CORDOBA

The offshore energy sector is striving for a cost-effective, holistic and durable design and operation of hybrid offshore connections (HOC) and offshore grids. This does require overcoming a number of challenges. These include the joint development and the coordinated operation of HOCs to deliver grid-supporting services to multiple control areas.

The partners within the CORDOBA project aim to address these challenges in three main areas: by developing an optimisation model for offshore grid design, by establishing a coordinated control model for HOCs and by researching the impact of system design on the grid-supporting services.

Furthermore, an investment participation and remuneration model for HOCs will be established, which will allow multiple investors to develop different parts of the hybrid offshore grid at different times, while reliably recovering their investments. Finally, the models will be validated in two different test cases.

The project has many payback effects for the Flemish economy, and the partners’ impact analysis shows that a successful Cordoba project may lead to employment growth of ~26 FTEs and investments in the order of 23 million euro.