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this is an important moment in the port's history
this installation
puts the Port of San Diego into a very exclusive club.
Our port becomes only the second in California to install such a system,
much less the fifth in the world.
Clearly we're on the cutting edge of this technology
and this cold ironing dedication
underscores the port's commitment and the commitment of our board to address environmental
issues.
it is a testament to this agency's environmental stewardship
and our commitment to the community to make it a better place. This system will result
in a significant reduction of pollutants from ships.
Shore power will enable a ship such as this to shut down its diesel engines and literally
plug in
to the San Diego Gas & Electric
electrical source on shore.
Importantly when a cruise ship is plugged into the shore power system for eight or nine hours it's
going to keep approximately one ton
of pollutants out of our air.
We're some three years ahead in this accomplishment of
of when the state will in fact require ships to be shore powered.
This project was made possible by the assistance of the county's air pollution control
district. The district has provided 2.4 million dollars in state grants from the Carl
Moyer program for the Port's Cruise Ship Terminal Shore Power Project.
The benefit to the San Diego County air quality and public health is certainly substantial.
With this project we will reduce emissions by an estimated
four thousand pounds per day
of nitrogen oxides which are a smog precursor
and eighty pounds per day
for diesel particulate matter. Our role in this project was really to put a little extension cord out
here
and uh...
uh... we we did that. You think about it probably was three or four or five years
in the planning
but through great cooperation and teamwork, we built this extension cord in about
ten months. Really there's a lot of winners here but the true winners are our San Diego
community
for having a cleaner environment and just another great industry in our city.
Basically we take the incoming power from the utility at 12,000 volts
and we step it down to
the standard voltage on the cruise ship which is eleven thousand volts.
So for the equipment line up that we have out on the Embarcadero
there's some technical equipment, we step the voltage down and deliver it
through the jib that's behind me into the cruise ship
and we gradually off load the ship
and load up from the shore side onto the ship without power so the passengers never
see basically a flicker of the lights or anything.
This particular ship, the Oosterdam right now she's drawing at about 6 1/2
megawatts. The larger Princess ships for example they'll be 10 to 11 megawatts.
So
it's a small city.
So it's pretty seamless and if everything goes ok, we can do it in just a matter of a few minutes.