Ports plan for future zero-emission goal with cleaner, safer energy | Sustainable LA Grand Challenge

October 18, 2016

This Oct. 14, 2016 staff photo shows a solar panel array on top of a Port of Long Beach building that is part of a trial energy project. Photo by Brad Graverson/Torrance Daily Breeze/SCNG.

Long Beach port and the Port of Los Angeles are undertaking new efforts to become greener and cleaner. The move at the twin ports was prompted by Governor Jerry Brown’s environmental greenhouse gas regulations. The ports hope to create a stand-alone, zero-emission energy source to power their activities. Colleen Callahan, deputy director of the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation, identifies the work being done at the ports as groundbreaking. “Other ports will be watching what is done here,” she notes.