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
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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)
View slides as a PDF - Professor Dame Julia King - (Baroness Brown of Cambridge) DBE, FRS, FREng
- Sue Barr – Chair, Marine Energy Council
View slides as a PDF - Barnaby Wharton - Director, Future Electricity Systems, Renewable UK
Wednesday 19 January 2022
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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)
View slides as PDF - 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)
View slides as PDF - Dr Jim Fleming - Head of Energy, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
- Sue Barr – Chair, Marine Energy Council (panel member)
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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
View slides as a PDF - Rob Flynn - Commercial Manager, European Marine Energy Centre
View slides as a PDF - Kerry Hayes - Floating Offshore Wind Project Development Manager, Simply Blue Group
- Marie Berthelot - Head of Renewables, EDF Energy
View slides as a PDF - Simon Cheeseman - Sector Lead (Wave and Tidal Energy) ORE Catapult (panel member)
Tackling the research challenges
Theme B: Fluid structure seabed interaction
- Session chairs: Supergen ORE Hub Co-Directors: Professor Tim Stallard (University of Manchester) and Professor Richard Willden (University of Oxford)
Watch their Assembly video and view the slides as a PDF - Impact of Oscillatory Movement on Insulation Reliability of Cables Supplying Offshore Platforms: Dr Tony Lujia Chen - Lecturer in Electrical and Electron Engineering, University of Manchester
View video and project resources and view the slides as a PDF - Submerged bi-axial fatigue analysis for flexible membrane Wave Energy Converters: Dr Mokarram Hossain - Senior Lecturer - General Engineering, Swansea University
View video and project resources and view the slides as a PDF - Cost Effective Methods of Installing Offshore Wind Infrastructure: Dr Marcin Kapitaniak - Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen
View video and project resources and view the slides as a PDF - SharEd Anchor Multidirectional Load Envelopes with Strength Synthesis (SEAMLESS): Dr Benjamin Cerfontaine - Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering, University of Southampton
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Tackling the research challenges
Theme C: Materials and manufacturing
- Session chair: Supergen ORE Hub Co-Director: Professor Feargal Brennan (University of Strathclyde)
Watch Professor Brennan's Assembly video and view the slides as a PDF - Advanced, Modular Power Take-Off Design for Marine Energy Converters: Dr Jonathan Shek - Senior Lecturer and Discipline Programme Manager, University of Edinburgh
View video and project resources and view the slides as a PDF - COrrosion And fatigue protection of offshore wind Turbine structures using additive manufacturing technology (COATing): Dr Muhammad Shamir - Research Assistant, Cranfield University
View video and project resources and view the slides as a PDF - Development of Thermoplastic Composite Tidal Blades for Enhanced End of Life Recycling and Lower Cost Manufacturing (ThermoTide): Dr Dipa Roy - Senior Lecturer in Composite Materials and Processing, University of Edinburgh
View video and project resources and view the slides as a PDF - Physics-informed machine learning for rapid fatigue assessments in offshore wind farms: Dr Robert Houseago - Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Hull
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Tackling the research challenges
Theme D: Sensing, control and electro-mechanics
- Session chairs: Supergen ORE Hub Co-Directors: Professor Xiaowei Zhao (University of Warwick) and Professor Jim Gilbert (University of Hull)
Watch Professor Zhao's on-demand video and watch Professor Gilbert's on-demand video, and View their slides a PDF
- Enhancing Control Capability of ORE Systems for Stress Management and Grid Support: Professor Li Ran - Professor of Power Electronics - Systems, University of Warwick
View video and project resources and view the slides as a PDF - Smart piezoelectric metamaterials for partial discharge monitoring: Dr Rolan Mansour - Research Associate - Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde
View video and project resources and view the slides as a PDF - A hybrid and scalable digital twin for intelligent direct drive powertrain condition monitoring: Professor Alasdair McDonald, Chair in Renewable Energy Technology, University of Edinburgh
View video and project resources and view the slides as a PDF - Flow measurement for accurate tidal turbine design: Dr Anna Young - Lecturer - Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath
