Tuesday 18 January 2022

  • Welcome, opening address and guest speakers – The potential of offshore renewable energy and perspectives on the next decade post COP26

Wednesday 19 January 2022

  • Policy session – Making it happen: Contribution of offshore renewable energy policy to net zero GHG 2050 and perspectives on COP26
  • Industry Session – Research and innovation priorities, and opportunities for collaboration between industry and academia
  • Tackling the Research Challenges: Theme B (Fluid structure seabed interaction) and Theme C (Materials and manufacturing)
  • Tackling the Research Challenges: Theme D (Sensing, control and electro-mechanics) and Themes A & G (Resource and environment characterisation, and Environmental and Ecosystem)

Thursday 20 January 2022

  • EDI session - Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in offshore renewable energy academia and industry - what has been effective so far?
  • Update on EPSRC Marine Wave Energy Programme
  • Tackling the Research Challenges: Theme E (Survivability, reliability and design) and Theme F (Operations, Management, Maintenance and Safety)
  • International Session – Latest developments in international offshore renewable energy research
  • Closing address

Tuesday 18 January 2022

Welcome, opening address and guest speakers – The potential of offshore renewable energy and perspectives on the next decade post COP26

  • Session chair: Professor Deborah Greaves OBE – Director of the Supergen ORE Hub (University of Plymouth)
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  • Professor Dame Julia King - (Baroness Brown of Cambridge) DBE, FRS, FREng
  • Sue Barr – Chair, Marine Energy Council
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  • Barnaby Wharton - Director, Future Electricity Systems, Renewable UK

Wednesday 19 January 2022

Policy session – Making it happen: Contribution of offshore renewable energy policy to net zero GHG 2050 and perspectives on COP26

  • Session chair: Henry Jeffrey - Supergen ORE Hub Co-Director (University of Edinburgh)
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  • Simon Richards - Development Manager (Marine), The Crown Estate View slides as PDF
  • Yannis (Ioannis) Dragotis - Head of Nuclear & Renewable Energy Innovation Delivery, and Tomasz Ligas - Head of Renewable Energy Innovation Delivery, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
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  • Dr Jim Fleming - Head of Energy, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
  • Sue Barr – Chair, Marine Energy Council (panel member)

Industry Session – Research and innovation priorities, and opportunities for collaboration between industry and academia

  • Session chair: Ross Wigg - CEO and Founder of Rayner Low Carbon Technologies Ltd and Lead Industrial Partner for the Supergen ORE Hub
  • Paul McKeever – Head of Electrical Research, ORE Catapult
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  • Rob Flynn - Commercial Manager, European Marine Energy Centre
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  • Kerry Hayes - Floating Offshore Wind Project Development Manager, Simply Blue Group
  • Marie Berthelot - Head of Renewables, EDF Energy
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  • Simon Cheeseman - Sector Lead (Wave and Tidal Energy) ORE Catapult (panel member)

Tackling the research challenges

Theme B: Fluid structure seabed interaction

Tackling the research challenges

Theme C: Materials and manufacturing

Tackling the research challenges

Theme D: Sensing, control and electro-mechanics

Tackling the research challenges

Themes A & G: Resource and environment characterisation, and Environmental and Ecosystem

Thursday 20 January 2022

EDI session - Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in offshore renewable energy academia and industry - what has been effective so far?

  • Session chair: Professor Jim Gilbert - Co-Director and EDI lead of Supergen ORE Hub (University of Hull)
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  • Dr Pooja Goddard – Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, Loughborough University and Royal Society Fellow
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  • Mara-Tafadzwa Makoni - Corporate Partnerships Lead, Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers
  • Ross Wigg - CEO and Founder of Rayner Low Carbon Technologies Ltd and Lead Industrial Partner for the Supergen ORE Hub
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  • Emma Toulson - Lead Stakeholder Advisor UK, Ørsted
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Update on EPSRC Marine Wave Energy Programme

  • Session Chair: Professor Deborah Greaves OBE, Professor of Ocean Engineering (University of Plymouth) - Flexible Responsive Systems in Wave Energy: FlexWave View slides as a PDF and watch a pre-recorded video
  • New Generation Modelling Suite for the Survivability of Wave Energy Convertors in Marine Environments (WavE-Suite) - Professor Qingwei Ma, Professor of Hydrodynamics (City, University of London) View slides as a PDF
  • Holistic Advanced Prototyping and Interfacing for Wave Energy Control - Dr Adam Stock, Research Fellow (University of Strathclyde) View slides as a PDF
  • Mooring analysis and design for offshore WEC survivability and fatigue (MoorWEC) - Professor Peter Stansby, Professor of Hydrodynamics (University of Manchester) View slides as a PDF
  • MUE-DRIVE: Marinisation and Upscaling of an All Electric Drivetrain for Wave Energy - Dr Nick Baker, Senior Lecturer (Newcastle University)
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  • Novel High Performance Wave Energy Converters with advanced control, reliability and survivability systems through machine-learning forecasting - Professor George Aggidis, Head of Energy Engineering (Lancaster University) View slides as a PDF and watch a pre-recorded video
  • Bionic Adaptive Stretchable Materials for WEC (BASM-WEC) - Dr Qing Xiao, Reader in Marine Hydrodynamics (University of Strathclyde) View slides as a PDF
  • System-level Co-design and Control of Large Capacity Wave Energy Converters with Multiple PTOs - Dr Guang Li, Reader in Control Engineering (Queen Mary University of London) View slides as a PDF

Tackling the research challenges session

Theme E: Survivability, reliability and design

Tackling the research challenges session

Theme F: Operations, Management, Maintenance and Safety

International Session – Latest developments in international offshore renewable energy research

  • Session chair: Henry Jeffrey - Supergen ORE Hub Co-Director (University of Edinburgh)
  • Dr Habib Dagher - Executive Director of the Advanced Structures & Composites Center, University of Maine View slides as a PDF
  • Wiebke Ebeling – Manager, Marine Energy Research Australia View slides as a PDF
  • Samantha Quinn - Program Specialist at Pacific Ocean Energy Trust View slides as a PDF
  • Edgar Gerardo Mendoza Baldwin - National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) View slides as a PDF
  • Dr Guangquan Xu - Offshore Wind Underwriter at Scor View slides as a PDF
  • Jose Luis Villate - Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency and Circularity Director - Technalia View slides as a PDF

Closing address

  • Professor Deborah Greaves OBE – Director of the Supergen ORE Hub (University of Plymouth) View slides as a PDF

Poster prize winners

  • First prize: Physics-informed machine learning for rapid fatigue assessments in offshore wind farms - Dr Robert Houseago, Dr Agote Mockute, Dr Nina Dethlefs (University of Hull) and Professor Elizabeth Cross (University of Sheffield)
  • Second prize: Measuring Wave Modulation by a Large Offshore Wind Farm - Dr David Christie (Bangor University)
  • Third prize: Dual-Purpose Wave Energy Breakwater System - Dr Krishnendu Puzhukkil (University of Plymouth) and Balaji Ramakrishnan (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)

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