Supergen ORE Impact Hub 2023
Lead Research Organisation:
Plymouth University
Department Name: Sch of Eng, Comp and Math (SECaM)
Abstract
The UK is leading the development and installation of offshore renewable energy technologies. With over 13GW of installed offshore wind capacity and another 3GW under construction, two operational and one awarded floating offshore demonstration projects as well as Contracts for Difference awards for four tidal energy projects, offshore renewable energy will provide the backbone of the Net Zero energy system, giving energy security, green growth and jobs in the UK.
The revised UK targets that underpin the Energy Security Strategy seek to grow offshore wind capacity to 50 GW, with up to 5 GW floating offshore wind by 2030. Further acceleration is envisaged beyond 2030 with targets of around 150 GW anticipated for 2050. To achieve these levels of deployment, ORE developments need to move beyond current sites to more challenging locations in deeper water, further from shore, while the increasing pace of deployment introduces major challenges in consenting, manufacture and installation. These are ambitious targets that will require strategic innovation and research to achieve the necessary technology acceleration while ensuring environmental sustainability and societal acceptance.
The role of the Supergen ORE Hub 2023 builds on the academic and scientific networks, traction with industry and policymakers and the reputation for research leadership established in the Supergen ORE Hub 2018. The new hub will utilise existing and planned research outcomes to accelerate the technology development, collaboration and industry uptake for commercial ORE developments.
The Supergen ORE Hub strategy will focus on delivering impact and knowledge transfer, underpinned by excellent research, for the benefit of the wider sector, providing research and development for the economic and social benefit of the UK. Four mechanisms for leverage are envisaged to accelerate the ORE expansion: Streamlining ORE projects, by accelerating planning, consenting and build out timescales; upscaling the ORE workforce, increasing the scale and efficiency of ORE devices and system; enhanced competitiveness, maximising ORE local content and ORE economic viability in the energy portfolio; whilst ensuring sustainability, yielding positive environmental and social benefits from ORE.
The research programme is built around five strategic workstreams, i) ORE expansion - policy and scenarios , ii) Data for ORE design and decision-making, iii) ORE modelling, iv) ORE design methods and v) Future ORE systems and concepts, which will be delivered through a combination of core research to tackle sector wide challenges in a holistic and synergistic manner, strategic projects to address emerging sector challenges and flexible funding to deliver targeted projects addressing focussed opportunities. Supergen Representative Systems will be established as a vehicle for academic and industry community engagement to provide comparative reference cases for assessing applicability of modelling tools and approaches, emerging technology and data processing techniques.
The Supergen ORE Hub outputs, research findings and sector progress will be communicated through directed networking, engagement and dissemination activities for the range of academic, industry and policy and governmental stakeholders, as well as the wider public.
Industry leverage will be achieved through new co-funding mechanisms, including industry-funded flexible funding calls, direct investment into research activities and the industry-funded secondment of researchers, with >53% industry plus >23% HEI leverage on the EPSRC investment at proposal stage.
The Hub will continue and expand its role in developing and sustaining the pipeline of talent flowing into research and industry by integrating its ECR programme with Early Career Industrialists and by enhancing its programme of EDI activities to help deliver greater diversity within the sector and to promote ORE as a rewarding and accessible career for all.
The revised UK targets that underpin the Energy Security Strategy seek to grow offshore wind capacity to 50 GW, with up to 5 GW floating offshore wind by 2030. Further acceleration is envisaged beyond 2030 with targets of around 150 GW anticipated for 2050. To achieve these levels of deployment, ORE developments need to move beyond current sites to more challenging locations in deeper water, further from shore, while the increasing pace of deployment introduces major challenges in consenting, manufacture and installation. These are ambitious targets that will require strategic innovation and research to achieve the necessary technology acceleration while ensuring environmental sustainability and societal acceptance.
The role of the Supergen ORE Hub 2023 builds on the academic and scientific networks, traction with industry and policymakers and the reputation for research leadership established in the Supergen ORE Hub 2018. The new hub will utilise existing and planned research outcomes to accelerate the technology development, collaboration and industry uptake for commercial ORE developments.
The Supergen ORE Hub strategy will focus on delivering impact and knowledge transfer, underpinned by excellent research, for the benefit of the wider sector, providing research and development for the economic and social benefit of the UK. Four mechanisms for leverage are envisaged to accelerate the ORE expansion: Streamlining ORE projects, by accelerating planning, consenting and build out timescales; upscaling the ORE workforce, increasing the scale and efficiency of ORE devices and system; enhanced competitiveness, maximising ORE local content and ORE economic viability in the energy portfolio; whilst ensuring sustainability, yielding positive environmental and social benefits from ORE.
The research programme is built around five strategic workstreams, i) ORE expansion - policy and scenarios , ii) Data for ORE design and decision-making, iii) ORE modelling, iv) ORE design methods and v) Future ORE systems and concepts, which will be delivered through a combination of core research to tackle sector wide challenges in a holistic and synergistic manner, strategic projects to address emerging sector challenges and flexible funding to deliver targeted projects addressing focussed opportunities. Supergen Representative Systems will be established as a vehicle for academic and industry community engagement to provide comparative reference cases for assessing applicability of modelling tools and approaches, emerging technology and data processing techniques.
