Marine areas offer substantial wind and solar resources, with the additional advantage of avoiding local acceptance challenges. The power generated from offshore and floating wind and solar farms needs to be managed, transported and connected to the shoreside grids, with an eye on power quality and the supply of system support services. This requires both power electronics equipment, as well as storage units, installed in proximity to the offshore generation, on artificial islands. Several organisations are currently planning or developing such offshore energy hubs, artificial islands or floating structures, offering wind energy distribution connections, housing power electronics, HV connectors, spare parts and repair facilities, as well as storage units or electrolysers.

This book offers an overview of offshore power hub technologies. Focusing on the North and Baltic Seas and also the US, individual chapters cover the civil works, hub topologies, renewable generation and system support services, storage and hydrogen technologies, HVAC and HVDC infrastructure, stability of offshore multi-energy systems, black start capability from offshore wind, economic and policy aspects for multinational projects, and future challenges.

Offshore Energy Hubs: Generation technologies, offshore grids, market economics and civil works offers systematic and thorough coverage of this developing field for researchers and practitioners in academia, industry, development firms and utilities involved with offshore energy infrastructure and HV transmission.