Supergen ORE hub 2018
Lead Research Organisation:
Plymouth University
Department Name: Sch of Engineering
Abstract
The UK is at the forefront of the development, adoption and export of Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) technologies: offshore wind (OW), wave and tidal energy. To sustain this advantage, the UK must spearhead research and innovation in ORE, which will accelerate its adoption and widen the applicability of these technologies. Many organisations across the industry-academia spectrum contribute to ORE research and development (R&D) co-ordination and the ORE Supergen hub strategy will take a leadership role, integrating with these activities to guide and deliver fundamental research to advance the ORE sector.
The role of the Supergen ORE hub is to provide research leadership for the ORE community to enable transformation to future scale ORE. The hub will articulate the vision for the future scale ORE energy landscape, will identify the innovations required and the fundamental research needed to underpin the innovation. It will also generate the pathway for translation of research and innovation into industry practice, for policy adaptation and public awareness in order to support the increased deployment of ORE technologies, reducing energy costs while increasing energy security, reducing CO2 emissions and supporting UK jobs. The hub will work closely with the ORE Catapult (ORECAT) and become well-connected with industry, government, the wider research community in the UK and internationally. It will bring together these groups to assemble the expertise and experience to define and target the innovations, research and actions to achieve the ambitious energy transformation envisioned for the UK.
The new Supergen ORE hub will continue to support and build on the existing internationally leading academic capacity within these three research areas (OW, wave and tidal technology), whilst also enabling shared learning on common research challenges. The ORE hub will build a multi-disciplinary, collaborative approach, which will bring benefits through the sharing of best practice and exploitation of synergy, support equality and diversity and the development of the next generation of research leaders.
The hub strategy provides an overview of research and innovation priorities, which will be addressed through multiple routes but linked through the hub, with activities designed to stimulate alignment across the research community and industry sectors to maximise engagement with prioritised research challenges through and beyond the hub time-scale. These include:
1. Networking and engagement activities to bring the research community together with industry and other stakeholders to ensure research efforts within the community are aligned, complementary and remain inspired by or relevant to industry challenges. This will include support and development of the ECR community to ensure sustainability and promote EDI within the sector as a whole. Actions will also be taken to identify potential cross over research synergies and opportunities for transfer of research between sectors and disciplines, both within and external to ORE. Furthermore, a structured communication plan built around progress of the community towards the sector research challenges will promote exploitation and commercialisation.
2. A set of core research work packages addressing priority topics selected and structured to maximize progress towards the sector objectives and building on the cross cutting expertise of the co-director team.
3. Targeted use of flexible fund as seed-corn activity leading to projects aligned with, and in partnership with, the hub.
The role of the Supergen ORE hub is to provide research leadership for the ORE community to enable transformation to future scale ORE. The hub will articulate the vision for the future scale ORE energy landscape, will identify the innovations required and the fundamental research needed to underpin the innovation. It will also generate the pathway for translation of research and innovation into industry practice, for policy adaptation and public awareness in order to support the increased deployment of ORE technologies, reducing energy costs while increasing energy security, reducing CO2 emissions and supporting UK jobs. The hub will work closely with the ORE Catapult (ORECAT) and become well-connected with industry, government, the wider research community in the UK and internationally. It will bring together these groups to assemble the expertise and experience to define and target the innovations, research and actions to achieve the ambitious energy transformation envisioned for the UK.
The new Supergen ORE hub will continue to support and build on the existing internationally leading academic capacity within these three research areas (OW, wave and tidal technology), whilst also enabling shared learning on common research challenges. The ORE hub will build a multi-disciplinary, collaborative approach, which will bring benefits through the sharing of best practice and exploitation of synergy, support equality and diversity and the development of the next generation of research leaders.
The hub strategy provides an overview of research and innovation priorities, which will be addressed through multiple routes but linked through the hub, with activities designed to stimulate alignment across the research community and industry sectors to maximise engagement with prioritised research challenges through and beyond the hub time-scale. These include:
1. Networking and engagement activities to bring the research community together with industry and other stakeholders to ensure research efforts within the community are aligned, complementary and remain inspired by or relevant to industry challenges. This will include support and development of the ECR community to ensure sustainability and promote EDI within the sector as a whole. Actions will also be taken to identify potential cross over research synergies and opportunities for transfer of research between sectors and disciplines, both within and external to ORE. Furthermore, a structured communication plan built around progress of the community towards the sector research challenges will promote exploitation and commercialisation.
2. A set of core research work packages addressing priority topics selected and structured to maximize progress towards the sector objectives and building on the cross cutting expertise of the co-director team.
3. Targeted use of flexible fund as seed-corn activity leading to projects aligned with, and in partnership with, the hub.
Planned Impact
The UK is a global leader in ORE research and deployment and the rapid global growth of the sector provides substantial opportunities to expand the UK benefit. The research programme of the Supergen ORE hub, its management structure and the pathways to impact will help maximise these potential benefits.
Industry and Investors
The structure of the ORE industry base reflects the differing stages of development in OW, wave and tidal energy with wave and tidal being dominated by UK SMEs while the OW industry is dominated by large OEMs and developers, most of which are based outside of the UK. OW, wave and tidal will benefit directly from the Supergen hub research and indirectly from the conduit the hub will provide to the wider ORE research network. Wave and tidal companies will benefit from the Supergen hub research through improved understanding of the operating environment, better modelling and design methods, innovative solutions and a clearer picture of the potential benefits of the technology, thus reducing risk. In the case of OW, in addition to the benefits above, there is an opportunity to increase the UK content (both CAPEX and OPEX) of deployments in our coastal waters and also to prove and establish technologies and services that can form the basis for global export businesses in a sector which is expected to see exponential growth for several decades to come. The focus of the hub research on large scale and floating structures will underpin industry opportunities for both UK and international deployments.
The industry will benefit through direct involvement in research projects but also through access to models, data and standards developed and disseminated through the hub and the wider ORE network for which the hub will act as a focal point. It will also benefit from the development of a pool of talent with the knowledge, experience and academic/industry networks able to support this rapidly growing sector. Through implementation of the ECR, EDI and communications plans we will seek to ensure that a pipeline of talent is available to the industry which is better skills trained and has greater diversity than is currently available.
Government and policy makers
The research programme will provide improved understanding of the potential contribution of ORE technologies to the energy mix and of the environmental and GVA impacts resulting. This will enable policy makers to have increased confidence in planning and decision making, ensure suitable regulatory frameworks are in place and identify priorities for support.
The communications plan will help increase the level of understanding of ORE among the general public, helping ensure greater support for governmental policies.
Public
Increased deployment of appropriate ORE technologies will help to deliver on national and international energy and climate change objectives, and ensure security of energy supply at an acceptable cost with known and managed environmental impacts. The increase in high value employment opportunities will positively impact on the UK in general and particularly in coastal communities.
The ORE hub management structure has strong involvement of end users and other stakeholders to create the necessary two-way lines of communication and influence and to ensure that the research remains relevant and has a clear pathway to implementation in practice. The Supergen ORE hub will work closely with the ORE Catapult (ORECAT) and Carbon Trust, and will collaborate on joint research programmes and workshops and in support of the Offshore Wind Innovation Hub (OWIH).
The hub will extend its influence through its international strategy, building strategic partnerships and opportunities with global reach, and Cross Hub Activities, identifying opportunities to support research at the interfaces between the remits of individual hubs and to convene joint research and engagement.
Industry and Investors
The structure of the ORE industry base reflects the differing stages of development in OW, wave and tidal energy with wave and tidal being dominated by UK SMEs while the OW industry is dominated by large OEMs and developers, most of which are based outside of the UK. OW, wave and tidal will benefit directly from the Supergen hub research and indirectly from the conduit the hub will provide to the wider ORE research network. Wave and tidal companies will benefit from the Supergen hub research through improved understanding of the operating environment, better modelling and design methods, innovative solutions and a clearer picture of the potential benefits of the technology, thus reducing risk. In the case of OW, in addition to the benefits above, there is an opportunity to increase the UK content (both CAPEX and OPEX) of deployments in our coastal waters and also to prove and establish technologies and services that can form the basis for global export businesses in a sector which is expected to see exponential growth for several decades to come. The focus of the hub research on large scale and floating structures will underpin industry opportunities for both UK and international deployments.
The industry will benefit through direct involvement in research projects but also through access to models, data and standards developed and disseminated through the hub and the wider ORE network for which the hub will act as a focal point. It will also benefit from the development of a pool of talent with the knowledge, experience and academic/industry networks able to support this rapidly growing sector. Through implementation of the ECR, EDI and communications plans we will seek to ensure that a pipeline of talent is available to the industry which is better skills trained and has greater diversity than is currently available.
Government and policy makers
The research programme will provide improved understanding of the potential contribution of ORE technologies to the energy mix and of the environmental and GVA impacts resulting. This will enable policy makers to have increased confidence in planning and decision making, ensure suitable regulatory frameworks are in place and identify priorities for support.
The communications plan will help increase the level of understanding of ORE among the general public, helping ensure greater support for governmental policies.
Public
Increased deployment of appropriate ORE technologies will help to deliver on national and international energy and climate change objectives, and ensure security of energy supply at an acceptable cost with known and managed environmental impacts. The increase in high value employment opportunities will positively impact on the UK in general and particularly in coastal communities.
The ORE hub management structure has strong involvement of end users and other stakeholders to create the necessary two-way lines of communication and influence and to ensure that the research remains relevant and has a clear pathway to implementation in practice. The Supergen ORE hub will work closely with the ORE Catapult (ORECAT) and Carbon Trust, and will collaborate on joint research programmes and workshops and in support of the Offshore Wind Innovation Hub (OWIH).
The hub will extend its influence through its international strategy, building strategic partnerships and opportunities with global reach, and Cross Hub Activities, identifying opportunities to support research at the interfaces between the remits of individual hubs and to convene joint research and engagement.
Organisations
- Plymouth University (Lead Research Organisation)
- BP (British Petroleum) (Collaboration)
- Carnegie (Collaboration)
- CROWN ESTATE (Collaboration)
- Lloyd's Register Foundation (Collaboration)
- Marine Scotland Science (MSS) (Collaboration)
- Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (Collaboration)
- Fugro (Collaboration)
- Mocean Energy (Collaboration)
- University of Warwick (Collaboration)
- Carbon Trust (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE (Collaboration)
- Green Alliance (Collaboration)
- Garrad Balfour Ltd. (Collaboration)
- Ørsted (Collaboration)
- Atlantis Operations (UK) Ltd (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN (Collaboration)
- Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (Collaboration)
- Wave Hub Ltd (Collaboration)
- EDF Energy (United Kingdom) (Collaboration)
- Atkins (United Kingdom) (Collaboration)
- Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult (Collaboration)
- Ocean Winds (Collaboration)
- University of Bristol (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON (Collaboration)
- DNV GL (Collaboration)
- University of Manchester (Collaboration)
- University of Lisbon (Collaboration)
- University of Western Australia (Collaboration)
- Simec Atlantis Energy (Collaboration)
- University of Hull (Collaboration)
- Offshore Energy (Collaboration)
- European Marine Energy Centre, Orkney (Collaboration)
- IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON (Collaboration)
- Technical University of Denmark (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EXETER (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Collaboration)
- Rayner Low Carbon Technologies (Collaboration)
- MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (Collaboration)
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) (Collaboration)
- RenewableUK (Collaboration)
- Wave Energy Scotland (Collaboration)
- Marine Power Systems Ltd (Collaboration)
- Arup Group (Collaboration)
Publications
Abdelrahman M
(2020)
Observer-Based Unknown Input Estimator of Wave Excitation Force for a Wave Energy Converter
in IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
AF Haselsteiner
(2021)
Renewable Energy
in Long-term extreme response of an offshore turbine: How accurate are contour-based estimates?