The Supergen ORE Hub outputs, research findings and sector progress will be communicated through directed networking, engagement and dissemination activities for the range of academic, industry and policy and governmental stakeholders, as well as the wider public.
Industry leverage will be achieved through new co-funding mechanisms, including industry-funded flexible funding calls, direct investment into research activities and the industry-funded secondment of researchers, with >53% industry plus >23% HEI leverage on the EPSRC investment at proposal stage.
The Hub will continue and expand its role in developing and sustaining the pipeline of talent flowing into research and industry by integrating its ECR programme with Early Career Industrialists and by enhancing its programme of EDI activities to help deliver greater diversity within the sector and to promote ORE as a rewarding and accessible career for all.
Organisations
- Plymouth University (Lead Research Organisation)
- BP (British Petroleum) (Collaboration)
- University of Surrey (Collaboration)
- Mocean Energy (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE (Collaboration)
- CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT, FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE SCIENCE (Collaboration)
- National Composites Centre (NCC) (Collaboration)
- University College Cork (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- PA Consulting (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON (Collaboration)
- U.S. Department of Energy (Collaboration)
- QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Collaboration)
- Ocean University of China (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Aviva (Collaboration)
- Wave Energy Scotland (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Arup Group (Collaboration)
- CROWN ESTATE (Collaboration)
- Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Marine Scotland Science (MSS) (Collaboration)
- Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Carbon Trust (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN (Collaboration)
- University of Maine (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- EDF Energy (United Kingdom) (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- University of Manchester (Collaboration)
- DNV GL (Collaboration)
- University of Western Australia (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Marine Energy Wales (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Joint Nature Conservation Committee (Collaboration)
- University of Plymouth (Collaboration)
- European Marine Energy Centre, Orkney (Collaboration)
- Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) (Collaboration)
- RenewableUK (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Energy Systems Catapult Ltd (Collaboration)
- Marine Power Systems Ltd (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Energy Systems Catapult (Project Partner)
- Offshore Wind Consultants Limited (UK) (Project Partner)
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Project Partner)
- Marine Management Organisation (Project Partner)
- UK Marine Energy Council (Project Partner)
- GE Grid Solutions (UK) Ltd (Project Partner)
- Pacific Marine Energy Centre (Project Partner)
- Arup Group (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Aviva Plc (Project Partner)
- Fred. Olsen Seawind Ltd. (Project Partner)
- Marine Scotland (Project Partner)
- Celtic Sea Power (Project Partner)
- PA Consulting Group (Project Partner)
- University of Bristol (Project Partner)
- Catapult Offshore Renewable Energy (Project Partner)
- France Energies Marine (Project Partner)
- European Marine Energy Centre (Project Partner)
- Gazelle Wind Power (Project Partner)
- Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Project Partner)
- BP (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Crown Estate (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- National Composites Centre (Project Partner)
- Ocean Winds UK Ltd (Project Partner)
- ThakeConsult (Project Partner)
- Renewables Consulting Group (Project Partner)
- Aura Innovation (Project Partner)
- Vercity (Project Partner)
- DNV Services UK Limited (Project Partner)
- Orsted (Project Partner)
- Eleven Integration (Project Partner)
- Pacific Ocean Energy Trust (Project Partner)
- Joint Nature Conservation Committee (Project Partner)
Publications
Barron J
(2024)
Seismic performance of shared suction caisson anchors installed in liquefiable sand for floating offshore wind turbines
in Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
Brown S
(2023)
On the selection of design waves for predicting extreme motions of a floating offshore wind turbine
in Ocean Engineering
Declerck M
(2023)
Cumulative effects of offshore renewables: From pragmatic policies to holistic marine spatial planning tools
in Environmental Impact Assessment Review
Ding H
(2024)
Numerical simulation of wave interactions with floating offshore renewable energy structures: A comparative study between a Particle-based PIC model and OpenFOAM
in Journal of Fluids and Structures
| Description | Celtic Sea All Party Parliamentary Group - Providing expert evidence |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.parallelparliament.co.uk/APPG/celtic-sea |
| Description | DESNZ - Contracts for Difference for Low Carbon Electricity Generation Consultation on Introducing a CfD Sustainable Industry Reward Scheme |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Delivering Net Zero: the Role of Offshore Renewable Energy. A COP28 Briefing Note |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/uploads/resources/Supergen-ORE-Hub-Delivering-Net-Zero-the-role-of-Offshore... |
| Description | Policy roundtable session - Department of Energy Security and Net Zero |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Ongoing collaboration with UK policymakers to develop the UK ORE policy landscape |
| Description | Policymakers toolkit report - 2023 UK Ocean Energy Review |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| URL | http://www.supergen-ore.net/uploads/resources/Policy-and-Innovation-Group-UK-Ocean-Energy-Review-202... |
| Description | Policymakers toolkit report - Research and Innovation for Wave and Tidal Stream in the UK and EU - A 2023 Summary |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/uploads/Research_and_innovation_for_wave_and_tidal_stream_-_a_2023_review.p... |
| Description | Policymakers toolkit report - UK power system benefits through deployment of marine energy technologies |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/uploads/resources/Supergen-March-2023-v-online_2023-06-19-081116_unht.pdf |
| Description | An origami inspired wave energy converter through direct energy generation |
| Amount | £99,616 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2024 |
| End | 02/2025 |
| Description | Mocean Plymouth MLER Testing Project |
| Amount | £38,891 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Mocean Energy |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2024 |
| End | 07/2024 |
| 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 | Origami-adapted wave energy converter through direct energy generation |
| Amount | £5,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2023 |
| End | 08/2024 |
