Sustainable Port Horizontal Transportation: Environmental and
Electrifying port horizontal transportation is constrained by downtime and deadheading from fixed charging/swapping systems, large battery sizes, and the lack of integrated decision tools
Ensuring availability of these electrical resources to meet loads which are intermittent and uncertain is becoming a critical port function. It requires investment in multi-vector energy supply chains, energy storage in ports and their associated energy management systems.
To minimize the dependence on grid-supplied electricity, ports are also investing in renewable generation notably PV solar on warehouse roofing and parking areas. Energy storage is also needed to optimize utilization of in-port generation and avoid curtailment when generation exceeds the available demand.
ESSOP has explored two ways in which ports can minimize their energy costs by using energy storage: • Optimising how to use PV solar generation to offset grid electricity. The wholesale price of energy varies every half-hour, and on a time-of-day tariff this variation is passed onto users.
In many cases, however, battery storage will be beneficial: allowing the port to optimize its procurement of electricity under a time-of-day tariff, to reduce its peak load on the grid connection and to optimise use of on-site renewable generation, notably PV solar.
Electrifying port horizontal transportation is constrained by downtime and deadheading from fixed charging/swapping systems, large battery sizes, and the lack of integrated decision tools
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Why is energy storage a critical port function? Ensuring availability of these electrical resources to meet loads which are intermittent and uncertain is becoming a critical port function. It requires investment
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How can ports reduce the dependence on grid-supplied electricity? To minimize the dependence on grid-supplied electricity,ports are also investing in renewable generationnotably PV
Case Notes from International Ports European cargo terminals: straddle carriers already using containerized charging solutions to sync with operator break schedules. Asian bulk ports:
Ensuring availability of these electrical resources to meet loads which are intermittent and uncertain is becoming a critical port function. It requires investment in multi-vector energy supply
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