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PO119: A match made at sea: Hydrogen and floating wind. A techno-economic assessment of transmission alternatives
Max Peel, Consultant,
Abstract
In order to reach net zero targets by 2050, Europe will require significant increases in installed offshore wind production capacity and long-term storage to meet inter-seasonal demand. However, the majority of the potential sites are located in deepwater regions well away from the shore, in the UK alone, an estimated 790 GW in water depths of 50-100 metres and 1,030 GW in water depths exceeding 100 metres. This presentation will discuss a techno-economic assessment of transmission alternatives for hydrogen production from floating wind. Floating wind enables access to resources further from shore to achieve higher capacity factors. For these longer transmission distances, floating wind requires the most efficient transmission systems. Moreover, multiple benefits to electrolysis can be hypothesised when in combination with floating wind, for example, if integrated onto turbine foundations which are large enough compared to fixed-bottom foundations, and the benefits unlocked from offshore electrolysis through the use of subsea hydrogen gas pipelines. Therefore, the main aims of the research project were to investigate the techno-economic viability of different transmission methods for hydrogen production from floating wind and explore how the input parameters impact the financial viability metric, the Levelised Cost of Hydrogen (LCOH) [£/kg H2] through a sensitivity analysis.
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