| 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 | R&D Solutions Fund by Enterprise Solutions collaboration between University of Plymouth and Environmental Resources Management (ERM) Limited |
| Amount | £31,204 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Plymouth |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2023 |
| End | 04/2025 |
| Description | Supergen ORE Hub - Early Career Researcher Fund for model of Demonstrator of a wind turbine platform carrying equipment for hydrogen |
| Amount | £5,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2023 |
| End | 09/2024 |
| Description | Transient Stability Assessment of GB Power System based on Real-Time Phasor-EMT Simulations |
| Amount | £354,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | National Grid UK |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2023 |
| End | 06/2028 |
| Description | UKRI IAA - Investigate the influence of operating conditions on tidal turbines at partner site |
| Amount | £9,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2024 |
| End | 04/2024 |
| 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 |
| Description | Activity support partner - Aviva Plc |
| Organisation | Aviva |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Collaborator Contribution | Co-fund 4 year industry PhD student, attending events and supporting activities |
| Impact | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Activity support partner - Marine Alliance for Sci & Tech (MASTS) |
| Organisation | Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Collaborator Contribution | Attending events and supporting activities |
| Impact | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes and planning |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Activity support partner - Marine Energy Wales |
| Organisation | Marine Energy Wales |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Collaborator Contribution | Attending events and supporting activities |
| Impact | Attending events and supporting activities |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Activity support partner - Marine Management Organisation (MMO) |
| Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
| Department | Marine Management Organisation (MMO) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Collaborator Contribution | Attending events and supporting activities |
| Impact | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Activity support partner - Ocean University of China |
| Organisation | Ocean University of China |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Collaborator Contribution | Supporting events, visit exchanges and review of Flexible Funds |
| Impact | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Activity support partner - PA Consulting Group |
| Organisation | PA Consulting |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provision of data, Review of Flexible Fund proposals, event attendance, and dissemination of activities |
| Impact | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Activity support partner - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| Organisation | U.S. Department of Energy |
| Department | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Collaborator Contribution | Attending events, review of Flexible Fund proposals |
| Impact | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Activity support partner - University College Cork |
| Organisation | University College Cork |
| Country | Ireland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Engagement and sharing of research outcomes |
| Collaborator Contribution | Attending events and supporting activities |
| Impact | Engagement and sharing of research outcomes |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Advisory Board member |
| Organisation | Marine Scotland Science (MSS) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Collaborating and sharing of research outcomes |
| Collaborator Contribution | Advisory Board, attending events and review of Flex Fund proposals |
| Impact | Collaborating and sharing of research outcomes, and providing advice on latest research |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Advisory Board member - Arup Group |
| Organisation | Arup Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Collaborator Contribution | Advisory Board member, attending events, review of Flexible Fund proposals |
| Impact | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Advisory Board member - BP (UK) |
| Organisation | BP (British Petroleum) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Collaborator Contribution | X4 3 month PDRA projects, Advisory Board member, attending events, review of Flexible Fund proposals |
| Impact | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Advisory Board member - DNV Services UK Limited |
| Organisation | DNV GL |
| Department | DNV GL, UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Collaborator Contribution | Host 3month PDRA project, Advisory Board member, attending events, review of Flexible Fund proposals, contribution to representative systems research |
| Impact | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Advisory Board member - EDF Energy Plc (UK) |
| Organisation | EDF Energy |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes and Advisory Board support |
| Collaborator Contribution | Advisory Board, events, review FlexFund proposals |
| Impact | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes and Advisory Board support |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Advisory Board member - Energy Systems Catapult |
| Organisation | Energy Systems Catapult Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes and Advisory Board support |
| Collaborator Contribution | Advisory Board member, attending events, review of Flexible Funding proposals |
| Impact | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes and Advisory Board support |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Advisory Board member - European Marine Energy Centre |
| Organisation | European Marine Energy Centre, Orkney |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Collaborator Contribution | Advisory Board attendance, events, review of Flex Fund proposals |
| Impact | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Advisory Board member - JNCC (Joint Nature Conservation Committee) |
| Organisation | Joint Nature Conservation Committee |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Collaborator Contribution | Advisory Board member, attending events, review of Flexible Fund proposals |
| Impact | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Advisory Board member - Marine Power Systems |
| Organisation | Marine Power Systems Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Collaborator Contribution | Advisory Board member, attending events, review of Flexible Fund proposals |
| Impact | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Advisory Board member - National Composites Centre |
| Organisation | National Composites Centre (NCC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Collaborator Contribution | X4 3 month PDRA projects and Advisory Board member, attending events, review of Flexible Fund proposals |
| Impact | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Advisory Board member - Renewable UK |
| Organisation | RenewableUK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes and Advisory Board support |
| Collaborator Contribution | Advisory Board member, attending events, review of Flexible Funding proposals |
| Impact | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes and Advisory Board support |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Advisory Board member - Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy |
| Organisation | Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy |
| Country | Spain |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Collaborator Contribution | Advisory Board member, attending activities and events |
| Impact | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Advisory Board member - The Carbon Trust |
| Organisation | Carbon Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes, and supporting Advisory Board activities |
| Collaborator Contribution | Advisory Board member, attending events, review of Flexible Funding proposals |
| Impact | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes, and supporting Advisory Board activities |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Advisory Board member - The Crown Estate |
| Organisation | Crown Estate |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Collaborator Contribution | Advisory Board member, attending events, review of Flexible Fund proposals |
| Impact | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Advisory Board member - University of Maine |
| Organisation | University of Maine |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Collaborator Contribution | Review of Flex Fund proposals, event attendance and dissemination |
| Impact | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Advisory Board member - Wave Energy Scotland |
| Organisation | Wave Energy Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Collaborator Contribution | Flexible Funding match contribution, Advisory Board, events, review of Flex Fund proposals |
| Impact | Flexible Funding match contribution, Advisory Board, events, review of Flex Fund proposals |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Advisory Board member and staff time for Impact Officer - Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult |
| Organisation | Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes, Advisory Board support and impact officer contribution to supporting collaboration |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data from Levenmouth Demo Turbine and Impact Officer contribution and Advisory Board time |
| Impact | Data from Levenmouth Demo Turbine and Impact Officer contribution and Advisory Board time |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | ECR Research Fund Award - A novel hybrid aero-hydro-servo-elastic-mooring numerical model for floating offshore wind turbines |
| Organisation | University of Aberdeen |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | ECR Research Fund Award of £4000 to deliver research project in line with competitive award process |
| Collaborator Contribution | Delivery of ECR Research Fund Award with delivery of outputs as set out in competitive process |
| Impact | ECR Research Fund Award has only just started, outcomes/outputs are expected within 12 months |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | ECR Research Fund Award - Demonstrator of a wind turbine platform carrying equipment for hydrogen developed by ERM |
| Organisation | University of Plymouth |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | ECR Research Fund Award of £4000 to deliver research project in line with competitive award process |
| Collaborator Contribution | Delivery of ECR Research Fund Award with delivery of outputs as set out in competitive process |
| Impact | ECR Research Fund Award has only just started, outcomes/outputs are expected within 12 months |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | ECR Research Fund Award - Development of a multipurpose hinged raft floating platform for wave energy extraction and offshore wind foundation |
| Organisation | University of Strathclyde |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | ECR Research Fund Award of £7100 to deliver research project in line with competitive award process |
| Collaborator Contribution | Delivery of ECR Research Fund Award with delivery of outputs as set out in competitive process |
| Impact | ECR Research Fund Award has only just started, outcomes/outputs are expected within 12 months |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | ECR Research Fund Award - Digital twin-enhanced O & M in ORE |
| Organisation | University of Strathclyde |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | ECR Research Fund Award of £4000 to deliver research project in line with competitive award process |
| Collaborator Contribution | Delivery of ECR Research Fund Award with delivery of outputs as set out in competitive process |
| Impact | ECR Research Fund Award has only just started, outcomes/outputs are expected within 12 months |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | ECR Research Fund Award - Enhancing Sustainability of Offshore Energy through Improved Lifetime Assessment of Polymer Composites |
| Organisation | University of Surrey |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | ECR Research Fund Award of £4000 to deliver research project in line with competitive award process |
| Collaborator Contribution | Delivery of ECR Research Fund Award with delivery of outputs as set out in competitive process |
| Impact | ECR Research Fund Award has only just started, outcomes/outputs are expected within 12 months |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | ECR Research Fund Award - On the evaluation of response conditioned short design episodes for the prediction of design loads of a spar type floating wind turbine in the presence of currents |
| Organisation | University of Plymouth |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | ECR Research Fund Award of £4000 to deliver research project in line with competitive award process |
| Collaborator Contribution | Delivery of ECR Research Fund Award with delivery of outputs as set out in competitive process |
| Impact | ECR Research Fund Award has only just started, outcomes/outputs are expected within 12 months |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | ECR Research Fund Award - Origami-adapted Wave Energy Converter through Direct Energy Generation |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | ECR Research Fund Award of £4000 to deliver research project in line with competitive award process |
| Collaborator Contribution | Delivery of ECR Research Fund Award with delivery of outputs as set out in competitive process |
| Impact | ECR Research Fund Award has only just started, outcomes/outputs are expected within 12 months |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | ECR Research Fund Award - Predicting the response of monopile foundations to storm loading from laboratory test data |
| Organisation | University of Southampton |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | ECR Research Fund Award of £4000 to deliver research project in line with competitive award process |
| Collaborator Contribution | Delivery of ECR Research Fund Award with delivery of outputs as set out in competitive process |
