Equitable Testing and Evaluation of Marine Energy Extraction Devices in terms of Performance, Cost and Environmental Impact

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1 Equitable Testing and Evaluation of Marine Energy Extraction Devices in terms of Performance, Cost and Environmental Impact Dr David Ingram Institute for Energy Systems The University of Edinburgh

2 Acknowledgements Funding from the European Commission s 7th Framework programme Theme ENERGY Prenormative research for ocean energy Grant No

3 Acknowledgements Coordinator David Ingram (Edinburgh) Management team: Cyrille Abonnel (EDF), Jose Villate (Tecnalia Robotiker), Cameron Jonstone (Strathclyde) WP leaders: Venki Venugoupal (Edinburgh), Brian Holmes (UCC), Bakr Bahaj (Southapton), Cristina Huertas-Olivares (WavEC), Tim Stallard (Manchester), George Smith (Exeter, Nathalie Rousseau (EU-OEA) Project Administrator Janet Taylor (Edinburgh)

4 The Project Small/Medium Collaborative Project 5.5m budget ( 4m EU Contribution) 23 Partners Universities, Developers, Certification Agency, Utilities, Trade Association, R&D Laboratories, Test site, and a Journalist 11 Member states UK, France, Spain, Ireland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, Holland, Italy, and Portugal. One of two FP7 projects on Marine Energy in the 2007 Call Runs until April 2011

5 Partners The University of Edinburgh Fundación Robotiker University of Strathclyde Electricité de France SA EU Ocean Energy Association University of Exeter University College Cork Wave Energy Centre The University of Manchester Southampton University Institut Français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer Det Norske Veritas Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche: Instituto di Scienze Marine Teamwork Technology Pelamis Wave Power Ltd European Marine Energy Centre Wave Dragon Uppsala University University of St Andrews Scottish Association of Marine Sciences Feisty Productions Ltd Aalborg University Actimar

6 Background

7 Motivation Governments are committing to high penetration of renewable generation Scottish Government: 31% of demand by 2011 and 50% by Ireland: 15% by 2010 and 33% by EU Heads of State: 20% by Much will come from hydro and wind, but Wave and tidal energy will make important contributions. Strong interest in promoting the sector Saltire prize. Scottish Government consultation on an enhanced ROC for wave and tidal energy. EU 2008 calls for new RTD and Demonstration projects.

8 Motivation The EU, National Governments, and Utilities are looking at large scale array deployments. They need technology evaluation, matching and selection technology pricing (whole life /kwh) to understand the environmental impact

9 Background The International standardisation process is beginning under IEC TC114 National work is also being undertaken EMEC Standards in the UK BERR Marine Renewables Development Fund (MRDF) protocols, also UK Danish evaluation procedures Irish scale testing protocols National mirror committees for TC114 SuperGen WS1 Tank testing protocols

10 2007 EU call Pre-normative research aiming at harmonised testing methods and comparative assessment of ocean energy converters in terms of Monitoring the performance, Cost and Environmental impact. Work under SuperGen Phase 1 was directly relevant Resource assessment Wave-to-wire models of arrays Economic costing models of devices Other outputs from Consortium DTI (BERR) Protocols for the MRDF [Wave and Tidal] Matching study for the Scottish Government SuperGen participation was critical

11 Relation to SuperGen Marine IEC TC114 Collaboration EquiMar SuperGen Marine DTI Protocols Matching Study Coordination Research

12 Work package structure WP1: Knowledge base WP2: Physical Environment Specification Engineering Assessment WP3: Concept Appraisal WP4: Sea Trial Assessment WP5: Deployment Assessment WP6: Environmental Assessment WP7: Economic Assessment WP8: Protocol Synthesis WP9: Dissemination EU-OEA IEC TC114 External organisations WP10: Coordination and Management

13 EquiMar protocols Physical environment assessment Device performance assessment System and component reliability assessment Economic assessment Environmental assessment

14 Final Remarks Project started on the 15 th of April 2008 Close engagement with IEC TC114 and national mirror committees Close engagement with stakeholder community through EU-OEA, ICOE conference, etc. For More Information Web: