Last November, the Port of Oakland celebrated the completion of a shore-to-ship power grid that provides electricity to docked vessels.
Published: February, 2014
Last November, the Port of Oakland celebrated the completion of a shore-to-ship power grid that provides electricity to docked vessels. Until then, vessels burned diesel to maintain power while docked. Now, vessels can shut down their engines and plug into the port’s power infrastructure. This was just one of the changes that the port has put into place to meet its goal of reducing diesel emissions by 85 percent by the year 2020. A recent grant from the EPA has allowed the port to modify two of its smaller cranes to run on hybrid diesel-electric power.
Photo by John Perry/Port of Oakland
