The government has a goal of a 70% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2030

The users must drive the ports’ green solutions

The Danish ports are investing heavily in solutions for digitizing systems for managing their energy and resource consumption in these years. Most industrial ports have objectives to reduce the consumption of electricity, water and heat. The way to this often involves software systems that can record and manage consumption.

“All these efforts have been given extra weight in connection with the government’s goal that we must reduce the emission of CO2 by no less than 70% in 2030. The green goals are both ambitious and concrete and will have even greater significance for how the ports must achieve their objectives within the environment and energy”, says Ulrik Østergaard, CEO and owner of Vikingegaarden A / S. Vikingegaarden A/S has developed a system for monitoring operation and consumption at the ports, ProPower, which is currently used at eight of the country’s commercial ports. Here in the autumn of 2020, several product developments are coming which will help to engage and motivate the ports’ end users in the work of reducing, for example, electricity consumption.

“We launch i.a. an app that both makes it very easy to monitor the development of one’s consumption of electricity and water. The app includes all operating functions if you are, for example, a tenant in one of the port’s properties or have docked with your ship. You can, for example, switch e.g. electricity on and off via the app and thus stop accidental consumption”, says Ulrik Østergaard, who adds that the app will also make the system attractive in marinas, where the registration and settlement of energy for the boats will be noticeably simplified.

Read an article about this at Alt om Teknik here .

With the ProPower App you can:

See on an overview map all ProPower equipment you already have access to
See which electrical outlets are available on the ServicePedestal or other ProPower equipment
See the status of ongoing purchases, e.g. have you switched on an electrical outlet and see if it is switched on and how much energy you have consumed so far
See all historical consumption, e.g. how much electricity or water did I use last week and which port the consumption was registered in

The ProPower App is part of the major upgrade to ProPower 4.0, and is intended as the tool of the future for operating all ProPower equipment at ports or companies that use the ProPower IoT system.

The first version that has now been released can display an overview map and consumption data. The next version, which we have already started, has a lot to look forward to, for example you can: