Yokogawa to Provide Integrated Automation and Monitoring System for Pioneering Green Hydrogen Platform at Offshore Wind Farm in Europe

The Baseload Power Hub will be located at the Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm, which is 18.5 kilometers off the Dutch coast. Using excess energy generated by the 69 offshore wind turbines, this plant will employ a megawatt-scale electrolyzer 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 optimized by a single high-level control and monitoring system.

At the center of the technology for this project is Collaborative Information Server (CI Server), a cross-platform supervisory control and information system that integrates industrial control systems, sensors, and artificial intelligence. CIServer allows operators to centrally supervise the integrated control and safety system that is to be delivered as part of this project, and whose principal elements are Yokogawa's VP process automation system, ProSafe-RS safety system, and Plant Resource Manager, as well as an energy and control monitoring system provided by BaxEnergy, a Yokogawa company.