North Sea region energy system towards  2050: integrated offshore grid and sector  coupling drive offshore wind power installations

Koivisto, Matti; Gea-Bermúdez, Juan; Kanellas, Polyneikis; Das, Kaushik; Sørensen, Poul

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-1705-2020

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North Sea region energy system towards 2050: integrated offshore grid and sector coupling drive offshore wind power installations

Matti Koivisto, Juan Gea-Bermúdez, Polyneikis Kanellas, Kaushik Das, and Poul Sørensen

Data sets

Data set for the manuscript: North Sea region energy system towards 2050: integrated offshore grid and sector coupling drive offshore wind power installations J. Gea-Bermudez, M. J. Koivisto, K. Das, P. Kanellas, and P. E. Sørensen https://doi.org/10.11583/DTU.13332497.v1

Short summary

Several energy system scenarios towards 2050 for the North Sea region are analysed. With a focus on offshore wind, the impacts of meshed offshore grid and sector coupling are studied. The results show that the introduction of a meshed grid can increase offshore wind power installations by around 10 GW towards 2050. However, sector coupling is expected to increase offshore wind power installations by tens of gigawatts.