Optimal placement of technologies has a different meaning depending on the person you ask. Offshore wind developers would like to place their technology where it has a minimal cost and maximal energy production capabilities. Someone who is more ecologically inclined would argue that the ecological impact of the offshore wind industry should be the driver for the placement and thus environments where the impact is minimal should be prioritized. The optimal economic region and optimal ecological region often do not coincide with each other. In this example, North-C-Neutral can function as a stakeholder tool. it can optimize for any view a stakeholder might have and objectively compare it with the visions of other stakeholders. This way it becomes possible for the measure the economic impact of prioritizing ecology and vice versa. 

The North-C-Neutral model  optimizes for economy, ecology and emissions. Ortelius was tasked with the economic analysis of all the technologies incorporated into the model. Cost models were developed to describe for example the cost of a foundation for an offshore wind turbine and how this would change based on geo-spatial information like depth, distance to shore, seabed conditions, and many others. 

Technologies that the current model includes are:

• Offshore wind with fixed and floating foundations
• Aquaculture containing mussel longlines and seaweed.
• Floating PV panels
• Electrical export infrastructure like interconnectors, substations and energy islands
• Offshore hydrogen production
• Multi-use technologies that are combinations of offshore wind, aquaculture and floating PV
• Shipping lanes, nature reserve zones, military zones, etc.