Ahmadi-Naghadeh R
(2022)
A laboratory characterisation of the response of intact chalk to cyclic loading
in Géotechnique
Ahmed U
(2020)
Turbulent length scales and budgets of Reynolds stress-transport for open-channel flows; friction Reynolds numbers R et = 150, 400 and 1020
in Journal of Hydraulic Research
Ali K
(2023)
Assessment of Five Wind-Farm Parameterizations in the Weather Research and Forecasting Model: A Case Study of Wind Farms in the North Sea
in Monthly Weather Review
Allen J
(2021)
Physical Modelling of the Effect on the Wave Field of the WaveCat Wave Energy Converter
in Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
| Description | Research challenges and themes consistently updated consultation with academic and industry community in ORE. The research landscape has been used to promote and raise awareness of ORE research and also to frame and prioritise the Flexible funding and ECR research funding calls. 3 Flexible Funding calls released, with total of 284 applications. 30 awarded at c£3m, bringing together Cross-ORE research, in fields as diverse as: "Novel Approaches for Physical Model Testing of Floating Wind Turbine Platforms", "Autonomous Biomimetic Robot-fish for Offshore Wind Farm Inspection" and "Smart piezoelectric metamaterials for partial discharge monitoring" All projects have shared research findings and opportunities with the wider ORE Community through numerous mediums, including events, videos, presentations and the Supergen ORE Hub website. 3 Flexible Funding calls have led to £2.9m of industry match. Since 2019 SOH has leveraged c£83.3m through in-kind contributions, follow on projects through SOH partners, fellowships for ECRs supported through our network, Flexible Funding additional investment and SOH input, consultation, influence or introduction. Responded to UK Gov't consultation on proposed amendments to Supply Chain Plans and Contracts for Difference Delivery, in consultation with OREC, MEW, MEC and other industry stakeholders, also the Government consultation on proposed amendments to Supply Chain Plans and CfD Delivery (2022) in addition to responding to the "BEIS Marine energy consultation - A call for evidence on the potential of marine energy projects in Great Britain" alongside the Marine Energy Council, resulting in subsequent reform of the CfD allocations with a c£20m de minimus limit being introduced for Tidal Energy projects. Within the Supergen programme, the development and dissemination of a series of five policy guidance reports, titled 'The Ocean Energy Policymakers Toolkit' has been achieved by the University of Edinburgh. These policy guidance reports are designed to inform and guide prospective policymakers and researchers on the research challenges and opportunities facing the ocean energy sector, how they can be overcome to increase overall deployment and the associated costs of doing so. These reports utilised a combination of future evidence-based scenarios, quantitative analysis of existing data, collaboration with industry and government policymakers and future scenario analysis, to outline how the ocean energy sector can grow to become an indispensable feature of a future UK energy mix. This report series gained extensive exposure and coverage, being presented at Westminster roundtables, to visiting MPs and MSPs and featured in newspaper articles. Cable modelling / testing work by the University of Exeter has enabled the detailed numerical 2D &3D analysis of submarine power cables and extensive experimental testing. Key findings include the demonstrated feasibility of novel NDT monitoring (e.g. Spread-spectrum time-domain reflectometry (SSTDR) as well as non-linear and load dependent effects of cable stiffness. The findings enable a more accurate cable modelling and improved cable design. Development by the University of Warwick of the first digital twin for wind farm flow system by fusing data with physics, which can predict the in situ spatiotemporal wind field covering the entire wind farm. The design enables the seamless integration of Lidar measurements and turbine operating data for real-time flow characterization, and the fusion of flow physics for retrieving unmeasured wind field information. It thus addresses the limitations of existing wind prediction approaches based on supervised machine learning, which cannot achieve such prediction because the training targets are not available. Other key findings include: - Work on the hydroelastic numerical modelling and experimental testing of rigid and hinged very large floating structures (VLFS) was carried out by the University of Strathclyde. Specifically, the application of open-source hydrodynamic solvers and the expansion of the numerical model to predict displacements and structural loading were implemented. An open-source data repository (10.5281/zenodo.10067450) was uploaded, and is now available, containing the data of the first regular waves testing campaign of the VLFS conducted at the Kelvin Hydrodynamics laboratory at the University of Strathclyde. Furthermore, a new and extensive testing campaign was carried out at the Coast Lab at the University of Plymouth, where the VLFS prototype was tested subject to oblique loading and irregular sea states to understand the influence of extreme wave loading on VLFS. Lastly, the numerical model was coupled to a structural optimisation algorithm to optimise the weight of the VLFS cross section. - University of Hull developed approaches to enable improved monitoring of ORE systems including loads, performance and damage. In particular developing methods to increase the number of measurement points in fibre optic sensing systems for large structures such as wind/tidal turbine blades and dynamic cables and establishing approaches to increase the robustness of sensing systems to damage. - University of Manchester has advanced numerical models for synthesizing the unsteady flow at tidal stream sites and interaction with turbines and wakes to define turbine fatigue loading. This has included high-fidelity LES CFD analysis of the influence of depth of immersion (Ouro et al. IMEJ 2022), seabed bathymetry (Hurubi et al. 2023, Ouro et al. 2023), and surface waves (Stallard et al. EWTEC 2023) on turbine wakes and the onset flows to downstream turbines. Earlier work to characterise turbulent channel onset flows (Ahmed et al. 2021) by high-fidelity CFD was awarded the IAHR Harold Jan Schoemaker Award 2023. Methods for prediction of turbine design loads have been further developed. For steady loading cases work at the University of Manchester focused on inter-comparison of blade element momentum theory models and actuator line models in RANS and LES CFD with the experimental data obtained from the ORE Hub 1.6 m diameter reference tidal stream turbine. These models were compared with blind-studies run by multiple groups globally establishing confidence in different model classes and key areas for development, and reported in EWTEC 2021 and EWTEC 2023 conference papers. Actuator methods have also been further developed to capture turbulence production during turbine operation (Kang et al. 2023). CFD tools for unsteady load prediction, particularly fatigue load prediction, have been developed for complex combinations of shear, turbulence, waves and wakes. Building on earlier evaluation of turbulence production and wake extent of tidal stream farms and to inform both engineering design and wide-area ecological modelling analysis of wind farm wake extent has been undertaken. Detailed investigation of wind farm parameterisations using the atmospheric flow model Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) for a group of operational wind farms (Ali et al. 2023) has highlighted the scale of wind farm wakes expected, quantified the impact on power performance and demonstrated the importance of appropriate parameterisation of turbulence production as well as momentum extraction. - An ecosystem-based natural capital evaluation framework has been developed by the University of Aberdeen that builds on a dynamic Bayesian modelling approach (Trifonova et al., 2021) which accounts for the multiplicity of interactions between physical, biological indicators and anthropogenic marine use (i.e., fishing, OWF). In WP1 the framework was shown to have the potential of exploring the likely outcomes, across different metrics: both ecological (e.g., stock biomass) and socio-economic (e.g., gross value added, GVA), from alternative management and climate scenarios, such that objective judgements and decisions can be made, as to how to balance the benefits and trade-offs between a range of marine uses to deliver long-term environmental sustainability, economic benefits, and social welfare (Trifonova et al., 2022a, Trifonova et al. 2022b). The developed ecosystem-level natural capital evaluation framework is part of a suggested new strategic tool to structure Cumulative Impact Assessment (CIA) (Declerck et al., 2021) and provides a multi-dimensional decision-making toolkit that provides more efficient SEAs (Strategic Environmental Assessment) (Declerck et al., 2023). - University of Oxford geotechnical research has focused on soil-structure interaction problems for pile foundations exploring both monotonic loading and cyclic loading, for axial and lateral loading. The work has involved computational and theoretical activities as well as field-scale testing. A new approach for modelling of axial pile loading, called the hybrid winkler interface model, has been developed, in which the far-field response is represented by springs, and the interface behaviour through a bespoke calibrated constitutive model. The new approach closely replicates experimental results covering both monotonic and cyclic axial loading of model piles, following initial calibration against standard laboratory element tests. A second focus of work related to the extension of the ALPACA pile testing in chalk, with an emphasis on monotonic and cyclic lateral loading. New data was derived through the testing, which identified the pile monotonic behaviour as a function of the pile slenderness, and which could be interpreted through recent theories developed in the "PISA" project. The cyclic loading data provided evidence of the accumulation of deformation as a function of cycle number, and load amplitude, and which could be captured by a recently established simple empirical model. Gapping was found to have a significant effect on the pile lateral-loading response. - Reliable prediction of the critical loads and extreme performance of ORE structures is of fundamental importance at the design stage. In work by the University of Plymouth, short design wave (SDW) methods for characteristic load prediction in line with design standards has been developed and tested on a range of floating devices. Analysis of physical modelling data for a hinged-raft showed that the single SDW approaches under-estimate the extreme loading for the hinge-angle and mooring system compared with the irregular and constrained approaches. The discrepancy between single and constrained waves implies that memory effects are non-negligible, and hence it is critical that they are accounted for when utilising short design waves for floating applications. This analysis is published in Frontiers in Energy Research. - An EPSRC Impact Accelerator Award at the University of Plymouth, conducted in collaboration with DNV GL, assessed the applicability of the SDW methods to a wider range of device, response, and mooring types to help develop new design recommendations. This work considered both publicly available device descriptions and commercially sensitive devices. The latter are provided by the Carbon Trust and are devices developed through the Floating Wind Joint Industry Programme. Short design events (comprising both wind and wave) methods based on MLER were developed, with the constrained approach showing promise with respect to traditional methods. Analysis of the previously collected physical modelling data for FOWTs showed that the (constrained) SDW results were largely within 10% of traditional methods for the two sea states considered. An acceptable accuracy is currently uncertain, partly because the data also showed that traditional methods can be sensitive to random seeding. Further work will be conducted to understand the extent of this sensitivity, to provide a better benchmark for SDW accuracy, and determine which stages of the design process they would be most suitable for. This analysis has been published in Ocean Engineering. Further physical modelling data has been collected for the FOWT model at a different (shallower) deployment site. This includes a modified mooring system for comparison with existing data. - Subsea cable stability design has traditionally been based on oil and gas pipeline experience. However, the physics of cable-seabed interaction are very different, due to the smaller diameter and higher flexibility of cables. University of Southampton research revealed a new understanding of cable-seabed interaction through laboratory, numerical and field observational analysis and modelling. The research unlocked new design methods that stripped out significant design conservatism, by identifying higher seabed friction and lower hydrodynamic loading. The improved design basis allows a reduction in cable weight, leading to benefits in material, fabrication and installation requirements. The research outcomes have already been applied to offshore renewable energy developments throughout the world, including the UK's MeyGen tidal stream energy project, and are being incorporated into new design guidance, including the draft British Standards Institute BS 10009 being developed under PEL 114 technical committee guidance. In addition, to support floating offshore renewables, University of Southampton research has focused on unlocking additional sources of anchor capacity linked to aspects of seabed behaviour that are currently not accounted for in design. Theoretical and numerical modelling of anchor behaviour, inspired by observations from model testing, has led to new 'whole-life', time-dependent capacity models for anchor behaviour which reveal significant sources of 'hidden' strength, linked to time-dependent consolidation and added mass effects. These can potentially yield a doubling of the available capacity. These research outcomes, achieved in partnership with a leading global geotechnical designer, have been used to support the design of new wind developments in frontier areas where foundation and anchor design is particularly challenging. - The University of Oxford delivered the Tidal Turbine Benchmarking Project. This is a community engagement project which has engaged many engineering teams from 12 participant organisations from 6 different countries to date. The project seeks to validate, quantify uncertainty in and develop best practice in the use of engineering models for the analysis of the hydrodynamic loads experienced by tidal turbines. The project conducting large-scale model experiments on a highly instrumented 1.6m diameter tidal rotor. The turbine was tested in well-defined flow conditions, including wave-generated unsteadiness and grid-generated free-stream turbulence, and was towed through the 12.2m wide, 5.4m deep long towing tank at QinetiQ's Haslar facility. These experiments are unprecedented in their scale and available measurement data. The second stage of the project involved a community wide blind exercise to predict the performance and loads of the turbine. This attracted 26 blind predictions of the turbine's loading in a variety of flow conditions from across the 12 participant organisations. The project has delivered a trusted high-quality data set, that will be used in future model validation, to the quantification of model error for a range of different engineering and research modelling techniques, and to improvements in those techniques and their use that has already led to a significant reduction in modelling uncertainty. The data generated in the Tidal Turbine Benchmarking Project is being made open access to facilitate future model validation and development across the community. |
| Exploitation Route | Research findings will be used by other researchers and taken up by industry. Communication and dissemination of the research area landscape is being used as a useful tool for policy makers and for the development of new areas of ORE in Floating and Fixed Offshore Wind, wave energy and tidal stream energy. |
| Sectors | Aerospace Defence and Marine Energy Environment Government Democracy and Justice |
| URL | http://www.supergen-ore.net |
