OFFSH2ORE WIND: research into the process of producing green hydrogen offshore on a floating wind platform.

Project description

The conditions for generating renewable energy at sea are very favourable. Offshore turbines produce significantly more energy than their onshore competitors, with 80% of the potential wind resource being in deep water. The OFFSH2ORE WIND project is looking to tap into this potential by coupling the direct production of green hydrogen to offshore wind power, thereby bringing about a significant reduction in hydrogen production costs.

Furthermore, this hybrid model provides other key benefits such as cost savings, opportunities for scaling up and deploying offshore wind farms of higher installed capacity, and a source of additional flexibility that can contribute to solving grid congestion problems. The hybridisation of wind farms and hydrogen production thus results in greater efficiency of the available resource, meeting the main objectives of current energy plans: renewable power and energy efficiency.

The challenge therefore arises for offshore wind producers to incorporate electrolysis processes and sea-to-land hydrogen pipelines as the wind farms move further offshore, which could reduce their energy export costs.

The OFFSH2ORE WIND project will therefore investigate offshore hydrogen production, making full use of offshore wind power and boosting the energy transition of the Spanish economy.