Mohammad Ahmed Qureshi, Saher Javaid, Nicholas Christofides, Yasuo Tan and Marios Lestas present the first formal treatment of cold ironing in the context of decentralized energy sharing. “Cold ironing” refers to supplying ships at berth with onshore electrical power instead of running onboard diesel generators. The authors:
- Define the key decision variables (e.g., shore‐power dispatch scheduling, battery allocations) that differentiate this problem from traditional P2P frameworks.
- Propose an initial mathematical formulation that captures vessel arrival/departure dynamics, shore‑power infrastructure constraints and cost vs. emissions trade‑offs.
- Situate their work within current European shore‑power regulations (e.g., the EU Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Directive) and Japan’s recent port electrification pilots conducted in partnership with the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST).
By highlighting these international policy drivers and the idiosyncrasies of the cold‑ironing use case, the paper lays the groundwork for both algorithmic innovation and cross‑regional pilot deployments.
Mohammad Ahmed Qureshi, Saher Javaid, Nicholas Christofides, Yasuo Tan, Marios Lestas, “Cold Ironing as a new Domain for Peer to Peer Energy Management; An EU and Japan Perspective,” IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics – Taiwan (ICCE‑TW), 2025.