| Impact | ECR Research Fund Award has only just started, outcomes/outputs are expected within 12 months |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | ECR Research Fund Award - WaveTide: Wave Effects on a Benchmark Tidal Energy Device |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | ECR Research Fund Award of £4000 to deliver research project in line with competitive award process |
| Collaborator Contribution | Delivery of ECR Research Fund Award with delivery of outputs as set out in competitive process |
| Impact | ECR Research Fund Award has only just started, outcomes/outputs are expected within 12 months |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Flexible Funding Award - An origami inspired wave energy converter through direct energy generation |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Flexible Funding Award of £99600 to deliver research project in line with competitive award process |
| Collaborator Contribution | Delivery of Flexible Fund Award and delivery of outputs as set out in competitive process |
| Impact | Flexible Fund Award has only just started, outcomes/outputs are expected in 12 months |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Flexible Funding Award - Assessment anf Mitigation of Water Tree Formation in Futute 132kV Wet-type Dynamic Cables |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Flexible Funding Award of £100000 to deliver research project in line with competitive award process |
| Collaborator Contribution | Delivery of Flexible Fund Award and delivery of outputs as set out in competitive process |
| Impact | Flexible Fund Award has only just started, outcomes/outputs are expected in 12 months |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Flexible Funding Award - Design and develppment of a new generation of dielectric elastomer generators for wave applications |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Flexible Funding Award of £100000 to deliver research project in line with competitive award process |
| Collaborator Contribution | Delivery of Flexible Fund Award and delivery of outputs as set out in competitive process |
| Impact | Flexible Fund Award has only just started, outcomes/outputs are expected in 12 months |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Flexible Funding Award - High Resolution Field Assessment of Inflow and Wake Fields |
| Organisation | Queen's University Belfast |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Flexible Funding Award of £99963 to deliver research project in line with competitive award process |
| Collaborator Contribution | Delivery of Flexible Fund Award and delivery of outputs as set out in competitive process |
| Impact | Flexible Fund Award has only just started, outcomes/outputs are expected in 12 months |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Flexible Funding Award - Maximising potential of shallow ports for floating offshore wind deployment |
| Organisation | University of Aberdeen |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Flexible Funding Award of £75000 to deliver research project in line with competitive award process |
| Collaborator Contribution | Delivery of Flexible Fund Award and delivery of outputs as set out in competitive process |
| Impact | Flexible Fund Award has only just started, outcomes/outputs are expected in 12 months |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Flexible Funding Award - Offshore Wind Turbine Life Extension Monitoring |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Flexible Funding Award of £100000 to deliver research project in line with competitive award process |
| Collaborator Contribution | Delivery of Flexible Fund Award and delivery of outputs as set out in competitive process |
| Impact | Flexible Fund Award has only just started, outcomes/outputs are expected in 12 months |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Flexible Funding Award - Permeable tip new-concept control on turbine tip vortex and cavitation |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Flexible Funding Award of £99971 for research project to be conducted |
| Collaborator Contribution | Completion of research project awarded |
| Impact | Outcomes not found yet |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Flexible Funding Award - Pressure cycling control on flow and soil deformation for suction caisson installation |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Flexible Funding Award of £99787 to deliver research project in line with competitive award process |
| Collaborator Contribution | Delivery of Flexible Fund Award and delivery of outputs as set out in competitive process |
| Impact | Flexible Fund Award has only just started, outcomes/outputs are expected in 12 months |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Flexible Funding Award - Pressure cycling control on flow and soil deformation for suction caisson installation |
| Organisation | University of Strathclyde |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Award of £99835.61 to University of Strathclyde to undertake Flexible Funding Award |
| Collaborator Contribution | Delivery of competitively allocated Flexible Funding Award |
| Impact | No outcomes have yet to be achieved |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Flexible Funding Award - Reliable corrosion fatigue predicitions using physically-based models |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Flexible Funding Award of £99,059 to University of Oxford to deliver research |
| Collaborator Contribution | Completion of competitively allocated Flexible Funding Award |
| Impact | Outcomes have yet to be achieved |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | International collaboration - University of Western Australia |
| Organisation | University of Western Australia |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration and sharing of research outcomes |
| Collaborator Contribution | Review of Flex Fund proposals, event attendance and dissemination of research outcomes |
| Impact | Review of Flex Fund proposals, event attendance and dissemination of research outcomes |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | PDRA 3 month buyout scheme for research projects - Mocean Energy Ltd |
