User:Smartergrid/Port Electrification

Port electrification is a systems-based approach integrating shorepower and advanced energy management, communication, and transportation systems with port operations. It reduces onsite emissions with technologies that range from electric forklifts and dredging equipment to shorepowered ships. Shorepower, the most infrastructure-intensive and emissions-reducing aspect of port electrification, enables ships—military, container, cruise, etc.—to transfer their electrical load from diesel-generated onboard sources to land-based sources provided by local utilities. Since the power requirements of ships vary, equipment is needed both on ships and at ports to synchronize the transfer of power.

The smart grid will give ports the ability to actively manage their unique power requirements, and achieve net-zero energy use by incorporating renewable power generation resources and energy management systems such as peak demand response, dynamic pricing, and energy storage.