Managing the environmental sustainability of the offshore energy transition: a solutions-based approach (MOET)

管理海上能源转型的环境可持续性：基于解决方案的方法 (MOET)

• 批准号: NE/W005026/1
• 负责人: Michael Stephenson
• 金额: $ 327.77万
• 依托单位: British Geological Survey
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FW005026%2F1
• 关键词: Managing; environmental; sustainability; offshore; energy

Recent research suggests that the effects of climate change are already tangible, making the requirement for net zero more pressing than ever. Part of the solution for net zero will be geo-energy technologies in the North Sea, including offshore wind, blue and green hydrogen, and carbon capture and storage. These new technologies will interact with each other in the potentially-sensitive subsurface, seabed and water column. The project will assess the environmental sustainability of these technologies combined, for selected test areas of the UK offshore, and will develop solutions to make sure that the technology and infrastructure of the offshore energy transition, works well, is efficient, and does not harm the environment. Work package 1 focuses on the security and viability of industrial scale subsurface offshore hydrogen storage and carbon dioxide storage and investigates how the two might interact, and how best to make decisions about when to use storage space for hydrogen, and when for carbon dioxide. Work package 2 focuses on the characteristics of the sea bed and water column above the storage sites in the geology, and the effects of gas or fluid release from geological storage on the environment, and the environmental interactions of other offshore energy infrastructure like windfarms and cables. Work package 3 will focus on the social implications of an offshore energy transition, evaluating the risks and benefits of different technological scenarios to ecosystem services (the natural benefits that we get from the ocean, like fisheries), and it will look for net benefits where combinations of technologies provide extra environmental or efficiency improvements. Work package 4 will work with other WPs to ensure a fully integrated project, bringing together outputs from each work package into a usable form to support the decisions that stakeholders like the Oil and Gas Authority, Crown Estate, National Grid, and operators like Equinor, might make in the future.

最近的研究表明，气候变化的影响已经很明显，这比以往任何时候都更加紧迫。零净解决方案的一部分将是北海的地球能源技术，包括海上风，蓝色和绿色氢以及碳捕获和存储。这些新技术将在潜在敏感的地下，海床和水柱中相互相互作用。该项目将评估这些技术合并的环境可持续性，对于英国海上选定的测试区域，并将开发解决方案，以确保离岸能源过渡的技术和基础设施效果很好，有效，并且不会损害环境。工作包1的重点是工业规模地下氢存储和二氧化碳存储的安全性和可行性，并研究了两者的相互作用，以及如何最好地决定何时将存储空间用于氢气以及何时二氧化碳。工作包2的重点是地质储存地点上方的海床和水柱的特征，以及从地质存储对环境中的气体或流体释放的影响，以及其他海上能源基础设施（如风电源和电缆）的环境相互作用。工作包3将重点关注离岸能源过渡的社会含义，评估不同技术情景对生态系统服务的风险和收益（我们从海洋中获得的自然益处，例如渔业），并且它将寻找净收益，而技术的组合可提供额外的环境或效率改善。工作包4将与其他WPS合作，以确保一个完全集成的项目，将每个工作包的产出汇总到可用的表格中，以支持利益相关者，例如石油和天然气管理员，皇冠庄园，国家电网和Equinor等运营商，将来可能会做出。