| Organisation | Mocean Energy |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Research Project Activities 1. Mocean will design, construct and loan a physical model of the WEC with a hinge angle sensor. The University will loan (to Mocean, at Mocean's risk) one (or two) 6-dof load cell(s) to be fitted into a mount (provided by Mocean) between the nacelle and the hull(s). The University will provide Qualisys motion tracking equipment, including targets, and liaise with Mocean on the design of the Qualisys mounts for the targets on the model. The University will provide lightweight load cells for sensing the mooring loads. The University T will provide to Mocean use of its wave tank for such periods as are agreed by the Parties in writing, and instrumentation specifications that will allow the designing of the model and fixing of model scale. 2. University personnel being Dr Scott Brown (PDRA) plus academic support plus COAST technical support, will assist in the development and testing of the methods for establishing the requisite wavetrains for exciting the WEC MLER. It is expected that determining the hinge angle MLER will be the initial task, followed by mooring and structural ULS. 3. Mocean personnel, in consultation with the University's personnel, will devise a test plan that meets the Mocean goals and is adapted to the COAST capability. 4. The University will carry out wave tank testing at COAST. Mocean personnel will also attend, and the testing will be carried out collaboratively. Video recordings of the tests will be made, synchronised with the model and motion capture recordings. 5. Initial tests will include regular waves to determine the model WEC RAO, and irregular waves; the latter should be sufficient in length and number to inform the construction of the MLER wavetrains, and to provide sufficient fallback data for a conventional analysis. That done, the MLER tests can proceed, with wavetrains derived from representative spectra and realised according to the MLER principles. The repeatability of each wavetrain, and of its effects on the model will be examined. 6. The University will process and analyse the data and provide both raw and processed data to Mocean. It is intended that this process will also be collaborative, with virtual meetings (typically at bi-weekly intervals) to support progress. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research Project Activities 1. Mocean will design, construct and loan a physical model of the WEC with a hinge angle sensor. The University will loan (to Mocean, at Mocean's risk) one (or two) 6-dof load cell(s) to be fitted into a mount (provided by Mocean) between the nacelle and the hull(s). The University will provide Qualisys motion tracking equipment, including targets, and liaise with Mocean on the design of the Qualisys mounts for the targets on the model. The University will provide lightweight load cells for sensing the mooring loads. The University T will provide to Mocean use of its wave tank for such periods as are agreed by the Parties in writing, and instrumentation specifications that will allow the designing of the model and fixing of model scale. 2. University personnel being Dr Scott Brown (PDRA) plus academic support plus COAST technical support, will assist in the development and testing of the methods for establishing the requisite wavetrains for exciting the WEC MLER. It is expected that determining the hinge angle MLER will be the initial task, followed by mooring and structural ULS. 3. Mocean personnel, in consultation with the University's personnel, will devise a test plan that meets the Mocean goals and is adapted to the COAST capability. 4. The University will carry out wave tank testing at COAST. Mocean personnel will also attend, and the testing will be carried out collaboratively. Video recordings of the tests will be made, synchronised with the model and motion capture recordings. 5. Initial tests will include regular waves to determine the model WEC RAO, and irregular waves; the latter should be sufficient in length and number to inform the construction of the MLER wavetrains, and to provide sufficient fallback data for a conventional analysis. That done, the MLER tests can proceed, with wavetrains derived from representative spectra and realised according to the MLER principles. The repeatability of each wavetrain, and of its effects on the model will be examined. 6. The University will process and analyse the data and provide both raw and processed data to Mocean. It is intended that this process will also be collaborative, with virtual meetings (typically at bi-weekly intervals) to support progress. |
| Impact | To investigate Most Likely Extreme Response (MLER) methods as a means of determining maximum hinge angles, ultimate load states (ULS) for the hull structure, and maximum mooring loads. In the longer term, we anticipate that MLER will save time and effort compared to model testing in long and numerous realisations of irregular waves and will provide results with improved confidence |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Research support partner - CEFAS |
| Organisation | Centre For Environment, Fisheries And Aquaculture Science |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration and sharing of research outputs |
| Collaborator Contribution | Attending events/workshops & Flex Fund reviews |
| Impact | Attending events/workshops & Flex Fund reviews |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| 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 | APPG for the Celtic Sea - Making Floating Offshore Wind a Reality in the South West |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to APPG Celtic Sea Group on the Impact of FLOW on the South West Economy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| 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 | All Energy Panel: Marine and FoW consenting: How to streamline the process |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Part of Panel to discuss ways to speed up consenting for offshore floating wind |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.all-energy.co.uk/en-gb/conference.html |
| Description | Archer2 Celebration of Science |
| 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 | "Introduction to the HEC-WSI", presented by Raynold (Yiyun) Tan, ARCHER2 Celebration of Science, Edinburgh, March 2024. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | BBC World Service - The Climate Question, October 2023 |
| 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 | Interview for the BBC world service around the role of ORE in tackling the climate crisis |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Board-Executive-Councils Conference - British Antarctic Survey |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | British Antarctic Survey board meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | COP28 UN Climate Change Conferences 2023 |
| 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 | Exhibiting and participating in panel sessions at Climate Change talks |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Celtic Sea APPG, Making Floating Offshore Wind a Reality in Wales |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Providing evidence to an All Party Political Group on Celtic Sea development |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | CoSeC Annual Conference |
| 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 | "Multiscale Universal Interface for Heterogeneous High-Performance Computing Systems", Omar Mahfoze, CoSeC annual conference and Computing Insight UK 2023, Manchester, 6th-8th December 2023. It is a presentation by CCP-WSI CoSeC staff at the annual CoSeC conference and Computing Insight UK 2023, which attracted about 75 academic researchers from various CoSeC-supported disciplines. The talk highlighted the excellence of CCP-WSI outputs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | European Marine Board Webinar: Ecosystem effects of offshore windfarms: How to understand and use them for a sustainable future' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar for European and wider audience to go over issues in new European Marine Board Report on Offshore Energy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.marineboard.eu/events/emb-science-webinar-ecosystem-effects-offshore-windfarms-understan... |
