A new three-year research project in Germany will explore the impact of offshore wind energy being fed into the grid.
The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy-funded GEOWISOL2 project will expand upon a database containing information on different geographical locations of various renewable sources feeding into the grid, as well as other data.
The database was established in the initial GEOWISOL project to better understand the delivery of renewable energy in terms of geographical location and impact on the grid.
However, offshore wind is a new addition to the initiative.
The findings will be used to support the development of grid expansion projects and also those that aim to couple renewables with other sectors, such as energy storage and power-to-X.
Offshore wind data will be added to the database via the ‘Integration of Offshore Wind Energy and Definition of Expansion Scenarios’ by the Offshore-Windenergie group.
Bremen Institute for Measurement, Automation and Quality Sciences at the University of Bremen is coordinating GEOWISOL2.
Partners include Deutsche WindGuard, Energy & Meteo Systems as well as Offshore-Windenergie.