The Baseload Power Hub will be located at the Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm, which is 18.5 kim off the Dutch coast. Using excess energy generated by the 69 offshore wind turbines, this plant will employ a megawatt-scale electrolyser to produce green hydrogen that can be stored and converted on-demand into electricity by fuel cells. As wind is an intermittent power source, this plant will also include batteries for short-term power storage.
From a technical perspective, the Baseload Power Hub has a complex architecture, with multiple independent systems that need to be orchestrated, coordinated, and optimised by a single high-level control and monitoring system. At the center of the technology for this project is Yokogawa’s Collaborative Information Server (CI Server), a cross-platform supervisory control and information system that integrates industrial control systems, sensors, and artificial intelligence. CI Server allows operators to centrally supervise the integrated control and safety system that is to be delivered as part of this project.
Yokogawa takes a holistic view of the automation design to enable such plants to operate as cost-efficiently as possible. The Baseload Power Hub project demonstrates the company's commitment to supporting its clients in the execution of decarbonisation projects that involve the management of complex environments in which different systems must be closely integrated, based on the system of systems (SoS) concept.
