After spells with Energean and Edison, Nigel Platt is starting a new role as Research Fellow at The Centre for Energy Transition in the School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen. 

Nigel commented:
"I’m excited to be working with Prof John Underhill and Dr Sam Head on Project Colocate, co-funded by The Crown Estate and Crown Estate Scotland, with the aim of enabling offshore wind and carbon capture and storage sites to co-exist on the seabed while helping the UK to meet its renewable energy generation and CCS targets on the path to Net Zero."

Researchers at the University of Aberdeen's Centre for Energy Transition will play a key role in enabling the UK's first test and demonstration projects designed to test the ability of offshore wind and carbon capture and storage (CCS) sites to co-exist on the seabed.

The University has received £250,000 in investment from The Crown Estate and Crown Estate Scotland for Project Colocate – which will investigate viable areas on the seabed for colocation of CCS and offshore wind, helping to create a pipeline of potential test & demonstration sites for the future.

With space on the seabed limited, colocation is seen as a key factor in helping the UK meet offshore wind generation and CCS targets that are vital to the country’s net zero ambitions.

Researchers from the University will focus their investigations on the East Irish Sea and Central North Sea, both of which have been identified as having significant potential for future colocation of CCS and offshore wind.

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