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The Value of Sector Coupling for the Development of Offshore Power Grids

Juan Gea-Bermúdez
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Lena Kitzing
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Matti Koivisto
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Kaushik Das
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Juan Pablo Murcia Leon
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Poul Sørensen
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Version 1 : Received: 3 December 2021 / Approved: 10 December 2021 / Online: 10 December 2021 (11:45:59 CET)

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Gea-Bermúdez, J.; Kitzing, L.; Koivisto, M.; Das, K.; Murcia León, J.P.; Sørensen, P. The Value of Sector Coupling for the Development of Offshore Power Grids. Energies 2022, 15, 747. Gea-Bermúdez, J.; Kitzing, L.; Koivisto, M.; Das, K.; Murcia León, J.P.; Sørensen, P. The Value of Sector Coupling for the Development of Offshore Power Grids. Energies 2022, 15, 747.

Abstract

Offshore grids can have a key role in the transition of the energy system to sustainability. Although they require extensive infrastructure investments, they open up for the exploitation of additional resources and may be important to provide for part of the increasing electricity demand driven by sector coupling. This paper quantifies the socio-economic value of offshore grids and identifies their major drivers, performing energy system optimization in a model application of the Northern-central European energy system and the North Sea offshore grid towards 2050. The increasing wake loss with the size of hub-connected wind farms is integrated in the modelling. We find that without sector coupling no offshore grid may develop, and that the higher the level of sector coupling, the higher the value of offshore grids. Therefore, it can be strongly stated that offshore grid infrastructure development should not be discussed as a separate political topic, but seen in connection to sector coupling.

Keywords

Sector coupling; Offshore grid; Optimization; Sustainability Transition; Energy System Modelling

Subject

Computer Science and Mathematics, Mathematics

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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