Abstract:
Offshore wind power has become an important field for the development and utilization of wind power due to abundant resources and wide area. However, the strong randomness and intermittent nature of offshore wind power bring many problems to the safe and reliable consumption of offshore wind power. Hydrogen production from wind power is an effective means to improve wind power utilization and alleviate wind curtailment, and it has become a focusing application in the development and research of offshore wind power. This paper comprehensively considers the scheme, equipment investment cost, operation and maintenance cost of hydrogen production technology, and gives the economic evaluation method of the domestic hydrogen production technology from offshore wind power; This paper establishes three technical schemes and economic models for hydrogen production on shore, hydrogen production on offshore platform with hydrogen transported through pipeline and hydrogen production from offshore platform with hydrogen transported by ships. According to relevant research and literature data, taking a 300 MW offshore wind farm as an example, three kinds of hydrogen production technical schemes at different offshore distances are compared in terms of economic efficiency. The results show that among the three technical schemes, hydrogen production from offshore platform with hydrogen transported by ships is the most economic; and the offshore distance increases, the uniform annual value of this scheme is basically unchanged. But with the offshore distance increases, the uniform annual value of the hydrogen production on shore and hydrogen production from offshore platform with hydrogen transported through pipeline schemes increase in different degrees.