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20 minutes ago, hairpin said:

Hi. 

 

Trying to do some planning for a greener cruise, and I'm trying to confirm something. Is the Brooklyn terminal the only east coast port with electric hookup? 

This article was updated in September 2017 and for the East Coast only mentions Brooklyn. https://www.cruisecritic.com/articles.cfm?ID=1214

 

This article says the Brooklyn hook up didn't come on line until 2016, and says Brooklyn is the second East Coast port with an electrical hook up but doesn't name the other port, nor have I found mention of another East Coast port anywhere else. https://patch.com/new-york/gowanus/cruise-ships-docking-red-hook-can-now-plug-onshore-power-grid

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On 8/22/2019 at 9:55 AM, njhorseman said:

This article was updated in September 2017 and for the East Coast only mentions Brooklyn. https://www.cruisecritic.com/articles.cfm?ID=1214

 

This article says the Brooklyn hook up didn't come on line until 2016, and says Brooklyn is the second East Coast port with an electrical hook up but doesn't name the other port, nor have I found mention of another East Coast port anywhere else. https://patch.com/new-york/gowanus/cruise-ships-docking-red-hook-can-now-plug-onshore-power-grid

The only other port on the East Coast that uses "cold iron" power is Halifax.  There may be more, but just not for cruise ships.  The infrastructure for supplying power to cruise ships is vastly different than for cargo ships.  The cargo ships will draw less than 1 Mw of power at 480v (typical industrial power supply), while the cruise ship will need 8-10 Mw at 10,000 volts.

 

There is debate that the implementation of ECA's and the requirement for ultra-low sulfur fuels or scrubbers in those ECA's makes "cold iron" power redundant, and saves on the financial burden to both the shipping company and the municipality (about $1-2 million per ship for a cruise ship to convert, and $10 million per berth for the port).  Also, the ability of the local grid to supply this extra power is a factor.  Places like Seattle, where the power is almost exclusively hydro, makes the choice easy, but if additional power generating capacity is required in places like the East Coast, the finances and politics become more difficult.

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