What we do

Many environmental studies say that GHG emissions in the MED Area have risen, mainly due to energy and transport. Reducing fossil fuel consumption is at the heart of the strategy to prevent climate change and increase resource consumption efficiency.

Yet, MED ports do not have a common model and tools of environmental planning and clean energy transition: efficient coordination and common tools are lacking.

So RENEWPORT will exploiting the untapped potential of renewable energy sources (RES) in ports, jointly strengthening institutional and operational capacity building related to the key issue of port clean energy transition.

How will we do this?

This will be achieved by increasing the skills and planning competences of ports, stocktaking existing studies and solutions under a new approach.

STEP 1 – TOOLKIT: we will develop a toolkit providing practical advice, guidance and calculation of the potential of RES use for MED ports, based on their energy needs. This will provide MED ports with a powerful solution for planning their clean energy transition.

STEP 2 – PILOT ACTIONS:  project partners will test the use of RES as well as green hydrogen in different scenarios: this will not only concretely improve the performance of port operations on climate change and air quality, but lessons learned will also lead to the definition of a tool for ports as clean energy hubs, a solution replicable in other ports.

STEP 3 – SOLUTIONS UPTAKE: we will establish a long-term cooperation network in the domain of clean energy transition, transferring results at local, transnational and macro-regional level and at the same time building strong cooperation with other projects having a similar scope.