Seward, an Alaska tourism hotspot, gets grant for shore-based system to power docked cruise ships
The Port of Seward, which serves a coastal Kenai Peninsula town that is a tourism hotspot in the summer, has received a $45.7 million grant to develop a system to cut air pollution from visiting cruise ships.
The grant, from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Ports Program, is for shore-based power and battery storage systems to be used by the cruise ships that sail in and out of Seward.
Those systems will allow cruise ships to switch to electric power from the emissions-spewing diesel fuel they burn while making port calls.
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