Grid Balancing Complexity
Remote Island communities that are not connected to a continental grid, struggle to integrate renewable energy. Due to fluctuations in demand and the intermittent nature of many renewable energy sources, grid-balancing is often based on fossil fuels.
Fossil Fuel Dependency and Emissions
Reliance on fossil fuels in island communities is costly and contributes to significant greenhouse gas emissions and exposes communities to volatile fuel prices.
Limited Space and local Impact
The constraint of limited space on islands restricts the installation of traditional energy infrastructure like solar panels or wind turbines, as it may negatively impact the local environment and tourism.
Grid Balancing Capability
Our platform can support grid balancing by providing dispatchable power for peak-shaving or demand following services, using cutting-edge energy storage technologies like hydrogen and batteries. This can remove the need for generation based on fossil fuel.
Climate-Friendly Renewable Energy
We prioritize climate-friendliness by producing renewable energy offshore, reducing your carbon footprint without compromising sensitive environments or tourism.
Competitive Pricing
By reducing the need for imported fossil fuel, we deliver cost-effective energy solutions compared to other renewable energy options, making sustainable power accessible and competitive for Islands, while also benefiting the environment.
Energy intensive
Modern IT-infrastructure is increasingly energy intensive. Applications like artificial intelligence, cloud computing and streaming require vast amounts of electrical energy. At the same time the demand for these services is ever growing.
Scaling and grid access
Scaling up of datacentres are slowed significantly by lack of grid access. One of the big bottle necks in rolling out new data centres is the access to electricity from the grid. Many industries and sectors are being electrified. This create long wating time for build-out and strengthening of power grids – thus delaying grid connection of datacentres.
Uptime and availability
Society increasingly relies on IT infrastructure being available 24/7. downtime can have huge impacts on economy, society and even on security. This sets high standards for the power quality and availability of the power source.
Co-location
FPP platforms are used to house the servers of a datacentre. This means that green energy is generated right where it is needed, bypassing the need for a grid connection. The location offshore means access to abundant seawater cooling. Together with the elimination of power transmission losses result in world class efficiency.
Integrated energy storage
The integrated energy storage system in FPPs platforms based on hydrogen and batteries, stores green energy when it is in excess saving it for periods with low or no wind. This ensures a high uptime, without relying on a grid or fossil fuels.
Emerging market
Value chains for capturing CO2 and safely storing it permanently are rapidly emerging. Many of these involve capturing CO2 at the source onshore, liquifying and transporting it to an offshore site where it is injected into caverns below the seabed e.g. abandoned oil wells.
Access to renewable energy
All the steps in this project requires energy input. This energy obviously needs to have as low a carbon footprint as possible, not to add to the problem to be solved. The last steps of storing and injecting CO2 at the offshore site, poses a challenge. Renewable energy from the power grid is not available.
Cost of energy and carbon footprint
The easiest way to generate energy offshore is to use generators powered by fossil fuels. This is, a carbon intensive and very expensive solution, as the generators require monitoring and maintenance at fuel constantly needs to be transported to the site.
Green and dependable
Floating power plants floating renewable energy platforms are ideal to provide reliable green energy for CO2 injection offshore. The wind turbine produces vast amounts of green energy whilst the energy storage system based on hydrogen as a long-term storage medium, ensures that energy is available whenever it is needed.
Cost effective
Compared to other methods of providing power offshore, our platforms offer a lower cost of energy for the required power quality. This is achieved through an efficient use of the wind turbine due to the ability to store surplus energy and through efficient low maintenance operation. On top of that the power is renewable and low carbon.
Off Grid energy cost
Offshore energy assets like oil and gas platforms, face the challenge of being disconnected from the power grid. This means that energy for operations have to be generated on site by burning fossil fuels.
Emission Reduction Imperative
Addressing climate change requires a shift towards cleaner energy sources. Current reliance on fossil fuels creates significant emissions, at the same time renewable energy from the onshore power grid is not available.
Dependable Energy Supply
Offshore energy assets require a consistent and reliable source of energy to meet their needs as and when required, making it difficult to integrate intermittent renewable energy.
Dispatchable Renewables with Energy Storage
We ensure reliability through advanced energy storage solutions using hydrogen and batteries, guaranteeing power availability, even as renewable energy fluctuates.
Easily Integrated Renewable Energy Offshore
Our floating unmanned platforms generate and store renewable energy. Energy is supplied to the asset as needed via a subsea cable at the required voltage. This ensures seamless integration into the existing power system, with minimal changes needed on the asset.
Cost-Effective CO2 Abatement
By generating dependable green energy and reducing the reliance on fossil fuels, our solution provides a cost-effective CO2 abatement solution. Our solution also opens a variety of options towards End of life for the asset.