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Tackling the research challenges
Themes A & G: Resource and environment characterisation, and Environmental and Ecosystem
- Session chairs: Supergen ORE Hub Co-Directors: Professor Beth Scott (University of Aberdeen) and Professor David White (University of Southampton)
Watch their Assembly video and view the slides as a PDF - FORTUNE: Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Noise: Dr Denise Risch - Marine Mammal Ecologist, Scottish Association for Marine Science
View video and project resources and view the slides as a PDF - Accounting for Currents in Wave Buoy Measurements: Dr Samuel Draycott - Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Fellow, University of Manchester
View video and project resources and view the slides as a PDF - Veers’ Extension to Non-neutral Incoming Winds (VENTI): Dr Marco Placidi - Senior Lecturer in Experimental Fluid Mechanics, University of Surrey
View video and project resources and view the slides as a PDF - V-SCORES (Validating Surface Currents at Offshore Renewable Energy Sites): Dr Benjamin Williamson - Lead Scientist - Environmental Research Institute, University of Highlands and Islands
View video and project resources and view the slides as a PDF - WTIMTS - Wave-Turbulence Interaction and Measurement for Tidal Stream: Dr Michael Togneri - Postgraduate Research Assistant, Swansea University
View video and project resources and view the slides as a PDF - FASTWATER: Freely-Available mesoScale simulation Tool for Wave, Tides and Eddy Replication: Dr Chris Old - Research Associate in Resource Characterisation for ORE, University of Edinburgh
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Thursday 20 January 2022
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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)
View slides as a PDF - Dr Pooja Goddard – Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, Loughborough University and Royal Society Fellow
View slides as a PDF - 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
View slides as a PDF - 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)
View slides as a PDF and watch a pre-recorded video - 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
- Session chairs: Supergen ORE Hub Co-Directors: Professor Deborah Greaves OBE (University of Plymouth) and Professor Byron Byrne (University of Oxford)
Watch Professor Greaves' video
Watch Professor Byrne's video and view the slides as a PDF - Passive control of wave induced platform motions for semi-submersible FOWTs: Professor Ling Qian - Professor of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Manchester Metropolitan University
View video and project resources and view the slides as a PDF - Novel approaches for physical model testing of floating wind turbine platforms: Professor Sandy Day - Professor of Marine Hydrodynamics, University of Strathclyde
View video and project resources and view the slides as a PDF - Investigation into the coupling of a wave energy converter with a reverse osmosis desalination plant: Dr Tapas Kumar Das - Research Fellow, Queens University Belfast
View video and project resources and view the slides as a PDF - Improved models for multivariate metocean extremes (IMEX): Dr Ed Mackay - Research Fellow, University of Exeter
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Tackling the research challenges session
Theme F: Operations, Management, Maintenance and Safety
- Session chair: Supergen ORE Hub Co-Directors: Professor Philipp Thies (University of Exeter)
Watch Professor Thies' video and view the slides as a PDF - LoadTide – fatigue assessment of tidal turbine blades: Dr Fergus Cuthill - Experimental Officer - FASTBLADE Structural Composites Research Facility, University of Edinburgh
View video and project resources and view the slides as a PDF - iDRIVE: Intelligent driveability forecasting for offshore wind turbine monopile foundations: Dr Brian Sheil - Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow and Junior Research Fellow of St Catherine's College, University of Oxford
View project resources and view the slides as a PDF - Autonomous Biomimetic Robot-fish for Offshore Wind Farm Inspection: Tianyuan Wang - PhD Student, University of York
View project resources and view the slides as a PDF - Demonstrating a machine learning system to integrate metocean data, sensor networks, and model output for improved coverage and accuracy: Dr Ajit Pillai - Senior Lecturer in Autonomous Systems and Robotics, University of Exeter
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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
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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)
