Supergen ORE Hub Autumn Assembly - Offshore Renewable Energy: Towards 2030 and beyond for Net Zero
29 September 2022, hosted by St Catherine's College at the University of Oxford
About the Autumn Assembly
The Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Hub organise an Annual Assembly to give an opportunity to those working in the offshore wind, wave and tidal energy sectors the chance to explore and debate cutting-edge research, find out about the latest opportunities and challenges in offshore renewable energy technologies, and network with the offshore renewable community, including academics, industry professionals and policymakers.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our Annual Assemblies in January 2021 and 2022 were held virtually. In 2022 we organised an additional Assembly to give people the opportunity to come together to meet and network in person. This 2022 Autumn Assembly showcased and celebrated ORE research, and was a chance to review and update our Research Landscape, as well as plan for future activities to support ORE towards 2030 and beyond.
Assembly resources
Welcome
Watch a recording of the live session from Professor Deborah Greaves OBE - Supergen ORE Hub Director (University of Plymouth), and view PDF of slides.
Keynote speaker
Watch a recording of the live keynote session from Huub den Rooijen - Managing Director, Marine (The Crown Estate).
Overview of core research in the Supergen ORE Hub
Watch a recording of the live session
- Chair: Henry Jeffrey (University of Edinburgh)
Watch the pre-recorded video | View PDF of slides - Professor Dave White (University of Southampton) and Professor Beth Scott (University of Aberdeen)
Watch the pre-recorded video | View PDF of slides - Professor Tim Stallard (University of Manchester) and Professor Richard Willden (University of Oxford)
Watch the pre-recorded video | View PDF of slides - Professor Deborah Greaves (University of Plymouth)
Watch the pre-recorded video | View PDF of slides - and Professor Jim Gilbert (University of Hull)
Watch the pre-recorded video | View PDF of slides - Professor Philipp Thies (University of Exeter)
Watch the pre-recorded video | View PDF of slides - Dr Shen Li on half of Professor Feargal Brennan (University of Strathclyde)
View PDF of slides - Professor Xiaowei Zhao (University of Warwick)
View PDF of slides
You can find out more about our core research and work packages in the brochure here
How do we engage/bring the public along with the transition to net zero and grow and sustain the workforce needed, ensuring that equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) is a core element, to 2030 and beyond?
Watch a recording of the live session
- Chair: Prof. Dave White - University of Southampton
View PDF of slides - Prof. Jim Gilbert - University of Hull
- Sue Barr - Chair Marine Energy Council
- Tim Camp - Director of Turbine Engineering - ABL Group
- Adam Morrison - Chair and Project Director for Moray West Offshore Wind Farm - Ocean Winds
- Ross Wigg - Lead Industrial Partner for the Supergen ORE Hub
- Prof. Peter Robertson - Professor of Chemical Engineering, QUB
Supergen ORE Hub Flexible Funded projects
Watch a recording of the live session
The links below will navigate you to individual project pages, where you can view various reports, blogs, videos, and slide decks for each project.
- Dr Ajit Pillai - Demonstrating a machine learning system to integrate metocean data, sensor networks, and model output for improved coverage and accuracy
- Dr Marcin Kapitaniak - Cost Effective Methods of Installing Offshore Wind Infrastructure
- Dr Hitesh Halai - SharEd Anchor Multidirectional Load Envelopes with Strength Synthesis (SEAMLESS)
- Dr Muhammad Shamir - COrrosion And fatigue protection of offshore wind Turbine structures using additive manufacturing technology (COATing)
- Dr Andrew Reid - Smart piezoelectric metamaterials for partial discharge monitoring
- Dr Benjamin Williamson - V-SCORES (Validating Surface Currents at Offshore Renewable Energy Sites)
- Dr Michael Togneri - WTIMTS (Wave-Turbulence Interaction and Measurement for Tidal Stream)
- Dr Chris Old - FASTWATER: Freely-Available mesoScale simulation Tool for Wave, Tides and Eddy Replication
- Dr Tapas Kumar Das - Investigation into the coupling of a wave energy converter with a reverse osmosis desalination plant
- Dr Mokarram Hossain - Submerged bi-axial fatigue analysis for flexible membrane Wave Energy Converters
The following projects were not able to present at the Autumn Assembly, but provided pre-recorded videos:
- Dr Samuel Draycott - Accounting for Current in Wave Buoy Measurements
- Dr Marco Placidi - Veers’ Extension to Non-neutral Incoming Winds (VENTI)
- Dr Tony Chen - Impact of in-service oscillatory movement on insulation reliability of AC and DC cables serving offshore platforms
- Dr Brian Sheil - iDRIVE: Intelligent Driveability Forecasting for Offshore Wind Turbine Monopile Foundations
- Dr Ed McCarthy - LoadTide
- Dr Denise Risch - FORTUNE
- Dr Christopher Unsworth - Cable scour from fluid-seabed interactions in regions of mobile sedimentary bedform
You can find out more about all our Flexible Funded projects on our impact page
How do we accelerate learning and sharing of best practice in ORE through international collaboration and what is the role of the Supergen ORE Hub in providing research leadership for ORE to achieve targets for 2030, 2050 and beyond?
