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Coe et al.
This report outlines the “MASK3” wave tank test within the Advanced WEC Dynamics and Controls (AWDC) project. This test represents the final test in the AWDC project. The focus of the MASK3 test was to consider coordinated 3-degree-of-freedom (3DOF) control of a WEC in a realistic ocean environment. A key aspect of this test was the inclusion of a “self-tuning” mechanism which uses an…
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Smart and Noonan
GVA and Jobs Supported
- With UK deployment of 100MW per year from 2021/22, and a realistic share of a growing global market, the tidal stream industry could generate a net cumulative benefit to the UK by 2030 of £1,400m, consisting of £1,600m GVA from the domestic market and £1,100m GVA from exports, offset by £1,300m of revenue support. This would also support a total of almost 4,…
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Marine Energy Programme Board
Wave and tidal energy are the last two untapped global renewable resources, with an overall potential comparable to other major renewable resources. UK entrepreneurs, academic institutions and companies have invented, researched, developed and trialled the majority of leading technologies in this space. Many of these are now ready to make the move to commercial demonstration and deployment and…
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Regeneris Consulting Ltd and Cardiff Business School
Headline Summary of Findings
Purpose of the Report
i. Regeneris Consulting and the Welsh Economy Research Unit at Cardiff Business School were appointed by the Welsh Government to undertake an assessment of the potential economic contribution of marine energy to Wales. The report examines the economic benefits for Wales from future development of the sector using three…
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Marine Energy Pembrokeshire
In late 2014, Marine Energy Pembrokeshire carried out a survey of the marine energy industry in Wales. The purpose was to calculate the economic contribution of the sector to date, to understand future development plans, and what this could potentially contribute to the low carbon economy in Wales. The analysis covers wave, tidal stream and tidal range energy. Already in Wales, technology and…
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Marine Energy Wales
The global resource potential for marine renewable energy is vast, and as yet, largely untapped. Theoretical estimates indicate that harnessing the incredible power of the sea could provide a clean, low carbon, sustainable electricity source to meet the demands of the entire planet.
With some of the best marine resources in the world, Wales is playing a vital role in this emerging…
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Mason and Driver
The wave and tidal sector is moving from single device demonstration sites to multi-device arrays. One of the challenges the industry faces is the design of a cost effective and efficient electrical network to collect and transmit power from these devices to the shore. For some projects, such as MeyGen in the Pentland Firth, the solution is to connect each turbine to the shore individually.…
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Driver
The marine energy industry has reached the stage where a number of devices have completed pre-commercial, full-scale demonstration. Over the next few years, array-level projects will start to be constructed. One of the challenges facing the marine energy industry is the need to reduce the Levelised Cost of Energy (LCOE) of these projects. The lack of a standard marine electrical architecture…
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Mason
This document is the first of three reports that consider the future options for an industry preferred marine energy electrical architecture. The work was commissioned by the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult under the umbrella of the Marine Farm Accelerator and carried out by TNEI Services.
Over the next few years, marine energy converters will develop from single device…
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Livermore
As part of its aim of accelerating the commercial exploitation of marine energy, the Marine Farm Accelerator (MFA) seeks to understand the uncertainty in energy yield, and hence revenue, from wave and tidal energy projects. Its first step in this process has been to develop a taxonomy document, listing the categories of losses and uncertainties that should be considered in an Energy Production…
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Livermore
The Marine Farm Accelerator (MFA) has the aim of quantifying and reducing the uncertainties associated with energy yield predictions of marine energy projects. The process of determining uncertainty predictions on energy yield is reasonably well developed in the wind industry but is relatively immature in the wave and tidal energy sectors. As these industries develop, potential investors will…
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ORE Catapult
As the wave and tidal industries mature and commercial scale projects reach the point of financial investment decision (FID), it is important that energy yield and uncertainty assessments are presented clearly and consistently to all parties involved.
It is likely that for each wave or tidal energy project reaching FID, more than one energy yield and uncertainty assessment will be…
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ORE Catapult
This report is an analysis of the funding requirements and investment situation for the wave and tidal energy sector in the UK and suggests solutions that could facilitate the required investment to materially progress the sector. We have made some high level assumptions to estimate that, on its current trajectory, the tidal industry will need upwards of £100 million to get the first arrays to…
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ORE Catapult
The emerging marine renewable energy industry needs to continue to establish credibility by developing proven reliable technologies for energy conversion from both wave and tidal stream resources. The commercial potential of the technologies rests in demonstrating reliability of performance and an acceptable cost of energy. Innovation is required not only in device design and initial…
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ORE Catapult
This report is a technical summary of the work carried out to develop a Design for Reliability (DfR) process, focused specifically on Tidal Turbine devices. The body of work comprises Phase 1 of the Tidal Power Take Off Reliability Simulation (TiPTORS) collaboration agreement between Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult and Ricardo UK.
The DfR process has a number of key objectives;
… - Report:
ORE Catapult
The diverse range of technology concepts in tidal energy converters characterises this early stage of the tidal sector. However, in the last few years some technologies have been progressing faster towards the very first multiple deployments and commercialisation. The Horizontal Axis Tidal Turbine (HATT) is one of the more dominant configurations being developed. However, even within this “…
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Marine Renewables Industry Association (MRIA)
Ireland has an unprecedented opportunity to build a position of strength as a supply chain to the world- wide ocean energy industry. The policy landscape – including required legislation and provision of a policy framework for ocean energy- is moving in a positive direction but a greater sense of urgency is required. Most importantly, Government is negotiating an export framework with the…
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Binger
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) is an energy technology that converts solar radiation to electric power. OTEC system uses the ocean's natural thermal gradient—the ocean's layers of water have different temperatures—to drive a power producing cycle. As long as the temperature between the warm surface water and the cold deep water differs by about 20°C (36°F), an OTEC system can produce a…
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Wave Dragon
The Wave Dragon is an offshore Wave Energy Converter of the overtopping type. The development work is, to a large extent, built on proven technologies and Wave Dragon is by far the largest wave energy converter known today. Each unit will have a rated power of 1.5-12 MW or more depending on how energetic the wave climate is at the deployment site. In addition to this Wave Dragon - due to its…
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Smith
The EBAO project was developed to establish robust modelling methodologies that could be embedded into the marine energy project design cycle in order to protect, and even enhance, the natural environment while enabling array designs to maximise energy production. To achieve this, a unique consortium was assembled comprising marine environmental modellers with expertise covering the physical…
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