Land­side Power Plant starts reg­u­lar op­er­a­tion – Power sup­ply agree­ment be­tween HAM­BURG EN­ERGIE, AIDA Cruises and HPA con­cluded

Ham­burg, May 3, 2017 – With the lat­est port call of the AIDA­sol, the land­side power plant at the Ham­burg Cruise Cen­ter Al­tona has started its reg­u­lar op­er­a­tion. Fol­low­ing the suc­cess­ful con­clu­sion of the pilot phase at the end of 2016, this was the first time a cruise ship has been sup­plied with green power dur­ing its en­tire port call and was able to shut down its own gen­er­a­tors.

The land­side power plant’s op­er­a­tion ben­e­fits the en­vi­ron­ment as well as the cruise lo­ca­tion Ham­burg. On the oc­ca­sion of the start of the reg­u­lar op­er­a­tion, HAM­BURG EN­ERGIE, AIDA Cruises and the HPA have en­tered into a power sup­ply agree­ment. “The con­clu­sion of the shore-side power con­tract is a his­toric mile­stone for an eco­log­i­cal power sup­ply of cruise ships in the Port of Ham­burg. I am de­lighted that a ship has been sup­plied with emis­sion-free power last Sat­ur­day for the very first time in the long his­tory of the Port of Ham­burg,” says Tino Klemm, Chief Fi­nan­cial Of­fi­cer and Mem­ber of the HPA Man­age­ment Board.

AIDA­sol will use the land­side power plant twelve times in the 2017 sea­son

“To­gether with our part­ners in Ham­burg, we are tak­ing an­other step for­ward and make an im­por­tant con­tri­bu­tion to the cli­mate pro­tec­tion and air pol­lu­tion con­trol. With the land­side power sup­ply of the AIDA­sol in Al­tona and the LNG sup­ply of the AIDAprima in Stein­werder, we are able to show the en­vi­ron­men­tal-friendly al­ter­na­tives avail­able in Ham­burg,” says Dr Monika Griefahn, Di­rec­tor for En­vi­ron­ment and So­ci­ety [KK1] AIDA Cruises.

Ham­burg En­ergie sup­plies cruise ships with 100% green power

“Thanks to our ex­pan­sion pro­ject for power from re­new­able en­ergy sources, HAM­BURG EN­ERGIE pro­duces as much elec­tric­ity by now as 42,000 house­hold use in a year. The Port of Ham­burg plays an im­por­tant role in this since we sys­tem­at­i­cally ex­pand our local wind parks. The land­side power plant Al­tona is sup­plied with clean power from now on. When cruise ships come to Ham­burg, we here “green power in­stead of ship’s diesel” more and more often. This is great for the cli­mate in Ham­burg – just like our wind power plants are,” says Michael Beck­ereit, Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor of HAM­BURG EN­ERGIE.

Land­side power plant sets stan­dards

The plant pro­vides a power sup­ply with two fre­quen­cies: 60 hertz and 50 hertz. Roughly 75% of all in­ter­na­tional sea ves­sels are equipped with 60 hertz grids, how­ever, only a small num­ber of coun­tries offer power grids with this fre­quency. By of­fer­ing both fre­quen­cies, the land­side power plant sets stan­dards.