📋 Tender Overview
In line with the EU solid framework for prosperous climate neutral economy and the recent publication of the EU Green Deal where a clear commitment is placed to drastically reduce the greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) associated to the waterborne transport, GREENMOTRIL aims to become a pioneering project in the decarbonization roadmap of European ports. To this end, GREENMOTRIL aims to demonstrate the technical, environmental and economic benefits of implementing a smart self-managed energy community entirely powered by RES in the port of Motril. This approach will allow this port to become the first seaport in Europe able to work completely off-grid thanks to deployment of a 4 MW PV plant, a storage system of 1,55 MWh with grid-forming capacities and frequency supply, an innovative microgrid management system, a communication system based on edge multi-protocol concentrators and a robust cybersecurity framework. This approach will ensure the participation of the end users in the community management providing flexibility services through demand response schemes. This will allow a high replication potential of GREENMOTRIL concept and solutions not only in the European seaport sector (counting with 340 commercial ports) but also in other energy communities. GREENMOTRIL will enable the yearly integration of 6,300 MWh of renewable energy in the port, achieving a GHG reduction of 29,2 ktonCO2 over ten years of operation associated to the daily activity of the industries located in the port and the ships connected to the OPS. Moreover, GREENMOTRIL is closely aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) initiative, particularly, SDGs 3, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14 and 17. The project will be coordinated by CUERVA, a DSO very active on the generation, operation and commercialization of renewable energy with large experience in R&D European projects, APM the owner of port facilities and SIEMENS, a worldwide reference company in the digitalization and automatization of micro-grids
