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The Harbour Authority of Barcelona signs an agreement with ENDESA and Enel in order to develop the first "Spanish green port"
The initiative is analogous to that in course in the Italian ports of Civitavecchia, La Spezia and Venice
March 4, 2011
The Harbour Authority of Barcelona (APB) has signed an agreement with the company ENDESA electrical worker and that Enel Italian in order to develop in Spain a model of "green port" on the falsariga of that about to realization in the Italian ports of Civitavecchia, La Spezia and Venice. The understanding previews the study and the development of solutions for energy efficiency of all the Catalan port and for the supply of electric power from earth to the ships moored in the port of call.
The Harbour Authority has emphasized that the project "green Port" has the objective to reduce the polluting emissions in atmosphere, that constitutes one of the priorities of the agency, and to contribute to the attainment of the objectives established in the "Plan for the improvement of the quality of the air in the metropolitan area of developed Barcelona" from the Generalitat of the Catalogna with the involvement of the Harbour Authority of Barcelona.
Enel, that it stops 92.06% of ENDESA, currently is working to the project "green Port" in the ports of Venice, Civitavecchia and La Spezia. The Italian company has planned a first solution of On-Shore Power Supply (OPS), otherwise dictates of "cold-ironing", for the supply of electric power of the terrestrial net to the cruise ships to the mooring to a dock of Civitavecchia, port pioneer in the Mediterranean Sea for this type of participations in favor of the atmosphere ( on 3 March 2008).
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