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Offshore Wind and Wave: A Common Route Map

Offshore Wind and Wave: A Common Route Map. Phil Thompson - British Maritime Technology Chris French - NaREC Centre Director. Format. Common Issues Offshore Marine Renewable Initiatives NaREC Offshore Renewables Test Centre Funding & Timescales Conclusion. Common Issues Offshore.

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Offshore Wind and Wave: A Common Route Map

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  1. Offshore Wind and Wave: A Common Route Map Phil Thompson - British Maritime Technology Chris French - NaREC Centre Director

  2. Format • Common Issues Offshore • Marine Renewable Initiatives • NaREC Offshore Renewables Test Centre • Funding & Timescales • Conclusion

  3. Common Issues Offshore OFFSHORE GENERIC • Improved installation methods • Coastal grid connection • HV AC/DC power transmission • Consents management/EIA • Low speed DD generators • Techno-economic modelling • Reliability / Fault Control Wave & Tidal Offshore Wind • Moorings, fatigue of lines and connectors • Standardised and quick release electrical connectors • Fast track concept, prototype evaluation and testing • Wave device survivability • Performance Benchmarking • larger MW turbine and marine foundations • Large blade designs, fatigue and loadings • Short term meteorological forecasting GENERIC • Grid connection and stability • Embedded generation • Energy storage / fuel cells

  4. Initiatives • SeaPower Trade Association • BWEA & SeaPower links • NOF, NaREC

  5. The NaREC Vision To create a national Centre, recognised worldwide, in new and renewable energy technologies based upon key academic and industrial partnerships in offshore engineering, power generation and renewable energy.

  6. NaREC Offshore Renewables Test Centre

  7. NaREC Site Philosophy • Uniqueness • Nationally • Internationally • Integration • Electrical Power • IT and Communications • Flexibility • Market Relevance • Industrially • Academically

  8. Electrical Power Facility • Test 7MVA systems • Generation • High/Low Speed Machines • Linear Machines • Power Conditioning • Real Time Power Electronic Systems • Virtual Power Technology • Power Distribution • Embedded Generation • Weak and Islanded Grids

  9. Marine Power Facility • Wave Tank • Small Scale 40m long • Large Scale 80m by 14m • Tidal / Wave / Wind Tank • Small Scale – 4m by 2m • Large Scale – 80m by 12m • Structures Tank • 140m by 18m by 15m deep • Cavitation Tunnel • Emerson Cavitation Tunnel

  10. External Test Facility • Onshore • Flexible Test Stations of 10kW,50kW and 300kW • Wind test Stations • Solar test stations • Offshore • 300kW Test Station • 1MW Test Station • 5MW Test Station

  11. Technology Transfer • Training Centre • Visitor Centre • Energy • Renewables • NaREC Office • Core • Industrial

  12. Integrated Facilities • Power Infrastructure • IT Infrastructure • Concurrent Testing • Device Testing • Power Generation • Power Interfacing • Power Transmission • Power Distribution • Grid Connection

  13. Funding and Timescales • Electrical Power Facility £3.5m • Marine Power Facility £4.5m • External Test Facility £5m • Clean Fuels Facility £2m • Technology Transfer Facility £1m • Integrated Infrastructure £2m • Status - £10m of £18m now secured • First Integrated Tests by Summer 2003

  14. Conclusion • Business Plan • Key Partnerships • CAPEX Implementation • Core Research • NaREC Building • NaREC Site • Portal Site info@narecmail.com http://www.global-renewables.com

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