The Offshore Wind and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Colocation Forum has commissioned two research projects, striving to explore the best approach to test and demonstrate the colocation potential of offshore wind and CCS activities in future.
Project Colocate, delivered by the University of Aberdeen, is set to explore the viability of areas on the seabed for colocation of CCS and offshore wind. Funded by The Crown Estate and Crown Estate Scotland, it will feature bespoke monitoring plans for each area and help support the Forum’s ambition of creating a pipeline of potential test and demonstration sites for the future. Investigations will focus on the East Irish Sea and Central North Sea.
Complementing this will be Project Anemone. Anemone will strive to explore mutually beneficial opportunities that arise from the colocation of both industries. It will identify and map the routes to realising these opportunities to create practical guidance for how offshore wind and CCS technologies are able to operate alongside one another, spanning construction all the way through to decommissioning. The Forum is liaising with NECCUS and several developers to help deliver the project.
