U.S. Ports face growing pressures...

America’s ports are exploding with activity and increasing volume dramatically every year. The ports need to expand. The ports need to solve infrastructure and intermodal transfer problems. The ports need to expand terminal capacity and container through-put capability. But ports also need to respond to homeland security requirements for reliable power, to enable digital age economic growth in port areas, and as major sources of pollution, to become greener.

The high costs of modern port expansion and development often exceed the availability of funding from traditional Port governance bodies. The issue of providing reliable, high quality electrical power without increasing harmful emissions remains a chokepoint for any port expansion or economic development. Public-private partnerships between private “green” real estate investment trusts and growing ports and their host cities is attractive and sensible, particularly in an era of growing environmental sensitivity.

Port Energy Independence District (Port EID)

• Port EID™ is a user-aggregating organizational concept to manage port emissions and electrical power in a single entity…a big picture approach
• Treats a port entity as a single source of emissions
• A Port EID is particularly recommended when a port area operates under a court restraining order or under court directed solutions to pollution/emissions
• Enables increased ship days in selected ports and economic expansion in and around port districts, while reducing environmental footprint

Pareto's port solutions provide:

• “Cold Ironing” – shore power to ships at terminals, via a trigeneration/Hybrid installation.
• Electrical power to operate terminal equipment
• Cooling for refrigerated warehouses/offices and reliable electrical power for refrigerated containers
• Steam for heating where and when needed
• Back-up electrical power through long-term power purchase agreements to local utility companies
• Incremental implementation sooner, not later, enabling economic growth and environmental protection
• Guaranteed “negative net emissions” and emissions offsets

More information on Pareto's approach to “Cold Ironing”