Imperial College London
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DrIainStaffell

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Centre for Environmental Policy

Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Energy
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 9570i.staffell

 
 
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202Weeks BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

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@article{Jansen:2022:10.1016/j.adapen.2022.100090,
author = {Jansen, M and Duffy, C and Green, T and Staffell, I},
doi = {10.1016/j.adapen.2022.100090},
journal = {Advances in Applied Energy},
pages = {1--14},
title = {Island in the Sea: The prospects and impacts of an offshore wind power hub in the North Sea},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adapen.2022.100090},
volume = {6},
year = {2022}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Europe's offshore wind capacity is increasing rapidly, with larger turbines installed further from shore. TenneT proposed an innovative concept, the North Sea Wind Power Hub, in which several farms are connected to an artificial island which has interconnection to surrounding countries. This aims to reduce overall costs, but studies have so far evaluated hypothetical designs rather than the specific system operators’ proposal, and focused primarily on construction costs rather than ongoing system-wide impacts. Here we develop a bottom-up capital cost estimate to compare the Power Hub with conventional point-to-point connection for offshore wind farms. We quantify its consequential impacts on regional electricity prices, the value of wind generation, fossil fuel generation and carbon emissions in 2030 using a pan-European electricity market model. We find that the Power Hub is cheaper if more than 10 GW of wind is built, as the avoided cost of multiple converter platforms offsets the cost of building an artificial island. It has profound impacts on electricity markets across Europe, especially in Britain and Ireland if they gain more interconnection to continental Europe. This impacts the economic viability of wind and gas power stations particularly, and saves 10Mt CO2 per year through reduced curtailment.
AU  - Jansen,M
AU  - Duffy,C
AU  - Green,T
AU  - Staffell,I
DO  - 10.1016/j.adapen.2022.100090
EP  - 14
PY  - 2022///
SN  - 2666-7924
SP  - 1
TI  - Island in the Sea: The prospects and impacts of an offshore wind power hub in the North Sea
T2  - Advances in Applied Energy
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adapen.2022.100090
UR  - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666792422000087
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/95122
VL  - 6
ER  -
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