Managing the Environmental Sustainability of the Offshore Energy Transition

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/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.