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Burns to Help Provide Greener and More Resilient Power to the Port of Oakland
June 23, 2025
A team of Burns power and utility engineers are nearing design completion of a microgrid and battery storage system for the Port of Oakland that will improve the Port’s resilience and provide cleaner sources of energy to power one of the nation’s busiest container ports. These improvements to the port will positively impact air quality and health outcomes in neighboring communities and support critical state climate objectives.
The project’s scope includes designing and coordinating the installation of around 150 EV chargers (30 of those chargers were designed exclusively by Burns) for port-operated heavy equipment and heavy-duty equipment vehicles, a 1MW PV array, and a 7.2 MW Battery Energy Storage System.
In addition to reducing greenhouse gas emissions at the Port, this project will also help reduce peak power demand from the utility by generating power through the PV array and optimizing the operation of the battery system. As part of the overall design, the site where the renewables sit will be configured into a microgrid to provide power to the existing facility and new EV chargers in the event of larger grid outages.
The project design will be complete by June of 2025. Construction completion is targeted for the end of 2028.
Learn more about Burns’ resilient power and microgrids solutions.
Resilient Power + Microgrids