| Description | The Supergen ORE Hub provides research leadership in ORE, with 95 universities engaged across the UK and strong international collaborations. Research themes and research challenge priorities have been collated through the Supergen Leaders Engagement and consultation project and through ongoing consultation with academic and industry partners. These research challenges and themes are being displayed through a new Research Landscape web tool designed for dissemination and promotion of ORE research, successfully unifying the ORE community around common research themes and acting as a trusted communications platform for ORE. For example, BEIS has found the Research Landscape Tool particularly useful in showcasing and explaining research in this area. The Hub is a trusted conduit between the research community, industry and policy makers and a source of quality ORE research. It has a strong Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) with 38 members and Research Alignment Group to reflect against and to keep up with changing ORE community needs. Influencing Policy in Offshore Renewable Energy. For example, with the creation of a Wave Energy Roadmap and through providing responses to BEIS consultations on Contracts for Difference in the ORE Sector, and representing the UK on behalf of BEIS on the International Energy Agency Technology collaboration programme for Ocean Energy Chairing the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) joint programme for ocean energy. The Hub has produced 11 policy briefings, contributed to COP26, 27, 28 and the G7 Summit and has influenced ORE sector policy across UK. Developing Early Career Researchers through the ORE Hub's Early Career Research Network, with dedicated events and training, dedicated research fund and mentoring scheme. Over 200 members in the ECR community and £188,000 invested into 46 projects developing research and skills. Promoting Equality Diversity and Inclusion in the Sector, a children's book aimed at early readers (age 4-6) with over 500 copies distributed and now translated into Welsh; outreach work, such as the 2019 Green Man Festival Einstein's Field Supergen ORE stand in 2019, 21, 22 and 23; 35% Annual Assembly speakers identified as women and EDI surveys across the Supergen programme and the use of a double-blind reviewing process for the flexi fund, with an improved gender split in funding applications (30% female). Collaborating with other Hubs on overarching topics such as energy integration, preparation for COP26 and EDI as well as running cross-hub workshops and funding. For example, Supergen ORE Hub initiated two joint hub workshops with Energy Networks and Energy Storage Network+ in ORE integration and storage in October and November 2020, and in ORE Robotics with the ORCA Hub in January 2021 to scope proposals for further development. Seedcorn funding contributed from each hub was awarded to joint hub proposals to develop cross sectoral research. Working closely with the industry advisory board, the Carbon Trust and the ORE Catapult, finding opportunities to link industry partners with academic projects and signposting expertise to IAB members across the academic community in ORE has led to further collaboration and to industry investment in ORE research. For example, Supergen ORE Hub initiated a workshop with the Carbon Trust industry partners in April 2021 focused on sharing information on research and innovation priorities and identifying collaboration and alignment opportunities; The ORE Catapult contributed resource to the Flexible Fund Round 2 and the ORE Catapult Centre of Excellence for Floating Offshore Wind contributed to the third round of ORE Flexible Funding; Ørsted have invested in strategic environmental research with state-of-the-art design of multi-trophic monitoring campaigns; Key ORE project developers are connected with flex fund projects and working closely with the ORE Hub to scope their research strategy. The Hub Flexible funding £4m invested into 40 projects with strong industry involvement by 74 industry partners bringing £4.3m total industry match. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2019 |
| Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Energy,Environment |
| Impact Types | Societal Policy & public services |
| Description | Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Market Engagement - Floating Offshore Wind |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Response to Contracts for Difference for Low Carbon Electricity Generation consultation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Engineering |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/uploads/Equality-Diversity-and-Inclusion-in-Engineering_Full-Report_web.pdf |
| Description | Participation in a national consultation - Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Response to Government consultation on proposed amendments to Supply Chain Plans and CfD Delivery |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Response to BEIS Marine energy consultation - A call for evidence on the potential of marine energy projects in Great Britain |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/potential-of-marine-energy-projects-in-great-britain-cal... |
| Description | UK Parliament POSTnote - Research Briefing: Marine renewables |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | https://post.parliament.uk/research-briefings/post-pn-0625/ |
| Description | Wave Energy Road Map - Realising the potential of Wave Energy in the next 10 to 15 years |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/uploads/resources/Wave_Energy_Road_Map_-_Realising_the_potential_of_Wave_En... |
| Description | CableDyn: Subsea Power Cable Dynamics Under Complex Ocean Environment |
| Amount | £1,224,901 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/W015102/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2022 |
| End | 05/2025 |
| Description | EP/V050079/1 - Severe Storm Wave Loads on Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations (SEA-SWALLOWS) |
| Amount | £794,581 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V050079/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2021 |
| End | 06/2024 |
| Description | EPSRC and NERC Centre for Doctoral Training in Offshore Renewable Energy (IDCORE) |
| Amount | £6,118,276 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/S023933/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2019 |
| End | 03/2028 |
| Description | EPSRC-SFI: ROBOCONE: intelligent robotics for next generation ground investigation and design |
| Amount | £1,203,430 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/W006235/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2022 |
| End | 12/2025 |
| Description | Extreme Loading on FOWT under Complex Environmental Conditions |
| Amount | £353,156 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/T004150/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2019 |
| End | 10/2024 |
| Description | Extreme Loading on FOWT under Complex Environmental Conditions |
| Amount | £332,158 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/T00424X/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2020 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | Extreme Loading on Floating Offshore Wind Turbines (FOWTs) under Complex Environmental Conditions |
| Amount | £63,391 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/T004339/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2019 |
| End | 11/2023 |
| Description | Extreme Loading on Floating Offshore Wind Turbines (FOWTs) under Complex Environmental Conditions |
| Amount | £389,691 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/T004177/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2020 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | Extreme Loading on Floating Offshore Wind Turbines (FOWTs) under Complex Environmental Conditions |
| Amount | £44,275 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/T004274/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2020 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | Flexible Responsive Systems in Wave Energy: FlexWave |
| Amount | £673,385 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V040367/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2021 |
| End | 08/2024 |
| Description | Heterogeneous Fibre Optic sensor Arrays to Monitor Composite Manufacture (H-FOAM) |
| Amount | £1,000,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/W025108/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2022 |
| End | 06/2025 |
| Description | Heterogeneous Fibre Optic sensor Arrays to Monitor Composite Manufacture (H-FOAM) |
| Amount | £1,011,752 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/W025108/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2023 |
| End | 12/2025 |
| Description | High efficiency reversible solid oxide cells for the integration of offshore renewable energy using hydrogen |
| Amount | £288,304 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/W003732/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2022 |
| End | 03/2025 |
| Description | Mooring analysis and design for offshore WEC survivability and fatigue (MoorWEC) |
| Amount | £1,013,339 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V039946/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2021 |
| End | 08/2024 |
| Description | Offshore Wind Accelerator: Idealised Mega-Cluster Modelling |
| Amount | £1 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Carbon Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2023 |
| End | 06/2024 |
| Description | PELAgIO: Physics-to-Ecosystem Level Assessment of Impacts of Offshore Windfarms |
| Amount | £547,188 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/X008835/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2022 |
| End | 08/2025 |
| Description | Tidal Stream Industry Energiser Project (TIGER) |
| Amount | € 46,000,000 (EUR) |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Department | European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 06/2019 |
| End | 06/2023 |
| Description | UKERC Whole Systems networking Fund: A whole systems approach to realising the potential of hydrogen for optimising the offshore energy system, |
| Amount | £74,872 (GBP) |
| Organisation | UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2018 |
| End | 03/2019 |
| Description | UoP EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account project on short design events for the prediction of design loads |
| Amount | £103,438 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Plymouth |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2022 |
| End | 08/2023 |
| Title | Rigid and hinged very large floating structure (VLFS) dataset - Kelvin Hydrodynamics Laboratory |
| Description | This dataset corresponds to the measurements performed at the Kelvin Hydrodynamics Laboratory at the University of Strathclyde, in August 2022, to assess the motion performance and internal loading of a rigid and hinged very large floating structure (VLFS) under regular waves. The VLFS was constructed with three pontoons and two hinges. The hinges were replaced with aluminium steel bars to built the rigid VLFS. The dimensions of each pontoon of the VLFS were 580 mm x 580 mm x 52 mm. Each pontoon was built with 2 mm layer of carbon fibre and a 50 mm layer of PVC foam. The VLFS was tested in regular waves at two incidences: 0 degrees and 30 degrees. For 0 degree incidence, the wave frequencies tested ranged from 0.4 to1.6 Hz in intervals of 0.1 Hz. Four wave heights were tested, h=5, 10, 20 and 40 mm. For 30 degree incidence, the same range of frequencies were tested, but only one wave height, h=5 mm. Preliminary results for some of the data at 0 degrees incidence can be found in the conference paper: https://doi.org/10.36688/ewtec-2023-389. Further analysis of this dataset and additional results are in preparation for a journal manuscript. The following files are included as part of the dataset: Motion files (Matlab files). Strain gauge and wave height files (Matlab files). Data description file - Description of files. Test matrix - Test cases summarised with nomenclature used in files. Matlab script to sort out position of motion spheres as depicted in Figure 1. Video of the hinged VLFS subject to a train of regular waves at f=0.8 Hz, i.e. when the wavelength is of similar length to the length of the platform, i.e. f=0.8 Hz. The motion files contain the time series information recorded for each of the motion detection spheres. Because the motion raw data is not labelled sequentially, it is necessary to run the Matlab file included in the data repository to sort out the information of the spheres. The strain gauge files contain the raw strain gauge data (8 channels) and the wave gauge data with the file number describing the corresponding test in the test matrix. The VLFS was equipped with 36 motion detection spheres and 8 strain gauges. The diagram and notation of each sphere is depicted in Figure 1. Figure 1 is available in the Data description document. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10067450 |
| Title | Tidal Benchmarking Project Dataset: R001_2 |
| Description | Harvey, S., Chen, X., Bhavsar, K., Allsop, T., Benson, I., Mullings, H., Stallard, T., Young, A., Gilbert, J., Vogel, C. and Willden, R. (2022) The tidal turbine benchmarking project has conducted a large laboratory scale experiment on a highly instrumented 1.6 diameter tidal rotor, with the aim of providing a well-documented experimental dataset that will be used in a benchmarking exercise that will compare a range of modelling methodologies for tidal turbines. This initial dataset, identified as R001, contains the turbine and blade geometry, the benchmarking test cases and 2D CFD data for the blade hydrofoil profile. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Model developments by several research groups. Conference papers (inc. EWTEC 2021, 2023) Journal papers |
| URL | https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8c96a4c0-01f5-497e-b5ca-28a70c64d415 |
| Description | Industrial Advisory Board Member |
| Organisation | Ørsted |
| Country | Denmark |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of Advisory Board meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Project Management Board, with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of project Advisory Board. Attendance at Advisory Board meetings and Supergen ORE Hub events |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Mocean |
| Organisation | Mocean Energy |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Research collaboration with Mocean to use their wave energy device in our experiments and numerical modelling to assess design load conditions using short wave events to represent extreme conditions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Mocean have loaned their model wave energy device for the probabilistic design study. |
| Impact | Research underway and experiments planned to take place in March 2020. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult |
| Organisation | Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | research in flexible wave energy systems |
| Collaborator Contribution | discussion and insight |
| Impact | research workshops |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Project Industry Advisory Board Member |
| Organisation | DNV GL |
| Department | DNV GL, UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of Advisory Board meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Project Management Board, with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of project Advisory Board. Attendance at Advisory Board meetings and Supergen ORE Hub events |
| Impact | No outputs |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Project Industry Advisory Board Member |
| Organisation | Ocean Winds |
| Country | Spain |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of Advisory Board meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Project Management Board, with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of project Advisory Board. Attendance at Advisory Board meetings and Supergen ORE Hub events |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Project Industry Advisory Board Member |
| Organisation | Ocean Winds |
| Country | Spain |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of Advisory Board meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Project Management Board, with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of project Advisory Board. Attendance at Advisory Board meetings and Supergen ORE Hub events |
| Impact | No outputs |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Project Industry Advisory Board Member |
| Organisation | Simec Atlantis Energy |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of Advisory Board meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Project Management Board, with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of project Advisory Board. Attendance at Advisory Board meetings and Supergen ORE Hub events |
| Impact | No outputs |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Project Industry Advisory Board Member |
| Organisation | Ørsted |
| Country | Denmark |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of Advisory Board meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Project Management Board, with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of project Advisory Board. Attendance at Advisory Board meetings and Supergen ORE Hub events |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Project Industry Advisory Board Member - Carbon Trust |
| Organisation | Carbon Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of Advisory Board meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Project Management Board, with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of project Advisory Board. Attendance at Advisory Board meetings and Supergen ORE Hub events |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Industry Advisory Board Member - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy |
| Organisation | Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of Advisory Board meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Project Management Board, with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of project Advisory Board. Attendance at Advisory Board meetings and Supergen ORE Hub events |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Industry Advisory Board Member - EDF Energy Plc |
| Organisation | EDF Energy |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of Advisory Board meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Project Management Board, with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of project Advisory Board. Attendance at Advisory Board meetings and Supergen ORE Hub events |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Industry Advisory Board Member - EPSRC |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of Advisory Board meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Project Management Board, with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of project Advisory Board. Attendance at Advisory Board meetings and Supergen ORE Hub events |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Industry Advisory Board Member - Garrad Balfour Ltd. |
| Organisation | Garrad Balfour Ltd. |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of Advisory Board meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Project Management Board, with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of project Advisory Board. Attendance at Advisory Board meetings and Supergen ORE Hub events |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Industry Advisory Board Member - Green Alliance |
| Organisation | Green Alliance |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of Advisory Board meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Project Management Board, with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of project Advisory Board. Attendance at Advisory Board meetings and Supergen ORE Hub events |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Industry Advisory Board Member - Lloyd's Register |
