DOSTA
Research into offshore storage and transport options for large-scale offshore wind energy.
Goal
DOSTA (Ddeveloping Ooffshore Sstorage and Ttransport AAlternatives) analyzes the feasibility of energy storage using pumped water and converting electricity into hydrogen from a technical, market, legal, and spatial perspective. It also investigates new methods for transporting electricity and/or hydrogen to land in the Dutch North Sea.
Description
This project analyzes the feasibility of offshore energy storage using electric pumped storage and hydrogen conversion, as well as novel methods for transporting electricity and/or hydrogen to shore in the Dutch North Sea. The feasibility will be studied from a technical, market, legal/regulatory, and spatial perspective, focusing on interdisciplinary policy recommendations. Interdisciplinary research will address the challenges of integrating large-scale wind energy planned for 2050 in the Dutch North Sea, thus facilitating the energy transition.
Our role
We contribute knowledge and experience from the North Sea as an Energy Region theme and coordinate knowledge dissemination.
Partners
The DOSTA consortium consists of 14 Dutch partners. In addition to New Energy Coalition The University of Groningen, Utrecht University, Ocean Grazer, Loyens & Loeff, NOGAT, NOORDGASTRANSPORT, Vattenfall Offshore Wind, Siemens Nederland, TNO, the Dutch Association for Energy Law NeVER, NOGEPA, TenneT, NAM & EBN are participating in the project.
Disclaimer
This project is funded by the NWO research program PhD@Sea under grant agreement WIND.2019.002. This page reflects the author's views only, and NWO is not responsible for any use of the information it contains.