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Expansion Governance of the Integrated North Seas Offshore Grid
The expansion of offshore power transmission and generation in the North Seas of Europe is accelerating rapidly. This is due to several drivers, including the decarbonization and reform of the European power system, and innovations in offshore wind and high-voltage direct current transmission. So far, this European North Seas offshore grid is composed of conventional transmission lines, which perform the interconnection of onshore power systems and the wind farm connection functions separately. An integrated offshore grid is an innovative concept where some of the transmission lines perform simultaneously both the interconnection and connection functions. Earlier research leveraging optimization approaches already demonstrated that such an integrated offshore grid can provide socio-economical, technical and environmental benefits. The offshore grid is characterized by its multiplicity of actors, working in several levels, from the European to the sub-national. This makes governance the only adequate decision-making mode to manage the grid expansion towards more integration. Governance combines hierarchies, markets and networks in order to guide decision-making in a networked multi-level, multi-actor system. The expansion governance of the offshore grid can be analyzed according to six building blocks: meta-governance, planning, financing, ownership, pricing and operation. Previous studies have identified important barriers in these building blocks for the development of an integrated offshore grid. These comprise the difficulties in the site planning and development of integrated projects, the allocation of costs and benefits among actors, and the compatibilization of national support schemes to offshore wind. This research applies an exploratory approach to expansion governance to understand how the offshore grid can be managed towards more integration in the presence of these barriers. Therefore, it does not prescribe investments in specific offshore wind farms and transmission corridors. This approach ...
Expansion Governance of the Integrated North Seas Offshore Grid
The expansion of offshore power transmission and generation in the North Seas of Europe is accelerating rapidly. This is due to several drivers, including the decarbonization and reform of the European power system, and innovations in offshore wind and high-voltage direct current transmission. So far, this European North Seas offshore grid is composed of conventional transmission lines, which perform the interconnection of onshore power systems and the wind farm connection functions separately. An integrated offshore grid is an innovative concept where some of the transmission lines perform simultaneously both the interconnection and connection functions. Earlier research leveraging optimization approaches already demonstrated that such an integrated offshore grid can provide socio-economical, technical and environmental benefits. The offshore grid is characterized by its multiplicity of actors, working in several levels, from the European to the sub-national. This makes governance the only adequate decision-making mode to manage the grid expansion towards more integration. Governance combines hierarchies, markets and networks in order to guide decision-making in a networked multi-level, multi-actor system. The expansion governance of the offshore grid can be analyzed according to six building blocks: meta-governance, planning, financing, ownership, pricing and operation. Previous studies have identified important barriers in these building blocks for the development of an integrated offshore grid. These comprise the difficulties in the site planning and development of integrated projects, the allocation of costs and benefits among actors, and the compatibilization of national support schemes to offshore wind. This research applies an exploratory approach to expansion governance to understand how the offshore grid can be managed towards more integration in the presence of these barriers. Therefore, it does not prescribe investments in specific offshore wind farms and transmission corridors. This approach ...
Expansion Governance of the Integrated North Seas Offshore Grid
Gorenstein Dedecca, João (author)
2018-01-01
Theses
Electronic Resource
English
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710
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