Wise port & business energy management: Portfacilities, electrical power distribution

Abstract

The paper deals with the relevance of analyzing the necessary development and of proposing a plan for research and remodeling the electrical infrastructures of port facilities. Good energy management principles, as well as electrical distribution architecture have a vital impact on performance of the installed system throughout its lifecycle. The ports are the interface of maritime transport and are integrated in the surrounding land. They are required to arrange their electrical power distribution system, possibly in microgrids that is, as a utility system, appropriate and adequate even to power the ship from shore. Harbors must have an energy master plan and their areas have to be considered as a unique territory. The energy service management for electrical distribution systems has to be carried out like a new occasion of economic business by the port authorities.