Shell and Eneco’s offshore wind farm to include floating solar and hydrogen production
A consortium made up of Shell and Eneco is to develop an offshore wind farm that will incorporate a range of “technology demonstrations” including floating solar and hydrogen produced by electrolysis.
The CrossWind joint venture, as it’s known, is aiming for the project – which will be located in waters approximately 18.5 kilometers off the coast of the Netherlands – to be up and running by the year 2023.
In a statement on Wednesday, the Netherlands’ Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy said CrossWind would “test a variety of innovations in the field of energy storage and flexibility, with the possibility of rolling them out on a larger scale at other wind farms in the future.”
According to Eneco, the demonstration projects will include, among other things, “short-term battery storage”, floating solar technology and so-called “green hydrogen” generated by electrolysis. Green hydrogen refers to hydrogen produced using renewable sources such as wind power.
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