Offshore Wind and Wave:

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

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