The integration of offshore wind power and O&G platforms offers environmental benefits.
However, the intermittent wind power cannot provide scheduled and reliable power to the O&G platforms. A battery energy storage system (BESS) can be needed. The cooperation needs to count for the uncertainties in wind and O&G production processes. The ESR will integrate different sources and types of information (e.g., time series, images, results from numerical models based on finite elements approaches) into operations-oriented models, to devise novel control and health monitoring algorithms for the management of hybrid offshore energy hubs.
The ESR will also develop the techno-economic study of system design that considers both capital and operational costs, along with the possibility for economic benefits from fuel savings and CO2 emission reductions.
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