energ\u00e9ticos, Achiles Ingenier\u00eda Fotovoltaica and Solar 360 de Repsol y Movistar, the project is expected&nbsp;to take 18 months, followed by a two-year maintenance period.<\/p>\n<p>When completed, the facilities will collectively generate over 4.25 MWp of renewable energy to feed the port\u2019s BilbOPS port shore power system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The bigger picture<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bilbao\u2019s BilbOPS project, aims to provide onshore power supply to ro-ro, ro-pax, container and cruise terminals, is a cross-cutting and pioneer initiative in Spain, combining power distribution and the production of renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p>It has been designed to include 11 connection points, with a power output of 30 MW.<\/p>\n<p>The first phase, to be completed in early 2026, involves 11 connection points delivering 30 MW, supported by EU Recovery and Resilience Facility funding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/environment-and-sustainability\/bilbao-invites-shorepower-project-bids\/1498742.article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Phase two<\/a>, running until 2027, is backed by Connecting Europe Facility funds and an \u20ac80 million European Investment Bank loan.<\/p>\n<p>From 2027 onwards, all electricity supplied to berthed vessels at Bilbao will come from renewable sources &#8211; either purchased or generated within the port, helping position Bilbao as a pioneer in sustainable maritime infrastructure in Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Port of Bilbao has awarded an \u20ac11.48 million contract to install new solar power plants supporting both its port electrification and shorepower supply goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[637,1087,181,48,166],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-5561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy-technology-greenport","tag-port-electrification","tag-port-of-bilbao","tag-renewable-energy","tag-shorepower-electrification","tag-solar-power"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561","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=5561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5563,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561\/revisions\/5563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5561"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}