| Organisation | Lloyd's Register |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of Advisory Board meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Project Management Board, with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of project Advisory Board. Attendance at Advisory Board meetings and Supergen ORE Hub events |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Industry Advisory Board Member - Marine Energy Council |
| Organisation | Offshore Energy |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of Advisory Board meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Project Management Board, with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of project Advisory Board. Attendance at Advisory Board meetings and Supergen ORE Hub events |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Industry Advisory Board Member - Marine Power Systems |
| Organisation | Marine Power Systems Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of Advisory Board meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Project Management Board, with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of project Advisory Board. Attendance at Advisory Board meetings and Supergen ORE Hub events |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Industry Advisory Board Member - Marine Scotland Science |
| Organisation | Marine Scotland Science (MSS) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of Advisory Board meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Project Management Board, with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of project Advisory Board. Attendance at Advisory Board meetings and Supergen ORE Hub events |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Industry Advisory Board Member - Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult |
| Organisation | Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of Advisory Board meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Project Management Board, with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of project Advisory Board. Attendance at Advisory Board meetings and Supergen ORE Hub events |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Industry Advisory Board Member - Rayner Low Carbon Technologies |
| Organisation | Rayner Low Carbon Technologies |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of Advisory Board meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Project Management Board, with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Lead Industrial Partner of project Advisory Board. Co-ordination of Board and attendance at Advisory Board meetings and Supergen ORE Hub events |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Industry Advisory Board Member - Siemens Gamsea |
| Organisation | Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy |
| Country | Spain |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of Advisory Board meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Project Management Board, with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of project Advisory Board. Attendance at Advisory Board meetings and Supergen ORE Hub events |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Industry Advisory Board Member - The Crown Estate |
| Organisation | Crown Estate |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of Advisory Board meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Project Management Board, with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of project Advisory Board. Attendance at Advisory Board meetings and Supergen ORE Hub events |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Industry Advisory Board Member - University of Edinburgh |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of Advisory Board meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Project Management Board, with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of project Advisory Board. Attendance at Advisory Board meetings and Supergen ORE Hub events |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Industry Advisory Board Member - University of Strathclyde |
| Organisation | University of Strathclyde |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of Advisory Board meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Project Management Board, with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of project Advisory Board. Attendance at Advisory Board meetings and Supergen ORE Hub events |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Industry Management Board Member - Technical University of Denmark |
| Organisation | Technical University of Denmark |
| Country | Denmark |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Membership of Supergen ORE Board - Attend project meetings & help to steer research |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time to review project progress, attend board meetings and events |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Industry Member - Arup (Ove Arup and Partners Ltd) (UK) |
| Organisation | Arup Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of actions/activities undertaken as part of Project |
| Collaborator Contribution | Attendance at Assembly and workshops |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Industry Member - Atkins Global (UK) |
| Organisation | WS Atkins |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of actions/activities undertaken as part of Project |
| Collaborator Contribution | Attendance at Assemblies and workshops |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Industry Member - Atlantis Operations (UK) Ltd |
| Organisation | Atlantis Operations (UK) Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of actions/activities undertaken as part of Project |
| Collaborator Contribution | Attendance at Annual Assemblies and Networking events |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Industry Member - BP Global |
| Organisation | BP (British Petroleum) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of actions/activities undertaken as part of Project |
| Collaborator Contribution | Attendance at Annual Assemblies and events |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Industry Member - Carnegie Wave Energy Ltd (UK) |
| Organisation | Carnegie |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of actions/activities undertaken as part of Project |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributions to Annual Assembly and networking |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Industry Member - Fugro (UK) |
| Organisation | Fugro |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of actions/activities undertaken as part of Project |
| Collaborator Contribution | Attendance at Assemblies and events |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Industry Member - Norwegian Geotechnical Institute |
| Organisation | Norwegian Geotechnical Institute |
| Country | Norway |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of actions/activities undertaken as part of Project |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributions to Annual Assembly and networking |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Industry Member - RenewableUK |
| Organisation | RenewableUK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of actions/activities undertaken as part of Project |
| Collaborator Contribution | Attendance at Assembly and events |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Industry Member - University of Western Australia |
| Organisation | University of Western Australia |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributions to hub events |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Industry Member - Wave Energy Scotland |
| Organisation | Wave Energy Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of actions/activities undertaken as part of Project |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributions to Assembly and events |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Management Board Member - University of Aberdeen |
| Organisation | University of Aberdeen |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of Management Board meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Advisory Board, Research Alignment Group and stakeholders with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of project Management Board. Attendance at Management Board meetings, Supergen ORE Hub events and engagement activities and collaborative research activities and obligations undertaken in line with Project plan, collaboration agreement and EPSRC grant offer letter |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Management Board Member - University of Edinburgh |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of Management Board meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Advisory Board, Research Alignment Group and stakeholders with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of project Management Board. Attendance at Management Board meetings, Supergen ORE Hub events and engagement activities and collaborative research activities and obligations undertaken in line with Project plan, collaboration agreement and EPSRC grant offer letter |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Management Board Member - University of Exeter |
| Organisation | University of Exeter |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of Management Board meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Advisory Board, Research Alignment Group and stakeholders with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of project Management Board. Attendance at Management Board meetings, Supergen ORE Hub events and engagement activities and collaborative research activities and obligations undertaken in line with Project plan, collaboration agreement and EPSRC grant offer letter |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Management Board Member - University of Hull |
| Organisation | University of Hull |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of Management Board meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Advisory Board, Research Alignment Group and stakeholders with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of project Management Board. Attendance at Management Board meetings, Supergen ORE Hub events and engagement activities and collaborative research activities and obligations undertaken in line with Project plan, collaboration agreement and EPSRC grant offer letter |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Management Board Member - University of Manchester |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of Management Board meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Advisory Board, Research Alignment Group and stakeholders with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of project Management Board. Attendance at Management Board meetings, Supergen ORE Hub events and engagement activities and collaborative research activities and obligations undertaken in line with Project plan, collaboration agreement and EPSRC grant offer letter |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Management Board Member - University of Oxford |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of Management Board meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Advisory Board, Research Alignment Group and stakeholders with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of project Management Board. Attendance at Management Board meetings, Supergen ORE Hub events and engagement activities and collaborative research activities and obligations undertaken in line with Project plan, collaboration agreement and EPSRC grant offer letter |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Management Board Member - University of Oxford |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of Management Board meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Advisory Board, Research Alignment Group and stakeholders with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of project Management Board. Attendance at Management Board meetings, Supergen ORE Hub events and engagement activities and collaborative research activities and obligations undertaken in line with Project plan, collaboration agreement and EPSRC grant offer letter |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Management Board Member - University of Southampton |
| Organisation | University of Southampton |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of Management Board meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Advisory Board, Research Alignment Group and stakeholders with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of project Management Board. Attendance at Management Board meetings, Supergen ORE Hub events and engagement activities and collaborative research activities and obligations undertaken in line with Project plan, collaboration agreement and EPSRC grant offer letter |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Management Board Member - University of Strathclyde |
| Organisation | University of Strathclyde |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of Management Board meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Advisory Board, Research Alignment Group and stakeholders with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of project Management Board. Attendance at Management Board meetings, Supergen ORE Hub events and engagement activities and collaborative research activities and obligations undertaken in line with Project plan, collaboration agreement and EPSRC grant offer letter |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Management Board Member - University of Warwick |
| Organisation | University of Warwick |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of Management Board meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Advisory Board, Research Alignment Group and stakeholders with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of project Management Board. Attendance at Management Board meetings, Supergen ORE Hub events and engagement activities and collaborative research activities and obligations undertaken in line with Project plan, collaboration agreement and EPSRC grant offer letter |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Research Alignment Group (RAG) Member - European Marine Energy Centre |
| Organisation | European Marine Energy Centre, Orkney |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of RAG meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Project Management Board, with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of RAG. Attendance at RAG meetings and Supergen ORE Hub events |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Research Alignment Group (RAG) Member - Imperial College London |
| Organisation | Imperial College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of RAG meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Project Management Board, with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of RAG. Attendance at RAG meetings and Supergen ORE Hub events |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Project Research Alignment Group (RAG) Member - Oxford University |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Oxford University Innovation |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of RAG meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Project Management Board, with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of RAG. Attendance at RAG meetings and Supergen ORE Hub events |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Project Research Alignment Group (RAG) Member - University of Bristol |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of RAG meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Project Management Board, with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of RAG. Attendance at RAG meetings and Supergen ORE Hub events |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Project Research Alignment Group (RAG) Member - Wave Hub |
| Organisation | Wave Hub Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Support in organisation of RAG meetings, materials and outcomes to be used in feedback to Project Management Board, with subsequent actions/activities undertaken as part of Project research steer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Member of project RAG |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Reviewer - DNV GL (UK) |
| Organisation | DNV GL |
| Country | Norway |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Support where required for reviewer |
| Collaborator Contribution | Duties related to Project review |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Reviewer - Manchester Metropolitan University |
| Organisation | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Support for reviewer where required |
| Collaborator Contribution | Duties relating to Project review |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project Reviewer - University of Lisbon |
| Organisation | University of Lisbon |
| Country | Portugal |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Support to reviewer where required |
| Collaborator Contribution | Duties relating to Project review |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | "Work is needed to increase diversity in the renewables industry" (Environment Journal article published) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Article published in Environment Journal on "Work is needed to increase diversity in the renewables industry" relating to launch of Roadmap to enhance equality, diversity and inclusion within offshore renewable energy sector report |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | 10th PRIMaRE Conference 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Exhibition stand and presentations at the 10th PRIMARE conference at the University of Bath |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/10th-primare-conference-2023 |
