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Investment projects for the commissioning of the Onshore Power Supply system vary considerably from one case to another depending on many variables. Various agencies and associations have developed tools to facilitate the estimation of this type of projects.<\/p>\n

These simulation tools include differences in incomes and costs due to the number of ships visits, energy demand, the need or not to install a frequency converter, or the dependence of the OPS system on electricity and fuel prices along the operation period.<\/p>\n

Access some of these simulators:<\/p>\n

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  1. OPS Master Plan Calculator<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. The Netherlands Calculator<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. The WPCI Calculator<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    OPS Master Plan Calculator<\/strong>
    \nSpanish National Ports Agency (OPPE) offers a tool for evaluating the investments necessary for the implementation of the Onshore Power Supply system. This tool has been developed within the activities that the OPPE is carrying out to develop the OPS Master Plan for Spanish Ports. The starting hypothesis of the tool are bunker fuel oil and electricity prices, as well as some emission factors and an external costs for them. In addition, the simulator takes account on number of connections at the dock, number of ships supplied (visits and length of stay), estimates the benefit granted by the Ports Law to vessels that connect to the general electric grid and suggests total inversion costs per dock and costs due to vessel adaptation. Tool can be downloaded here.
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