Bridge PowerValencia shore power

Port of Valencia · onshore power supply · model v0.2.1

Public port-call data, turned into an hourly shore-power demand curve for Valencia.

Every merchant call since January 2021, taken from the Port Authority's own community system, resolved ship by ship through an evidence waterfall into the megawatts a port has to contract, store or build for.

Trace One week, 14 to 20 July 2025 · mid power · full adoption · hourly MW by ship class
Mon 14 Jul 2025 · 16:00 · week peak 37.2MW
Container ships hold a floor near 16 MW day and night; RoPax ferries add a sharp evening block; cruise calls lift the daytime on weekends. Reference lines are the 2025 annual mean and P95 for the same case. Move across the trace to read any hour.

Headline figures

2025 · mid power · full adoption
Annual energy
193GWh
Low 125 · High 563 · FuelEU set 175
Mean demand
22.0MW
P80 26.6 MW
P95 hour
32.1MW
P99 36.7 MW · a contract sizing anchor
Peak hour
46.1MW
Mon 16 Jun 2025, 20:00 · 21 h above 40 MW
Evidence base · Jan 2021 to Oct 2026
Port calls
36,689
35,553 in the model after cleaning
Vessels
3,392
merged on IMO across renames

How it works

From a port-call record to a kW column.

  1. Source

    PCS calls

    36,689 calls with actual arrival and departure to the minute, terminal operator and liner service.

    valenciaportpcs.net
  2. Structure

    Registers

    Vessel, port, terminal, berth, connection and visit registers, keyed on IMO.

    3,392 vessels · 22 terminals
  3. Power

    Evidence waterfall

    • 1 Manual override
    • 2 Measured, this port
    • 3 Measured elsewhere
    • 4 Category model
    • 5 Installed × factor
    level 4 carries Valencia today
  4. Scenarios

    Adoption × power

    Four adoption cases by three power levels, with P50 to P99 capacity and unmet energy above a cap.

    4 × 3 cases · hourly
  5. Output

    Gridcog export

    Start-of-interval kW and kWh in local time and UTC, split by category and terminal.

    CSV · XLSX · 60 or 15 min