| Description | 14th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference - Tidal Benchmarking workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Tidal Turbine Benchmarking Project is a community engagement project which seeks to develop best practice in the use of engineering models for the analysis of the hydrodynamic loads experienced by tidal turbines. The Project has been jointly funded by the EPSRC Fellowship grant EP/R007322/1 (Tidal Stream Energy - Designing for Performance) and the EPSRC Supergen ORE Hub EP/S000747/1.The Project seeks to improve engineering models for tidal rotors through highly instrumented controlled experiments, followed by model blind-prediction and evaluation across an international industry and academic community. The rationale for the project is that uncertainty in the prediction of the steady and unsteady loading of tidal turbines, especially in hostile unsteady environments dominated by waves, shear and turbulence, leads to conservatism in design. Uncertainties can stem from difficult-to-measure field conditions, uncertainty in physical process that generate fluid loads, and associated modelling errors. In order to reduce this conservatism, the limitations and errors associated with the mathematical and engineering models used in turbine design must be understood and improved. This requires large-scale experimental data for model assessment and validation. The project has conducting large-scale model experiments on a highly instrumented 1.6m diameter tidal rotor. The turbine is instrumented for the measurement of spanwise distributions of flapwise and edgewise bending moments using one hundred strain gauges and a fibre Bragg optical system, as well as overall rotor torque and thrust. The turbine has been tested in well-defined flow conditions, including wave-generated unsteadiness and grid-generated freestream turbulence, and was towed through the 12.2m wide, 5.4m deep long towing tank at QinetiQ's Haslar facility. These experiments are unprecedented in their scale and available measurement data (Tucker Harvey et al. 2023). The Benchmarking project has not just produced engineering model improvement and related analyses, but has brought the community of engineers and researchers working on tidal turbine loading together. This has been extremely positive and has led to a number of very cooperative and community supporting developments. The project has run around 10 workshops; physical workshops engaging a wide participant base at the EWTEC conferences in Plymouth (2021) and in Bilbao (2023), and virtual workshops engaging with participants in the benchmarking exercise, device developers and engineering consultancies |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | 15th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference - Bilbao - Tidal Benchmarking workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Tidal Turbine Benchmarking Project is a community engagement project which seeks to develop best practice in the use of engineering models for the analysis of the hydrodynamic loads experienced by tidal turbines. The Project has been jointly funded by the EPSRC Fellowship grant EP/R007322/1 (Tidal Stream Energy - Designing for Performance) and the EPSRC Supergen ORE Hub EP/S000747/1.The Project seeks to improve engineering models for tidal rotors through highly instrumented controlled experiments, followed by model blind-prediction and evaluation across an international industry and academic community. The rationale for the project is that uncertainty in the prediction of the steady and unsteady loading of tidal turbines, especially in hostile unsteady environments dominated by waves, shear and turbulence, leads to conservatism in design. Uncertainties can stem from difficult-to-measure field conditions, uncertainty in physical process that generate fluid loads, and associated modelling errors. In order to reduce this conservatism, the limitations and errors associated with the mathematical and engineering models used in turbine design must be understood and improved. This requires large-scale experimental data for model assessment and validation. The project has conducting large-scale model experiments on a highly instrumented 1.6m diameter tidal rotor. The turbine is instrumented for the measurement of spanwise distributions of flapwise and edgewise bending moments using one hundred strain gauges and a fibre Bragg optical system, as well as overall rotor torque and thrust. The turbine has been tested in well-defined flow conditions, including wave-generated unsteadiness and grid-generated freestream turbulence, and was towed through the 12.2m wide, 5.4m deep long towing tank at QinetiQ's Haslar facility. These experiments are unprecedented in their scale and available measurement data (Tucker Harvey et al. 2023). The Benchmarking project has not just produced engineering model improvement and related analyses, but has brought the community of engineers and researchers working on tidal turbine loading together. This has been extremely positive and has led to a number of very cooperative and community supporting developments. The project has run around 10 workshops; physical workshops engaging a wide participant base at the EWTEC conferences in Plymouth (2021) and in Bilbao (2023), and virtual workshops engaging with participants in the benchmarking exercise, device developers and engineering consultancies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | 6th Conference on Wind Energy and Wildlife Impacts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Conference on Wind energy and Wildlife impacts (CWW) is an internationally recognized event to share and engage in the latest science, focused on better understanding the risk of wind energy to wildlife and developing solutions to avoid, minimize, and offset the ecological impacts of wind farms, both onshore and offshore. The event also encourages researchers, conservation scientists, federal and state officials, NGO representatives and wind industry professionals that have experience of finding innovative and efficient solutions to these environmental concerns to work together and share knowledge. It also looks into the opportunities to enhance nature when developing wind farms. This all promotes a collaborative approach to resolving the key issues faced at wind farms. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/wind-energy-wildlife-impacts |
| Description | 7th PRIMaRE Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Over 210 delegates attended the 7th PRIMaRE Conference, which was hosted by University of Plymouth and Plymouth Marine Laboratory on the 7th and 8th July 2020 but held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on peer-reviewed abstracts, 31 presentations and 25 posters were presented over 6 plenary sessions by participants from 28 institutions ranging geographically from Australia to USA. Furthermore, there were six presentations from invited speakers (listed below) and a panel debate featuring a range of leading figures from the marine renewables sector. The event provided an excellent forum to foster collaboration between industry and academia, which is essential to ensure that the marine energy sector can achieve its full commercial potential, maximising job creation and export opportunities, whilst allowing the UK to remain a global leader in the associated engineering and policy expertise. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.primare.org/events-news/primare-conference/7th-primare-conference/ |
| Description | 9th PRIMaRE Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The PRIMaRE conference series is now in its 9th year and provides a forum for presenting and discussing the latest research & development in all areas related to Marine Renewable Energy. This year, the PRIMaRE conference will be held at University of Exeter Penryn Campus, between the 6th and 7th July 2022. The conference includes universities, industry and research centres active in all aspects of marine renewable energy and is expected to attract over 100 participants ranging from industrial developers, university researchers, marine environmentalists and policy makers. The aim of the event is to cover a wide range of topics in marine renewable energy, including: technology, policy, environment, hydrodynamics, resource characterisation, materials, operations and management, etc. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/9th-primare-conference |
| Description | AORES Conference, Western Australia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Attended and presented at AORES conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Accelerating Energy Innovation for the Blue Economy (Economist World Ocean Report article) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Accelerating Energy Innovation for the Blue Economy (Economist World Ocean Report article published) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Accelerating Energy Innovation for the Blue Economy (Economist World Ocean Report article) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Contribution to Accelerating Energy Innovation for the Blue Economy (Economist World Ocean Report article) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | All Energy 2023 - SEC Glasgow |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Exhibition stand at the All Energy 2023 conference and exhibition |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/all-energy-exhibition-and-conference-2024 |
| Description | Attended Floating Wind in the Celtic Sea conference, Milford Haven, Wales |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Attended the Floating Wind in the Celtic Sea: Future Supply Chain Opportunities conference in Milford Haven, Wales. Joined the debate as to the opportunities for floating wind technology in the Celtic sea including the current research in this area. Sparked further discussion with other delegates about the work of the Supergen ORE Hub |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Aura CDT Conference in Offshore Wind Energy and the Environment |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The annual Aura Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) conference brings together exciting keynote speakers from the offshore wind industry and provides a platform for PhD researchers to showcase their research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/aura-cdt-conference |
| Description | COP26 live-stream: Net zero energy systems? A Supergen 'Fishbowl' Conversation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The 4th of November marks 'Energy Day' at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), taking place in Glasgow from the 1-12 of November, during which the UK Research and Innovation Supergen programme will be hosting a public 'fishbowl' conversation at the Ramshorn Theatre, central Glasgow. A 'fishbowl' conversation is a participant driven meeting designed for mass-engagement, where an initial set of panelists swap out over time for other members, enabling multiple viewpoints and perspectives to be aired and offering opportunity for a variety of participants to engage. The conversation will focus on developing and interrogating public visions for a net zero energy system, based upon the six areas of Supergen research that furthers sustainable power distribution and supply: Offshore Renewables Solar Energy Networks Bioenergy Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Energy Storage |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/cop26-live-stream-net-zero-energy-systems-a-supergen-fishbowl-conver... |
| Description | COP26: Green Zone Exhibitor |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | As part of the COP26 Universities Network stand, the Supergen ORE Hub exhibited in the Green Zone on the first floor of Glasgow Science Centre. Demonstrating offshore wind, wave and tidal energy and the vital role offshore renewable energy technologies have in meeting the net zero greenhouse gas emissions target. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/cop26 |
| Description | COP27 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Engaged with delegates at COP27 energy day on ORE and its role in net zero GHG |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://cop27.eg/#/ |
| Description | Cornwall & IoS LEP - Offshore Wind Communications and Strategy workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presented at LEP workshop as to the Supergen ORE Hub and contributed to discussion around future plans for Offshore Renewables in Cornwall & IoS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Cross-Hub workshop with Supergen ORE Hub and ORCA Hub: Robotics for Offshore Renewable Energy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Context Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) are one of the fastest engineering developments, driven by increased capabilities in machine learning, artificial intelligence, sensing and remote operating capabilities. There is great potential for the Offshore Renewable Energy sector to reduce both human exposure risk and cost if technologies are suitably tailored and integrated into current and future practices. There are isolated examples (e.g. use of drones for blade inspection; autonomous seabed surveys), but there is large potential for future applications. Current and future research challenges for RAS in the sector span a range of disciplines. The Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Hub and the ORCA Hub have come together to hold a virtual cross-discipline workshop, bringing together Academics, Researchers, Practitioners and companies to explore the common challenges, synergies and opportunities with a goal to achieving step changes towards fully automated offshore renewable energy field; operated, inspected and maintained from the safety of onshore. More information regarding the Hubs involved can be found at the end of this webpage. The scope of this workshop will examine the gaps that exist within current robotic systems used offshore as well gaps in current research and development that will help realise the full potential of robotics in this environment. The workshop will draw on the full range of expertise and benefit from synergies within the cross-disciplined group of attendees |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/cross-hub-workshop-robotics-for-offshore-renewable-energy-surveying-... |
| Description | Delegation to IPF - the International Partnering Forum for Offshore Wind, New York |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The UK Science and Innovation Network (SIN) convened a delegation of offshore wind experts from the UK to attend IPF 2019 in NYC and participate in a series of bilateral meetings with strategic US stakeholders. The range of stakeholders include groups that the UK has a well-developed relationship with in the offshore wind space (POWER US, Mass CEC) to groups with potential to develop a productive working relationship (University of Maine). The objective of these meetings are to scope research and innovation collaborations in the offshore wind space, and ultimately to catalyse self-sustaining innovation partnerships that lead to impactful research results, further deployment of clean energy generation in the US, and commercial wins for the UK in a growing US offshore wind market. Resulted in further discussions with US academics regarding future programmes of work/research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Devon County Show |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Exhibition stand at the Devon County Show, providing information to the general public on ORE technology |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/the-devon-county-show |
| Description | ECR masterclasses - Advanced Theoretical, Computational and Experimental Fluid Mechanics for ORE |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | ECR masterclasses providing training on Advanced Theoretical, Computational and Experimental Fluid Mechanics for ORE. Theoretical training carried out online with Wind & Marine Energy Systems & Structures CDT and experimental carried out on site at COAST Lab facility at the University of Plymouth |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | EIMR Online Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentations made by Prof. Deborah Greaves and Prof. Beth Scott on Supergen ORE Hub |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | EPSRC Supergen Showcase Northern Ireland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | An engagement workshop to highlight the work of the Supergen programme to NI government employees to look at collaborative working with NI policy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | EWTEC 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Hub is a bronze sponsor of the European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, taking place as a hybrid event both online, and in person at the University of Plymouth from 5th - 9th September 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ewtec.org/ewtec-2021/ |
| Description | Energy Innovation Needs Assessment Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at innovation needs workshop at Carbon Trust regarding ORE |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | European Academy of Wind Energy PhD Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | EDI presentation and workshop to ~80 PhD students working in wind energy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Exhibited at EWTEC 2019 conference, Naples |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Exhibited the Supergen ORE Hub at the EWTEC 2019 academic conference. Event resulted in engaging with international academic audience on the Supergen ORE Hub research and aims, increasing the number of academic engagement with the Supergen ORE hub via its network |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Exhibited at Festival of Physics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Provided an exhibition stand at the 2 day Festival of Physics event. The stand included a wave energy tank model with demonstration technologies that was used to engage school children (from years 5 to 11) and the general public on offshore renewable energy technologies, which sparked lots of discussion with children and their teachers/parents on how offshore renewable technologies work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://events.iop.org/festival-physics |
| Description | Exhibiting at All Energy 2019 trade show and conference, Glasgow |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | An exhibition stand was secured and delegates to the trade show and conference were engaged with in raising awareness of the Supergen ORE Hub and its research activities and aims. The exhibition resulted in a large number of industry stakeholders signing up to the Supergen ORE Hub network and increased the number of attendees at subsequent events |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Exhibiting at OMAE 2019 conference, Glasgow |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Exhibited at OMAE 2019 academic conference and engaged with over 100 academics regarding the role of the Supergen ORE Hub and its aims. Resulted in increase in academic stakeholders signing up to the Supergen ORE Hub network and raising attendance at subsequent Supergen ORE Hub events |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Exhibition stand at University of Plymouth Sustainability Hub Launch event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Held a stand at the launch of the new sustainability hub building at the University of Plymouth, where researchers in different areas of energy research were present to hear about the new hub and its activities. Resulted in several queries and numbers of stakeholders signing up to the Supergen ORE Hub network |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Expert speaker for BBC Sounds 'The Curious Case of Rutherford and Fry' BBC Radio 4 scheduled programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited expert speaker on BBC Radio 4 scheduled programme 'The Curious Case of Rutherford and Fry' discussing the harnessing of wave and tidal energy from the oceans |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0015b80 |
| Description | First Supergen Cross-Hub Early Career Researcher webinar - well-being and working from home |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Hosted a well-being and working from home webinar in a new series of cross-hub webinars to allow ECRs from all the Supergen Hubs to connect and share their experience under these challenging circumstances. The webinar will be delivered by Matt Dix, trainer and coach, from the University of Birmingham |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Floating Offshore Wind Event - Providing update on Supergen ORE Hub, St Austell 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Provided a presentation to industry and business stakeholders on research and aims of the Supergen ORE Hub. Resulted in further engagement of industry stakeholders in Supergen ORE hub network and subsequent Supergen ORE Hub events |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Floating Offshore Wind Online Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation and workshops in FOWT 2020 conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.fowt-conferences.com/en/2020 |
| Description | From the wind to the tide - closing workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This event is the closing workshop of the 'From the Wind to the Tide' project, being held between 15.00 and 16.30 GMT on Thursday 3 February via online format. The project investigated the use of Vortex Generators as a flow control device on tidal turbine blades, inspired by their application on Offshore Wind Turbines. State-of-the-art wind tunnel tests and high-fidelity numerical simulations were the tools used in the successful completion of the investigation. A spin-out project, dealing with the effect of biofouling on tidal turbine blades will also be presented. The main project was funded by the EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account and the research consortium consisted of Swansea University, Cardiff University, Sustainable Marine, and the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult with the Supergen ORE Hub providing communication support. Computational resources were provided by Supercomputing Wales. The spin-out project was funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales and the partners were Swansea university, Sustainable Marine and PML Applications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/wind-to-tide |
| Description | G7 FLOW Conference - Research and Innovation for industrialisation - a regional response |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Formal presentation to G7 delegation on Research and Innovation for industrialisation within ORE |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/g7-flow-event |
| Description | Global Offshore Wind 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Exhibitor at Global Offshore Wind 2020 with 100 exhibitors and 300 speakers delivering 30+ hours of exclusive content |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://events.renewableuk.com/gow20 |
| Description | Global Offshore Wind Conference - Workshop 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Delivered a workshop on the links between Hydrogen fuel production and offshore renewables, which sparked further meetings and development of future project ideas surrounding using offshore renewables to generate Hydrogen fuel |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Global Science Show and FUTURES 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Took part in social media campaign via Twitter, explaining the principles of offshore renewable energy technologies through pre-recorded videos |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://futures2020.co.uk/events/global-science-show/ |
| Description | Green Man Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Based in the Einsteins Garden area of the Green man Festival, the Supergen ORE Hub had a stand with various engagement activities (model wave energy tank, materials and games) to engage the general public - over 1200 registered visits recorded |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/green-man-2021 |
| Description | Green Man Festival 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Green Man Festival's 'Einstein's Garden' is the first UK festival science engagement area with a cornucopia of noise and colours, be ready for mind-bending scientific experiments and talks in the hydrogen fuel cell powered Workshop Dome and Omni Stage. The Supergen ORE Hub stall welcomed almost 1,600 festival-goers to create their own waves in mini-wave tanks, get hands-on with devices used in research experiments, take part in competitions, join a storytime with a reading from our children's book to hear about the adventure Gaia has when her polar bear teddy comes to life, and learn more about the research and developments in offshore wind, wave and tidal energy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/green-man-festival-2022 |
| Description | Greenman Festival, Abergavenny, Wales 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Exhibited the Supergen ORE Hub in the 'Einsteins Garden' at the Green Man music festival. Developed models and engagement activities around offshore renewables, i.e. a model wave tank and 'build your own turbine' templates to engage with families and young children attending the festival resulting in over 1000 unique visits to the stand, and a large amount of positive feedback on the increase in the public perception of offshore renewable energy and engineering |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Health and Safety Research in Offshore Renewables Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | With the rapid advancement of offshore wind energy deployment in the UK, and the accelerating growth of the Floating Offshore Wind, Wave and Tidal energy sectors, it is recognised by industry and regulators alike that Health and Safety standards and practices when working in these areas need to adapt and keep pace with the specific challenges and risks associated with working to deploy these technologies. There is therefore a need to bring together stakeholders from across academia, industry, government, and regulators in order to identify and discuss Health and Safety research priorities. This workshop aims to be the basis of developing a roadmap for research challenges in ORE Health and Safety and to initiate new research by bringing key stakeholders together to discuss and endorse key research priorities and acting as a catalyst for further investment needs via discussion with UK Government and Funders. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Humber Cluster Webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Webinar on EDI tool to Humber cluster |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | ICOE 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Basque Energy Cluster and Ocean Energy Europe are teaming up to deliver a joint event on ocean energy, taking place on 18-20 October 2022. The event will combine the International Conference on Ocean Energy (ICOE) and Ocean Energy Europe's (OEE) annual event. The unique event, ICOE-OEE 2022, will gather ocean energy professionals and decision-makers from all corners of the globe in San Sebastián / Donostia, in the Basque Country, Spain. Speaking in conference . |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://icoeoee2022donostia.org/ |
| Description | Inspiring Female Engineers Panel Event (Engineers Without Borders) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Speaker on broadcast panel event discussing inspiring women in engineering |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | International Advisory Panel Member, ImPG-CROWD (Improved Practice Guidelines for Cost Reduction for Offshore Wind Deployments) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | International Advisory Panel Member (Greaves), ImPG-CROWD (Improved Practice Guidelines for Cost Reduction for Offshore Wind Deployments) China Prosperity Fund Project funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) of HM Government, 2021 - 2022 The expert advisory panel which will review the project activities and developed guidelines to ensure that the project outputs reflect best practice and are consistent with the latest learning from industry. The advisory panel will: • Comprise industry and academic experts from the UK and China. • Reflect a broad cross section of expertise covering the main industry subsectors, cost drivers and lifecycle stages of an offshore wind farm development. • Be gender inclusive. • Meet three times during the project execution phase: o Advisory panel Introductory meeting - 10th of March 2021 o Preliminary project guidelines review - July 2021 o Final project guidelines review - November 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | International Symposium on Cone Penetration Testing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Italian Geotechnical Association (AGI) and the University of Bologna are delighted to host the 5th International Symposium on Cone Penetration Testing (CPT'22), to be held in Bologna, Italy, 8 to 10 June 2022. The Symposium is organized under the auspices of the ISSMGE Technical Committee TC102 and follows the successful symposia held in Delft, The Netherlands (2018), Las Vegas, Nevada USA (2014), Huntington Beach, California USA (2010) and Linköping, Sweden (1995). As a tradition of the CPT events, which foster a lively debate on recent advancements on cone penetration testing, the Symposium aims at providing Researchers, Practitioners and Contractors with a unique opportunity of sharing up-to-date knowledge in equipment, testing procedures, data interpretation and related practical applications, as well as at discussing emerging solutions and new ideas with the largest gathering of world's experts, academics and non-academics, working in the broad and dynamic area of CPTs. Co-Directors from the Supergen ORE Hub will be presenting at the conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/international-symposium-on-cone-penetration-testing |
| Description | Interview with Devon Live |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview with Prof. Deborah Greaves by Devon Live media, resulting in great number of website searches of Supergen ORE Hub |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Interview with New Power magazine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Interview with Prof. Deborah Greaves by New Power magazine resulting in an increase in enquiries to the Supergen ORE Hub around its core research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Interview with Prof. Deborah Greaves for New Statesman article |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Interview held with Prof. Deborah Greaves for an article in the New Statesman on the potential for wind, wave and tidal technologies to lead the fight against climate change. Published article resulted in raising the profile of the Supergen ORE hub, and generated requests for further information to the Hub network |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited speaker Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping (CCOM) and the Department of Ocean Engineering (OE) at the University of New Hampshire |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Speaker presentation to the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping (CCOM) and the Department of Ocean Engineering (OE) at the University of New Hampshire |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Invited speaker OES (Offshore Engineering Society) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Speaker presentation to the Offshore Engineering Society, a learned society affiliated to the Institution of Civil Engineers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Invited speaker Road to Net Zero SW, MaritimeUK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Speaker presentation to Maritime UK conference 'Road to Net Zero SW' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Invited speaker Westminster eForum policy conference on Women in the tech sector |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Speaker presentation to the Westminster eForum policy conference on Women in the tech sector |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Invited speaker at NOWRDC (National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium) webinar/panel discussion on International OSW Research Agendas for 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Speaker presentation to NOWRDC (National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium) webinar/panel discussion on International OSW Research Agendas |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Launch of Supergen ORE Hub research landscape - Offshore Wind magazine article |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Article produced on the launch of the interactive research landscape developed by the Supergen ORE Hub. Picked up by Offshore Wind magazine and published online, resulting in greater engagement with the Hub social media channels(i.e. Twitter) and with the Hub network |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Launch of Supergen ORE Hub research landscape - Seawanderer article |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Article produced on the launch of the interactive research landscape developed by the Supergen ORE Hub. Picked up by Seawanderer magazine and published online, resulting in greater engagement with the Hub social media channels(i.e. Twitter) and with the Hub network |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Launch of Supergen ORE Hub research landscape - UKERC article |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Article produced on the launch of the interactive research landscape developed by the Supergen ORE Hub. Picked up by UKERC and published online, resulting in greater engagement with the Hub social media channels(i.e. Twitter) and with the Hub network |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Marine Energy Wales Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation made to MEW regarding an update on Supergen ORE Hub progress and launch of Research Landscape tool and flexible funding |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Marine Futures with Petroc College |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Exhibition and demonstration stand at Petroc college to engage with general public and students |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/marine-futures-with-petroc-college |
| Description | Media article - "And finally Researchers trial drones to assess potential renewable energy sites" Scottish Construction News |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Article published in Scottish Construction Now magazine on Supergen ORE Hub Flexible Funding award importance (Using Drones to assess tidal energy sites) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Media article - "Drones to help choose spots for tidal turbines" The Construction Index |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Article published in The Construction Index magazine on Supergen ORE Hub Flexible Funding award importance (Using Drones to assess tidal energy sites) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Media article - "Report sets out roadmap to enhance equality, diversity and inclusion within offshore renewable energy sector" - FE News |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Article published in FE News regarding launch of Supergen ORE Hub roadmap to enhance equality, diversity and inclusion within offshore renewable energy sector |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Media article - "Report sets out roadmap to enhance equality, diversity and inclusion within offshore renewable energy sector" - Mirage News |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Article published in Mirage News regarding launch of Supergen ORE Hub roadmap to enhance equality, diversity and inclusion within offshore renewable energy sector |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Media article - "UHI drone technology project could have international impact" Inverness Courier |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article published in the inverness Courier magazine on Supergen ORE Hub Flexible Funding award importance (Using Drones to assess tidal energy sites) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Media article - "Work is needed to increase diversity in the renewables industry" - Environment Journal |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Article published in Environment Journal regarding launch of Supergen ORE Hub roadmap to enhance equality, diversity and inclusion within offshore renewable energy sector |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Media article - Supergen ORE Hub director joins Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship - Dredgewire |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Media article published regarding Hub Director Prof. Deborah Greaves receiving RAEng Fellowship |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Media article - Supergen ORE Hub director joins Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship - Offshore Energy Biz |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Media article published regarding Hub Director Prof. Deborah Greaves receiving RAEng Fellowship |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Media article - Supergen ORE Hub launches ECR research fund call - Offshore Energy Biz |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Media article published regarding Supergen ORE Hub launches ECR research fund call - Offshore Energy Biz |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Media article - Supergen Research Landscape - ORJIP Ocean Energy Quarterly Bulletin Spring 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Article in newsletter announcing the launch of the Supergen ORE Hub research landscape |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Media article - University given £1m to create national wind turbine test centre - Business Live |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Article published by Business Live regarding £1m award to create national wind turbine test centre at University of Plymouth |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting - Industry stakeholder - Sonardyne |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presented on Supergen ORE Hub to local ORE based business Sonardyne, including highlighting areas to engage with Supergen for future research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting - University of Strathclyde to discuss Supergen |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Presented on Supergen ORE Hub to University of Strathclyde delegation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | New Scientist Live |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Exhibition stand and presentation made at workshop sessions regarding the future of ORE |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://live.newscientist.com/ |
| Description | OES Webinar - An academic perspective of complex fluid mechanics applied to marine renewable energy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Provided presentation to the OES Webinar - An academic perspective of complex fluid mechanics applied to marine renewable energy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Offshore Energy Biz magazine article - Supergen ORE Hub Invites ECR Research Fund Call for Proposals |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Article published regarding Supergen ORE Hub ECR Research Fund call |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | PRIMaRE Conference 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The PRIMaRE conference was run online on 7-8 July 2020 with an international audience of over 200. selected papers are to be published in a special issue of the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | PRIMaRE Conference Cardiff 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Over 80 delegates attended the 6th PRIMaRE Conference held at Cardiff University, Cardiff on the 3rd and 4th July 2019. Based on peer-reviewed abstracts, 25 presentations and 20 posters were presented by participants from 13 institutions over 5 plenary sessions. Furthermore, there were seven presentations from invited speakers (listed below) and a panel debate featuring a range of leading figures from the marine renewables sector. The conference also attracted international participation from the University of Western Australia, and Uppsala University (Sweden). The event provided an excellent forum to foster collaboration between industry and academia, which is essential to ensure that the marine energy sector can achieve its full commercial potential, maximising job creation and export opportunities, whilst allowing the UK to remain a global leader in the associated engineering and policy expertise. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.primare.org/events-news/primare-conference/6th-primare-conference/ |
| Description | PRIMaRE Summer School 2019 Bristol and Bath |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | 2nd PRIMaRE Summer School 2nd PRIMaRE Summer School The 2nd PRIMaRE Summer School, entitled "Designing Marine Renewable Energy Devices" took place at the University of Bristol and the University of Bath from the 9th-13th September 2019. The event provided a unique opportunity for around 40 participants, including PhD students, early career researchers and industrialists to learn from experts in the sector on designing marine renewable energy devices. A range of group activities were also organised to encourage participants to share their research interests and identify potential partnerships. These included a Funding Pitch Competition, judged by Simon Cheeseman, who manages the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult's marine renewables strategy. It is hoped that participants will now use PRIMaRE's range of funding schemes to build on the contacts made at the summer school and develop future research collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.primare.org/events-news/primare-summer-school/primare-summer-school-2019/ |
| Description | Panelist in TV programme on offshore wind TRT World |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | one of three panelists discussing the challenges and opportunities in offshore wind and the importance of research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJNs5iWjiB0 |
| Description | Parliamentary Launch Event 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Official Supergen programme launch event, delivered in conjunction with other Supergen programmes. Engaged with policymakers, MPs and House of Lords peers to raise awareness of Supergen programme and research expertise within the Hubs. Event resulted in subsequent inquiries from MPs as to the work of the Supergen ORE Hub |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Participation in 'Pint of Science' workshop - Going Offshore: The Future of UK Energy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at workshop based on discussing how to keep up with the demand for energy to power our everyday lives whilst also reducing our impact on the climate? This burning question does not have a straightforward answer. Professor Jim Gilbert and the Energy and Environmental Institute @ Furleys & Co delivered a presentation on offshore wind energy and its actual potential to power the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://pintofscience.co.uk/event/planet-earth |
| Description | Participation in EDI workshop with Supergen Energy Networks |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Attended an EDI workshop being run by the Supergen Energy Networks programme, looking at EDI methodologies to apply to Supergen ORE Hub. following the workshop a EDI charter was developed for use by the Supergen ORE Hub, that all advisory board members have been requested to indicate their support for |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation to Energi Coast offshore wind cluster innovation group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Shared experience of prompting innovation in the offshore wind sector and presenting outcomes from various research projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.energicoast.co.uk/ |
| Description | Presentation to Yorkshire and Humber Institiute of Technology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presented challenges and opportunities for innovation in offshore wind |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation to industry forum on effectiveness of EDI interventions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on EDI tool to Catch EDIB network |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presentation to the Worshipful Company of Water Conservators - "Managing Our Oceans - The Climate Change Challenge" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation outlining the key areas of research in developing offshore renewable energy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Produced abstract for RAEng Ingenia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Produced an abstract on the Supergen ORE Hub and the potential for offshore renewable technologies to tackle climate change for RAEng Ingenia. Resulted in further requests for information about the core research and aims of the Supergen ORE Hub |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Produced article on Supergen ORE hub for Energy World magazine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Produced an article for Energy world magazine, highlighting the core research and aims of the Supergen ORE Hub. Resulted in increase in requests for more information from industry stakeholders |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | RENEW conference, Portugal |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Attendance and paper presentation and networking at RENEW conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Renewable Power Generation (RPG 2022) - Meeting net zero carbon |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | IET Renewable Power Generation (RPG) brings together the topics of renewable energy technology, power generation and systems integration, with techno-economic issues. All renewable energy generation technologies are within the scope of the conference. RPG provides an opportunity to connect with international academics, researchers, engineers and consultants working in renewable energy, to publish results, share knowledge and forge new partnerships. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/renewable-power-generation-rpg-2022-meeting-net-zero-carbon |
| Description | Renewable UK - Futures Forum - Net Zero conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Virtual exhibition and conference engaging with industry, policy makers and students on Supergen ORE Hub |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Report sets out roadmap to enhance equality, diversity and inclusion within offshore renewable energy sector (Mirage News article) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article published in Mirage News on launch of "Report sets out roadmap to enhance equality, diversity and inclusion within offshore renewable energy sector" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Roadmap to enhance equality, diversity and inclusion within offshore renewable energy sector (FE News article) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Article published on launch of "Roadmap to enhance equality, diversity and inclusion within offshore renewable energy sector" report (FE News) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Roadmap to enhance equality, diversity and inclusion within offshore renewable energy sector (Radio Humberside interview) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview with Radio Humberside on launch of "Roadmap to enhance equality, diversity and inclusion within offshore renewable energy sector" report |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Royal Academy of Engineering Korea visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Visit to Korea for UK-Korea wind energy summit. including meetings with around 10 industry bodies to discuss policy and collaboration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Supergen Cross Hub Net Zero Conference - The role of energy research in the pathway to net zero |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ahead of COP26, the Supergen Hubs will be convening online at the Supergen Net Zero Conference during 1-3 September, exploring the role of energy research in the pathway to net zero. Over the course of the three days we will hear from the Supergen Hubs who will be showcasing their research, as well as holding cross-cutting panel discussions exploring topics such as equality, diversity and inclusion in energy research, international perspectives on Supergen work, our early career researcher activities, and outlining the policy implications of Supergen research for tackling climate change |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/supergen-net-zero-conference |
| Description | Supergen Cross Hub workshop: Co-Design of Offshore Renewables |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Workshop scope The scope of this workshop covers energy vectors for offshore renewables. Energy vectors allow to make energy available to be used at a distance/different time from the source of generation. Typical energy vectors relevant for offshore energy are electricity, hydrogen, compressed gas. The workshop will consider the development and co-design of future offshore energy vector systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Supergen Cross Hub workshop: Offshore Energy Transmission and Storage |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Workshop scope The scope of this particular workshop covers existing offshore infrastructure and technology and examines how both elements can be adapted and transformed to yield and develop synergies within the areas of energy transmission and storage. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Supergen ECR cross-hub webinar series - 2nd Research Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Supergen cross hub ECR webinar (Supergen ORE Hub, Supergen Energy Networks Hub, Supergen Energy Storage Network +) for ECRs to share updates on different aspects of their research in a cross-disciplinary workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaKSgHG7zhI |
| Description | Supergen Early Career Researcher Proposal Writing Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The Supergen Hubs (Offshore Renewable Energy Hub, Bioenergy Hub, SuperSolar Hub, Energy Networks Hub, Energy Storage Network+, and the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Research Hub) are hosting a facilitated interactive workshop on proposal writing, which will introduce Early Career Researchers (ECRs) to the research grant funding process and provide knowledge and skills to write competitive research grant applications consistently. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/supergen-early-career-researcher-proposal-writing-workshop |
| Description | Supergen Maritime Decarbonisation workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | On 25 January the Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy Hub, Supergen Energy Storage Network+ and The Supergen Bioenergy Hub attended a workshop (hosted by the The Supergen Bioenergy Hub), that brought together their academic networks, policymakers and industry around the challenges and opportunities presented by maritime decarbonisation. The Supergen Hubs were joined by the UK Department for Transport who outlined the critical role that the decarbonisation of shipping has to play in the UK's ability to meet net zero targets, and highlighted details of the upcoming Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition (CMDC), which aims to promote the deployment of clean maritime technologies and zero emission vessels. Deborah Greaves (Director, Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy Hub), Patricia Thornley (Director, Supergen Bioenergy Hub), Yulong Ding (Director, Supergen Energy Storage Network+) and Antzela Fivga (Project Manager, Supergen Energy Storage Network+) then presented on behalf of their respective Hubs, outlining how their objectives align with the opportunities they see to decarbonise the maritime sector. Following the Hub presentations, Ben Murray, Director of Maritime UK, provided a crucial overview of the sector and the opportunities for collaboration as the CMDC progresses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.supergen-bioenergy.net/news/supergen-programme-explores-the-decarbonisation-of-energy-in... |
| Description | Supergen ORE Director Joins RAE Fellowship (Dredgewire article) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Article published on Supergen ORE Hub director joins Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Supergen ORE Hub - Annual Assembly |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Annual assembly, launching the Supergen ORE Hub, with a number of academic and industry speakers - ECR activities - Networking and announcements made regarding future Supergen ORE Hub work, flexible funding calls and project research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/supergen-ore-hub-annual-assembly-registration-53131407470?aff=Superge... |
| Description | Supergen ORE Hub - Autumn Assembly |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Hub organise an Annual Assembly to give an opportunity to those working in the offshore wind, wave and tidal energy sectors the chance to explore and debate cutting-edge research, find out about the latest opportunities and challenges in offshore renewable energy technologies, and network with the offshore renewable community, including academics, industry professionals and policymakers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/supergen-ore-hub-autumn-assembly |