| Description | European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference 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 | The European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference is now in its 15th year and presents a robust understanding of marine energy technologies for the benefit of society. This year the conference was held in Bilbao, Spain and the Supergen ORE Hub attended as a sponsor with a presence in the Networking and Sponsors area where we enjoyed meeting with people from all over the world interested in the progress of ocean energy research. The Supergen ORE Hub offered participants a chance to learn about the findings of the Tidal Turbine Benchmarking project in an afternoon seminar on the penultimate day of the conference. Professor Richard Willden - Professor of Engineering Science from the University of Oxford and Supergen ORE Hub Co-Director - along with the project's Co-Author Dr Xiaosheng Chen - Postdoctoral Research Assistant from the University of Oxford - presented to a full room with standing room only, summarising the benchmarking study and opening a discussion around impact and next steps. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/european-wave-and-tidal-energy-conference |
| Description | Green Man Festival 2023 |
| 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 Supergen ORE Hub enjoyed another opportunity to showcase the wonders of offshore renewable energy at Einstein's Gardens at the Green Man Festival. The Supergen ORE Hub stall was part of a science engagement area and welcomed over 1000 young visitors to engage with fun and creative activities that demonstrate how we can create energy from the wind and the sea. Our stall allowed the young visitors to create their own waves in the mini-wave tanks, design paper wind turbines and 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 takes her on an exploration of wind, wave and tidal energy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/green-man-festival |
| Description | High Value Manufacturing Centre and Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult Parliamentary Reception |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Address to policymakers on development of ORE |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Institution of Civil Engineers Beyond Brunel Net Zero Podcast 2023 |
| 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 | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Interview provided to ICE podcast on ORE and unlocking South West England vision |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ice.org.uk/news-insight/news-and-blogs/latest-news/news/new-beyond-brunel-podcast-south-... |
| Description | International Scientific Committee of the One Ocean Science Congress |
| 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 | Providing expert advice to a new international committee on protecting and developing the worlds ocean resources |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Invited Presentation: 7th Conference on Wind energy and Wildlife impacts - CWW 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented to audience of Offshore Developers and Researchers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://cww2023.org/ |
| Description | Marine Energy Panel chair All Energy 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Chairing of panel of experts from across industry and academia on the development of the marine energy sector in the UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | Meeting with STFC Library Group Leader |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | "CCP-WSI Resource Object Catalogue", Gemma Poulter, April, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory UK, Meeting with STFC Library Group Leader to encourage collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | PANEL SESSION NATIONAL DECOMMISSIONING CENTRE ENERGY INTEGRATION: COMPETITION, CONSENSUS AND COLLABORATION |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Panel discussion on Energy Integration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.abdn.ac.uk/research/explore/energy-transition/offshore-europe-2023-1444.php |
| Description | PRIMaRE Conference 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of a poster at the PRIMaRE conference, 27-28 Jul., Bath, U.K. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Plymouth City Council FLOW Conference, October 2023 |
| 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 | Professor Deborah Greaves OBE addressed business and regional leaders at the event in Plymouth on the opportunities for FLOW in the Celtic Sea |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/conference-hears-how-floating-offshore-wind-could-be-a-game-changer-... |
| Description | Presentation to the Society for Underwater Technologies on the Supergen ORE Hub |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to members of the Marine Renewable Energy Group of the Society for Underwater Technologies on the work of the Supergen ORE Hub |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Project Partner Meeting January 2024 |
| 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 | Project workshop with investigators, researchers, external and industry partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | RenewableUK floating Offshore Wind, Aberdeen, 5 October 2023 |
| 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 | Panel member at RUK and Scottish Renewables FLOW conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.scottishrenewables.com/events/198-floating-offshore-wind-2023 |
| Description | Society for Underwater Technology (SUT) Marine Renewable Energy Committee, January 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited speaker to Society for Underwater Technology (SUT) Marine Renewable Energy Committee, January 2024 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | South West Think Tank Launch Event - Houses of Parliament |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Launch of the South West Think Tank which provides evidence-led, independent, workable policy solutions for the far south west (Cornwall, Devon and Somerset). To this end, the panel session intended to convey the combined strengths of the universities to deliver on this. The panel referenced: • Expertise in the issues and opportunities for the region • Partnerships with key regional organisations and connections with local communities • Examples of success in previous policy work, and the impact. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Supergen ORE Hub - Core Research Workstreams 1 to 5 Workshop |
| 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 | Supergen ORE Hub core research meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Supergen ORE Hub - ECR Forum 2023 |
| 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 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. Each ECR attending the Forum is invited to submit a poster presentation as an opportunity to promote their research and engage with other conference attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/supergen-ore-hub-ecr-forum-2023 |
