Project description
Platform for assessing the sustainability of offshore wind farms
Europe has ambitious goals to grow offshore wind energy production by 2050. Developing offshore wind farms (OWFs) can affect society and the environment both positively and negatively, yet a comprehensive impact assessment tool is lacking. The EU-funded COMPASS project aims to assess the cumulative impacts of OWFs globally and locally. By combining life-cycle environmental, economic and social tools with a digital twin of OWFs, the project will create a user-friendly decision-support platform. This platform will be created using case studies from across Europe featuring various OWF designs, and it will be adaptable to different sea basins. It will evaluate priced and non-priced sustainability criteria to offer recommendations of OWF design optimisations that enhance trade-offs and overall performance, refining OWF sustainability and competitiveness.
Objective
Europe is at the forefront of offshore wind energy, with ambitious goals to expand its capacity from around 34 GW in 2023 to at least 88 GW by 2030 and 360 GW by 2050. Developing Offshore Wind Farms (OWFs) affects the environment and socio-economic systems both positively and negatively. To meet sustainability requirements, it is crucial to holistically evaluate these impacts across all scales and life phases of existing and future OWFs. Although many modeling tools exist to assess different types of impacts individually, the development of a holistic integrated tool is lacking. COMPASS (Comprehensive Offshore Management Platform for Assessing Sustainability) will provide an innovative and holistic understanding of both global and local cumulative impacts of OWF. By combining life-cycle based environmental, economic and social tools and an OWF digital twin, COMPASS will leverage their mutual advantages to assess OWF project sustainability. These tools will be integrated in a user-friendly, customizable, decision-support platform. The platform will be set up using diverse case studies across Europe, incorporating various OWF designs from bottom-fixed to floating technologies. This approach ensures its adaptability to different European sea basins and OWF projects. The platform aims to assist stakeholders in exploring different cost-effective options to improve sustainability trade-offs, acceptability and performance of OWF projects. By addressing both priced and non-priced sustainability criteria, it will provide recommendations to optimize OWF designs, from recycling strategies to nature-inclusive solutions, thereby refining OWF tender competitiveness. The COMPASS consortium brings together leading experts from academia, research institutes and industry, across eight EU countries, and involves an End-User Group, Policy-oriented Advisory Board and international experts, ensuring an innovative transdisciplinary, end-user driven approach to OWF impact assessment.
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HORIZON.2.5 - Climate, Energy and Mobility
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HORIZON.2.5.2 - Energy Supply
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02
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France
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