An Energy Management System for Green Ports

Port areas, acting as hubs for energy production, storage, distribution, and high consumption, can be key players for the energy transition and reduction of emissions. In fact, managing renewables, storage systems, electric vehicles and boats can be integrated with logistics operations to satisfy energy demands and to provide support to the distribution system operator. The aim of this paper is to present a new real-time Energy Management System (EMS) for port areas (with specific reference to touristic ports), which can integrate sensors and technologies in field, simulation tools and optimization models, to minimize the overall costs and customers' dissatisfaction. Each component communicates with the EMS using MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) protocol. A real case study of a touristic port (Finale Ligure) in the Savona Municipality is considered.