| Description | Supergen ORE Hub - Flexible Funding Call 4 - Proposal Brokerage 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 | As part of the Flexible Funding call we are running a brokerage event to bring together Academic and Industry partners in order to broker collaborations and develop high quality submissions to the funding call. You will be able to hear more details about the funding call, including the requirements of our co-funders, Wave Energy Scotland and the ORE Catapult Floating Offshore Wind Centre of Excellence. You will also be able to post your research ideas and requirements to other delegates, through our online event platform 'SpotMe', which will be accessible after the event to continue discussions to broker collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/supergen-ore-hub-flexible-funding-call-4-proposal-brokerage-workshop |
| Description | Supergen ORE Hub Annual Assembly 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 | 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 | 2023 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/supergen-ore-hub-annual-assembly-2023 |
| Description | Supergen ORE Hub/France Energies Marine meeting |
| 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 | Supergen ORE Hub and FEM exploratory meeting for collaborations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Talk for Bergen: Ecosystems, Climate Change and Offshore Energy: How do we achieve sustainability? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk to research groups in Bergen, Norway |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | The Life Scientific Interview, Radio 4 July 2023 |
| 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 popular podcast series examining the scientific biographies of leading scientists |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001pf3d |
| Description | UK Metamaterials Conference, 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 Metamaterials conference 2023 on Metamaterials for wave energy harvesting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://metamaterials.network/uk-metamaterials-network-conference-2023/ |
| Description | University of Bath I-SEE Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment (I-SEE) |
| 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 | Presenting and engaging in a seminar with the University of Bath I-SEE Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment (I-SEE) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | University of Plymouth Showcase, London, December 2023 |
| 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 | Speaker at the University of Plymouth Showcase, London, December 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Webinar - AI-Based Modelling, Digital Twin, and Control for Offshore Wind 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 | The first webinar took place on November 28 2023 and discussed AI-Based Modelling, Digital Twin, and Control for Offshore Wind Energy. Offshore wind energy is central to the UK's Net Zero Strategy, targeting a deployment of 50GW by 2030. Realising the full potential of offshore wind requires a dual approach: swift capacity expansion and a boost in system efficiency and cost reduction. However, the industry faces challenges in meeting these objectives. The rapid growth of offshore wind is outpacing the advancement of essential technologies throughout the life cycle of wind farms and turbines, such as design, operations, and maintenance. In these critical aspects, many traditional methods encounter difficulties in managing the increasing complexities and the massive amounts of data being produced. For instance, wake effects can undermine conventional control strategies, potentially reducing offshore wind farm output by 5-20%. AI offers new ways to address these challenges and facilitate an unprecedented expansion of offshore wind. This webinar showcases our latest results in integrating AI with offshore wind, including novel modelling, digital twin, and control methodologies for wind farms. We demonstrate that AI-powered wind farm modelling enables real-time predictions on standard laptops, which traditionally demand thousands of supercomputer CPU hours. Additionally, we demonstrate that by fusing physics and data via physics-informed deep learning, digital twins of wind farm flows can be established to predict the in situ spatiotemporal wind field covering the entire wind farm. We introduce several advanced wind farm control strategies based on reinforcement learning, designed to enhance the whole farm-level power generation even in the presence of significant wake effects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/ai-based-modelling-digital-twin-and-control-for-offshore-wind-energy |
| Description | Webinar - On the development of a short design event approach for speeding up the prediction of design loads for floating wind turbines |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This webinar focused on The development of a short design event approach for speeding up the prediction of design loads for floating wind turbines. The floating offshore renewable energy (FORE) design process recommended by standards authorities requires the simulation of thousands of different design load cases (DLCs). The DLC which has the device in survival mode requires multiple 1 hour simulations per sea state along a 50-year return period contour. For fixed offshore wind a constrained wave approach is permitted where a nonlinear regular wave or NewWave (average profile of the largest wave expected in a particular sea state) is embedded into a 10-minute background wave, which is then used in place of the 1-hour simulations to save time and cost. However, such a constrained wave method is not appropriate for FORE devices as it is not necessarily the largest wave which produces the largest response of interest. A response conditioned focused wave method where the magnitude and phase of the linear response amplitude operators (RAOs) has been adapted from the area of ship design to try and produce an alternative constrained wave method for FORE. The method has been extended to incorporate wind loading for floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) and tested numerically on 8 devices covering the 4 main platform types (Spar, semi-sub, TLP, barge). This research was conducted in collaboration with DNV and Vercity, building on the work carried out as part of the Supergen ORE Hub Work Package Four (Design for Future ORE Solutions) and was extended through an EPSRC-funded impact accelerator award. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/events/on-the-development-of-a-short-design-event-approach-for-speeding-up-... |
| Description | Webinar - The impacts of wind energy extraction on the physics and primary production in Scottish shelf waters |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar - Presenting on the impacts of wind energy extraction on the physics and primary production in Scottish shelf waters |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://supergen-ore.net/news-and-events/webinars |
| 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 | 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 |
| Description | workshop: Hosted by JNCC and Ørsted on kittiwake and fish prey interactions. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop on kittiwake and fish prey interactions and how that influences placement of offshore wind |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |