Improving shore power project economics at the Port of Aberdeen

• DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2023.105625
• Publication Date: 2023-04-14T10:19:52Z
• Authors: Simon Bullock; Eliott Higgins; James Crossan; Alice Larkin
• Keywords: Port (circuit theory)

Shore power is one of just a few technologies available to the shipping sector that has potential deliver carbon reductions this decade in line with Paris Climate Agreement. connects ships land-side electricity grids, reducing fossil fuel use while at berth port and same time improving air quality. It also an enabling technology for future deployment electric vessels, allowing battery recharge. Despite being proven technology, global been slow, literature pointing clear economic barriers its uptake. These include high capital costs ports, taxes on lack taxation ships' oils. Yet there gap understanding around how overcome these barriers. Here, case-study Port Aberdeen Scotland used explore case shore-power system can be improved. A multi-criteria analysis techno-economic assessment, coupled port-user supplier engagement, applicable other contexts, sheds light create much-needed acceleration deployment. By building collaborative approach between port, ship operators national government, project viability unlocked more closely align sector's pathway ambitions laid out 2015.