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In the Norwegian port of Bergen the greatest European system will be installed than electric power supply Shore-to-ship
It will be able to serve three cruise ships at the same time
September 24, 2018
The port of Bergen, that it is the main Norwegian crocieristico port of call, has announced that it will be equipped of the greatest system than electric power supply Shore-to-ship who will be able to at the same time to supply coming electric power from the terrestrial net to three ships. According to the forecasts, the new system will be totally operating early in the season crocieristica 2020, but - Bergen has specified the director of the Port of, Johnny Breivik - a system of cold ironing of smaller abilities, in a position to serving a ship at a time, will be activated already in 2019.
The project will be realized by joint venture constituted by the Port of Bergen and energetic group Norwegian BKK. The investment previewed for the system that it will be activated in 2020 piles to about 120 million Norwegian crowns (12,5 million euros), of which about 50 million by the Enova, the governmental bottom constituted in support of the initiatives for the reduction of gases greenhouse and in order to support the energetic transition and the technology for the atmosphere, and the quota remaining by joint venture.
The Port of Bergen has specified that, however, in the time the crocieristico field and the shipowners of the ships that will land Bergen will contribute to support the costs of the Shore system power: "the objective - Breivik has explained - is that all the ships that will berth to the port of Bergen will use renewable energies. So that this becomes a truth, it is necessary to make sure that the feeding of electric power from earth constitutes the privileged alternative from the crocieristiche companies. The crocieristiche companies and the ships that they pollute - have emphasized Breivik - they must be disposed, in the time, to make oneself loaded with the majority of the costs, even if the port of Bergen still depends from the financings of Enova".
In the 2018 port of Bergen it is climbed by 342 cruise ships, 31 in more regarding last year.
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