{"id":8155,"date":"2011-02-23T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2011\/02\/23\/automatic-shore-power-beats-the-cold\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:39:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:39:42","slug":"automatic-shore-power-beats-the-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/equipment\/automatic-shore-power-beats-the-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatic shore power beats the cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PLUG (the acronym \u201cfor Power Generation during Loading &amp; Unloading\u201d) shore power technology is based on a self mating and disconnection system that works by pressing a button on board the ship. The manufacturers, NG2, explains that beyond comfort and speed, it is a safe option since there is no direct handling of high voltage cables.<\/p>\n<p>For this application, PLUG will provide both the ship side and quay side high voltage (11,000V) connection interfaces with a power exchange capability of more than 4 MVA.<\/p>\n<p>Further, to cope with Oslo port winter conditions, specific technical solutions have been implemented, such as a thermally insulated and heated storage of the quay side high voltage connector to avoid any exposure to ice\/snow build up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oslo port terminal and the \u2018Color Magic\u2019 ro-pax are to be equipped with a compact, automatically linked shore-power system, which means less exposure for port personnel to the often harsh conditions on the quay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,63],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-8155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-equipment","category-products-services"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155","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=8155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8157,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155\/revisions\/8157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8155"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=8155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}