3.5.2 Energy
Three designs include energy production in their proposals: TROPOS Service hub,
Mermaid Atlantic Ocean and Mermaid North Sea. Data are summarised in Table 3.4.
In the case of offshore wind OPEX costs, it is important to note that relevant
uncertainty that exists about these values, due to the few operating offshore wind
parks that exist in the world. In the case of MERMAID Atlantic Ocean design, no
common references for values are provided as there is no other known project that
combines wind and wave (excepting those research projects, where cost structure is
not clearly defined).
Table 3.4 Normalised financial values for energy sector
Parameter
Normalised value
Reference
Common value range
(ref)
TROPOS Service hub
Wind
Power
installed
500 MW
n.a.
In-project
internal
data
Production
1,796,000
MWh/year
n.a.
In-project
internal
data
Price
n.a.
In-project
internal
data
LCoE
1252 €/kWh
n.a.
In-project
internal
data
100–190 €/MWh [12]
CAPEX
4,173,000 €/MW
[16]
In-project
internal
data
1,600,000–4,000,000
€/MW [12–15]
OPEX
53351.66 €/MW/
year
[16]
In-project
internal
data
0.035 CAPEX [15]
MERMAID Atlantic Ocean
Wind
+Wave
Power
installed
616 MW
n.a.
In-project
internal
data
Production
80,000 MWh/year
n.a.
In-project
internal
data
Price (8 first
years)
150.0 €/MWh
n.a.
In-project
internal
data
Price (after
8 years)
170.0 €/MWh
n.a.
In-project
internal
data
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