MOET provides a holistic study of the environmental and social impacts resulting from the rapid expansion of offshore infrastructure associated with windfarms and subsurface storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen (H2), driven by the UK’s energy transition to net zero emissions (net zero).

MOET assess the environmental sustainability of offshore wind, blue and green hydrogen, and carbon capture and storage for selected test areas of the UK offshore.

Website: https://pml.ac.uk/projects/moet-managing-the-environmental-sustainabili…

PI: Dr Jim White, British Geological Survey

NOC PI: Prof. Angus Best

Dates
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Funding

NERC – National Capability

Aim

For this project, NOC, BGS and PML will harness their internationally recognised expertise in subsurface and marine environmental science and technology, rock mechanics, fluid processes, biogeochemistry, psychology, economics and social science to create new national capability that will support future policy-making and marine planning.

The project aims to answer questions around the requirements for subsurface geological H2 and CO2 storage that are needed to enable the energy transition, the environmental sustainability of CO2 and H2 storage and offshore energy infrastructure, the social and economic trade-offs and consequences of the offshore energy transition and how this research can be translated into stakeholder-relevant outcomes through coordination and co-design to support decision making.