DOSTA (finished)

Goal

DOSTA (Developing Offshore Storage and Transport Alternatives) assesses the feasibility of offshore energy storage options (electricity pumped storage and hydrogen conversion) from a technical, market, legal and spatial planning perspective. It also studies alternative methods to transport electricity and/or hydrogen to shore and their feasibility for implementation in the Dutch North Sea.

Facts

Description

This project analyses the feasibility of implementing offshore energy storage through electrical pumped storage and hydrogen conversion and of novel methods to transport electricity and/or hydrogen to shore in the Dutch North Sea. Feasibility is studied from a technical, market, legal/regulatory and spatial perspective, targeting joined interdisciplinary policy recommendations. Interdisciplinary resreach addresses the challenges to integration of large scale wind energy planned in the Dutch North Sea by 2050 and thus facilitates the energy transition.

Our role

We contribute knowledge and experience from the theme North Sea as an Energy Region, and coordinate the knowledge dissemination activities.

Partners

The DOSTA consortium consists of 14 Dutch partners. In addition to New Energy Coalition, University of Groningen, University of Utrecht, Ocean Grazer, Loyens & Loeff, NOGAT, NOORDGASTRANSPORT, Vattenfall Offshore Wind, Siemens Netherlands, TNO, Dutch Energy Law Association NeVER, NOGEPA, TenneT, NAM & EBN are participating in the project.

Acknowledgement

This project has received funding from the Dutch Research Council’s (NWO) research programme PhD@Sea under grant agreement WIND.2019.002. This page reflects only the author’s view and NWO, is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.