Watch a recording of the live session
- Chair: Prof. Tim Stallard - University of Manchester
- Megan Smith - Head of Offshore Wind Advisory, Carbon Trust
- Paul McKeever – Head of Electrical Research, ORE Catapult | View a PDF of slides
- Benjamin Child – DNV GL | View a PDF of slides
- Isabella Panovic - Senior Portfolio Manager – Energy & Decarbonisation, EPSRC | View a PDF of slides
- Jeremy Thake - Independent Tidal Energy Consultant | View a PDF of slides
Additional and new ORE research projects and programmes
Watch a recording of the live session
- Prof Maurizio Collu, University of Strathclyde - Ocean-REFuel project
View a PDF of slides - Dr PuiWah Wong, University of Edinburgh - The Offshore Renewable Energy Roadmap 2030
View a PDF of slides - Dr Matthew Allmark, Cardiff University - Multi Energy Vector Demonstration Project Feasibility Study: Decarbonising Shipping Utilising Renewable Hydrogen
View a PDF of slides - Dr Mostafa Kheshti, University of Warwick - Offshore wind energy integration via liquid air energy storage system
View a PDF of slides - Lachlan Orr, Imperial College London - A Drone Platform for Autonomous Inspection and Repair of ORE Devices
View a PDF of slides
EPSRC Marine Wave Energy projects
- Chair: Professor Deborah Greaves - Flexible responsive systems in wave energy
Watch the pre-recorded video | View PDF of slides - Professor George Aggidis - Novel high performance wave energy converters with advanced control, reliability and survivability systems through machine-learning forecasting
Watch the pre-recorded video | View PDF of slides - Dr Nick Baker - MU-EDRIVE
Watch the pre-recorded video | View PDF of slides - Professor Peter Stansby - Mooring analysis and design for offshore WEC survivability and fatigue (MoorWEC)
Watch the pre-recorded video | View PDF of slides - Dr. Adam Stock - HAPiWEC
View PDF of slides - Dr Zhijing Liao - System-level co-design and control of large capacity wave energy converters with multiple PTOs
View PDF of slides - Professor Qingwei Ma - New generation modelling suite for the survivability of wave energy convertors in marine environments (WavE-Suite)
Watch the pre-recorded video | View PDF of slides - Dr Guillermo Idarraga Alarcon and Dr Farhad Abad - BASM-WEC – bionic adaptive stretchable materials for wave energy converters
Watch the pre-recorded video | View PDF of slides
What changes are needed within policy to enable targets for 2030 and beyond to be achieved within the context of ORE?
Watch a recording of the live session
- Chair: Prof. Deborah Greaves - Supergen ORE Hub Director, University of Plymouth
- Henry Jeffrey - Supergen IRE Hub Co-Director, University of Edinburgh
View PDF of slides - Si Dilks - Head of Nuclear and Renewables, BEIS
View PDF of slides - Steve Jermy – CEO, Celtic Sea Power
View PDF of slides - Capt. Panagiotis Stavrakakis - Head, Centre of Organisational Health and Wellbeing at HSE Science and Research Centre
View PDF of slides - Jim Fleming – Head of Energy, EPSRC
Early Career Researcher Posters
The Assembly showcased 21 posters from our Early Career Researcher Community with prizes being awarded to the following:
- Third place: Karim Ali (University of Manchester) - “Wind Farm Parameterisation in WRF”
- Second place: Dr Sam Tucker Harvey and Dr Xiaosheng Chen (University of Oxford) - “Unsteady Loading Tidal Benchmarking Project”
- First place: Markella Zormpa (University of Oxford) - “Dynamic Mode Decomposition of Wind Turbine Wakes”
You can view a booklet of all the ECR abstracts and posters here.