| Description | Supergen ORE Hub - Carbon Trust Research and Innovation Priorities Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The aim of the workshop is to exchange information between the Supergen Hub and the Carbon Trust's offshore wind R&D programmes on medium- and long-term research priorities, areas of alignment and potential gaps, to provide a networking forum and explore opportunities for future collaboration. Carbon Trust aims to direct the research agenda in offshore wind by informing and sharing R&D needs and current industry challenges with the wider R&D community. As such, we are hosting this workshop with Supergen, to bring industry and academia closer together. An ambition of the Supergen ORE Hub is to be a trusted partner for industry and its research programme is targeted to address challenges that will accelerate the development of offshore renewable energy. The ORE Hub's research landscape and priorities are agreed and periodically updated in collaboration with industry, academia and other stakeholders. This workshop will help ensure that the research is well connected with industry priorities and impactful. It will also provide an opportunity to connect together academics research with the work ongoing and planned within the Carbon Trust within the Offshore Wind Accelerator, ORJIP and Floating Offshore Wind programmes, for mutual benefit. This workshop will bring together the Hub Co-Directors and Carbon Trust Industry partners to discuss the research and innovation priorities of both parties, carry out a mapping exercise to identify complementary activities and focus discussion around common research priorities to maximise impact. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Supergen ORE Hub Annual Assembly |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The Supergen ORE Hub Third Annual Assembly took place from 18 - 22 January 2021, and welcomed over 475 delegates to an online conference centre. he conference gave those working in the offshore wind, wave and tidal energy sectors the chance to explore and debate cutting edge research, find out about the latest opportunities and challenges in offshore renewable energy technologies, and network with the offshore renewable community, including academics, industry professionals and policymakers. For this conference, sessions were grouped into the following themes: Offshore Renewable Energy Policy and the path to net zero GHG emissions UK and US initiatives and opportunities for collaboration UK and EU collaboration post Brexit UK and other international initiatives and opportunities for collaboration Early Career Researcher Forum Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Current research tackling the key research challenges in Offshore Renewable Energy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/news-and-events/supergen-ore-hub-third-annual-assembly |
| Description | Supergen ORE Hub Annual Assembly - Jan 22 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Hub Annual Assembly gives those working in the offshore wind, wave and tidal energy sectors the chance to explore and debate cutting-edge research, find out about the latest opportunities and challenges in offshore renewable energy technologies, and network with the offshore renewable community, including academics, industry professionals and policymakers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/supergen-fourth-assembly |
| Description | Supergen ORE Hub Annual Assembly, Glasgow |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The 3 day annual assembly was run at the University of Strathclyde (Supergen ORE Hub partner) comprising of Day 1 - Early Career Researcher Forum, 45 delegates with workshop training, invited speakers and a poster competition. Also a research alignment group meeting and workshop on research priorities. Day 2 - Main Assembly Day with 250 delegates and a series of presentations on Supergen ORE Hub core research, Flexible Fund research and wider research initiatives. Day 3 - A Co-directors and Advisory Board meeting. The Assembly generated a number of new connections to the Supergen ORE Hub network and increased attendance and engagement at subsequent Supergen ORE Hub events |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/?id=89 |
| Description | Supergen ORE Hub Autumn Early Career Researchers Forum 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | As part of our 2022 Autumn Assembly, the Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Hub Autumn Early Career Researchers Forum took place on Wednesday 28 September 2022, and welcomed over 60 delegates to St Catherine's College at the University of Oxford. The Supergen ORE Hub ECR Community aims to connect ECRs with more senior researchers, in the UK and internationally, to create a diverse and supportive community that nurtures the next generation of ORE research leaders. The ECR Forum is a way for ECRs to come together and share their research and network with colleagues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/supergen-ore-hub-ecr-autumn-forum |
| Description | Supergen ORE Hub Director joins Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship (Offshore Energy Biz article) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Article published on Supergen ORE Hub Director joins Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship (Offshore Energy Biz) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Supergen ORE Hub Early Career Researcher Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Early Career Researcher Forum with presentations from PDRAs on current research being undertaken, followed by Q&A and discussion. Also invited guest industry speaker on how ECRs can engage with industry partners |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/supergen-ore-hub-fourth-early-career-researchers-forum |
| Description | Supergen ORE Hub Early Career Researcher Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | ECR Forum - 19 to 21 January 2021, Virtual The third ECR Forum was held alongside our Annual Assembly in January 2021. The Forum took place over three days, and included focussed sessions around: Experiences of ECRs in winning awards or fellowships Floating Offshore Wind - Future Research Challenges workshop Career development and progression 22 members of our Early Carer Researcher community submitted posters, abstracts and videos which were displayed in the virtual poster hall in the main assembly virtual conference centre. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/ecr-community/ecr-forum |
| Description | Supergen ORE Hub/ORJIP - "De-risking of tidal arrays - are we nearly there yet?" workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Supergen ORE Hub and ORJIP Ocean Energy invites you to a workshop on Friday 29 January 13:30 - 18:00 GMT to be hosted online alongside the Marine Energy Wales Conference titled "De-risking consenting of tidal arrays - are we nearly there yet?" With key speakers from the Marine Energy Council, Natural Resources Wales, ORJIP Ocean Energy, the Welsh Consenting Strategic Advisory Group, OES Environmental and key tidal energy developers in Wales, this workshop will focus on the key environmental consenting risks that remain within the tidal energy industry and how we can work together to address these risks and streamline the consenting process in Wales. The tidal energy industry is at a highly significant moment in its development after more than 15 years of research and innovation funded by the UK government and industry, with direct involvement of regulators and their advisors, to facilitate device development and testing as well as evidence and tools to facilitate consenting. Nevertheless, the barriers in the UK to moving forward from single devices to viable commercial arrays are forcing industry to seek development sites overseas elsewhere in Europe, Canada and South East Asia and so there is significant pressure to collaborate over resolving the remaining issues to progressing projects in the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/de-risking-consenting-of-tidal-arrays-are-we-nearly-there-yet |
| Description | Supergen cross hub webinar series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Hosting our first in a new series of cross-hub webinars to allow ECRs from all the Supergen Hubs to connect and share their exciting projects! This will be a great chance to see what research is happening across the whole Supergen network and potentially find some new opportunities for cross-hub collaboration. The following speakers lined up to talk about their projects. Each giving a rapid presentation on their research area. - Katie Shanks (University of Exeter, Energy Networks) Energy Independent Farms: Balancing Wind, Solar and Biomass Energy - Agota Mockute (University of Hull, Offshore Renewable Energy) When waves tickle offshore wind turbines - challenges in predicting nonlinear wave-induced resonance on monopile-supported OWTs - Jorge Ordovas (Aston University, Bioenergy) Construction of a model for the design of a rotary kiln for slow pyrolysis of biomass - GreenCarbon project - Alberto Bolzoni (The University of Manchester, Energy Storage) Grid-scale battery storage: a path toward profitability - Tudur David (Bangor University, Supersolar) Forecasting OPV performance and degradation using Machine Learning - Iñaki Erazo Damian (The University of Manchester, Energy Networks) Control of a hybrid wind-diesel microgrid - Anna Garcia-Teruel (University of Edinburgh, Offshore Renewable Energy) Design optimisation of wave energy converters - Nathan Skillen (Queens University Belfast, Bioenergy) Photocatalysis in Bioenergy; finding its feet or a step too far?! - Hungyen Lin (University of Lancaster, Energy Storage) Sensing with terahertz waves - Kezia Sasitharan (University of Sheffield, Supersolar) Metal-organic nanosheets: A new dimension in solar cell research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | The Big interview: Professor Deborah Greaves OBE |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Interview with Prof. Deborah Greaves for Alumni/Friends of the University magazine |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/alumni-friends/invenite/invenite-issue-4/the-big-interview-professor-debo... |
| Description | Times Radio Interview with Mariella Frostrop - Subject of 'NetZero' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview with Times Radio discussing routes to Net Zero Carbon through offshore renewable energy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Tortoise ThinkIn - Southampton - Can we invent our way to net zero, or is it too late? Live streamed climate change debate |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A ThinkIn is not another panel discussion. It is a forum for civilised disagreement. Modelled onl a 'leader conference' in the UK (or an editorial board in the US), it is a place where everyone has a seat at the table. It's where we get to hear what you think, drawn from your experience, energy and expertise. It's where, together, we sift through what we know to come to a clear, concise point of view. It is the heart of what we do at Tortoise. This ThinkIn focussed on a debate on good advice for a planet facing accelerating climate change, but what does it mean in practice? Can we still harness technology to drive down emissions fast enough to control global warming, or have we passed a point of no return? Engaged via podcast live-streamed for delegates who registered to login. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tortoise-thinkin-southampton-can-we-invent-our-way-to-net-zero-or-is-... |
| Description | UK China - ORE event, Qingdao, China 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Provided a talk on Supergen ORE Hub to academic audience in Qingdao, China, updating on Supergen ORE Hub core research. Resulted in better links with Chinese academic contacts |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | UK-India offshore wind summit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Part of Uk delegation to UK-India offshore wind summit, including summit panel and meetings with various Indian companies and Government organisations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | UKCMER Assembly |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Attended and presented at UKCMER conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | UKRI Research and Innovation Infrastructure Roadmap: Cross-cutting workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Attended UKRI workshop to input into UKRI planning process for future research landscape |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | UKRI Supergen hubs: role and expectations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Update to UKRI audience as to progress of Supergen Hubs and role of ORE |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | UN International Women's Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A Social media campaign highlighting the careers of women in ORE engineering |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/international-womens-day-2021 |
| Description | University given £1m to create national wind turbine test centre (Business Live South West article) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Article published in Business Live South West on "University given £1m to create national wind turbine test centre" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | University of Bristol (panel discussion) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to University of Bristol final year undergraduate students on ORE |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | University of Bristol student conference 'Innovation in Offshore Wind' panel debate 17th November 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Speaker presentation on new innovation in the offshore wind sector |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | University of Plymouth Research Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Workshop: To bring together University of Plymouth (UoP) offshore renewable energy (ORE) engineering academics with different disciplines across the University (such as computing, mathematics, environmental) to help foster future funding/project collaborations Workshop: To bring together UoP academics with the ORE industrial sector (e.g. ORE Catapult, Oceans Gate, LEPs, Wave Hub, The Crown Estate etc.) Workshop: To highlight UoP collaborations with industry Public talk: To promote public awareness and understanding of ORE, and build awareness of COP26. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/offshore-renewable-energy-themed-events-university-of-plymouth-resea... |
| Description | Voyage of Discovery - a FUTURES2021 event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Part of the FUTURES2021 festival, the Supergen ORE Hub took part in the Voyage of Discovery at The Market Hall - Plymouth's new world-class space for digital innovation and learning. Over 500 members of the public attended the event learning more about the world of offshore wind, wave and tidal energy, and entering a competition for the best colouring in of an offshore renewable energy device. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/voyage-of-discovery-a-futures2021-event |
| Description | Wave Energy Scotland 2020 Virtual Student Conference - 'What do you think the UK Parliament and Government's priorities should be while preparing for and delivering COP26? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Speaker presentation on prioritisation required by UK Parliament of topics in preparation for COP26 conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Wave Energy sector road mapping workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A 2 day workshop was run by the Supergen ORE Hub to consult stakeholders in the wave energy sector on developing a roadmap document for the future development of the wave energy sector in the UK. The workshop saw delegates discussing the current status of the wave energy sector, including the routes that have led to where it currently stands, and subsequently identifying any learning that can be drawn from other offshore renewable energy sectors that can be applied to further the development of the wave energy sector. Current technology and financial pathways within the sector and barriers to their development were also discussed. Feedback and outputs from the workshop will be synthesised by the Supergen ORE Hub into a sector roadmap for wave energy, which will be made available to industry, academic and policy stakeholders through the Supergen ORE Hub and EPSRC. The purpose of the roadmap will be to bring the wave energy sector to the attention of policymakers and set out suggested routes for its development in light of the UK's net-zero carbon targets. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/?id=94 |
| Description | Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum - Next steps for developing UK offshore wind generation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Professor Deborah Greaves OBE, (Supergen ORE Hub Director, University of Plymouth) is speaking at the Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum - Next steps for developing UK offshore wind generation conference. This conference will discuss the next steps for offshore wind energy in the UK, as well as infrastructure challenges and supply chain constraints, whilst looking at its wider role in contributing towards greater UK energy security and decarbonised electricity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/westminster-energy-environment-transport-forum-next-steps-for-develo... |
| Description | Westminster Launch Wave and Tidal Showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Attended launch of Wave and Tidal Showcase - presenting and networking with delegates regarding the Supergen ORE Hub |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Wind Energy Science Conference (WESC) 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Exhibition stand at the Wind Energy Science Conference with over 1000 international delegates |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/wind-energy-science-conference-2023 |
| Description | Women's Engineering Society Student Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to Female engineering and allied undergraduates at the Women's Engineering Society Student conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.wes.org.uk/events/wes-virtual-student-conference-0 |
| Description | Workshop for Initiation of the International Joint Research Centre on Offshore Renewable Energy(IJRC-ORE), 26th October, 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Speaker at the Workshop for Initiation of the International Joint Research Centre on Offshore Renewable Energy(IJRC-ORE), 26th October, 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |