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. Energies2022, 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.
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. Energies2022, 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
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