Reflecting on an Inspiring Annual Assembly

We were thrilled to welcome the offshore renewable energy community to our Annual Assembly for a day of in-depth discussion, new connections, and shared insight. The Supergen ORE Hub provides research leadership to connect academia, industry, policy and public stakeholders to drive innovation and advocate for offshore renewable energy research. The Annual Assembly provides the ideal platform to collaborate and share cutting-edge, high impact research and keep pace with advancements in the rapidly evolving offshore renewable energy sector. 

Thank you to all our speakers and panellists for their time and perspectives. Throughout the day, we heard from researchers addressing critical issues around the acceleration of offshore renewable deployment, to insight from those working at the forefront of the sector's industrialisation and a broad showcase of innovative work from our early career researcher community.

On Monday 14 April, the Early Career Researcher Forum welcomed 55 participants for focused sessions on research progression and career development, designed to connect and support the next generation of research leaders.

Thank you to everyone who joined us. We hope the momentum continues and you stay engaged through conversations, collaborations, and upcoming Supergen ORE Hub activities. Sign up to our newsletter, sign up to a Masterclass or webinar. 

If you weren't able to join us, the full event recording will be available soon, and in the meantime, additional content is available below. 

The full event recording is available here, along with additional research material that extends beyond what was shared at the Assembly.

Watch the event recording.

Supergen ORE Hub Core Partners

Led by the University of Plymouth, the Supergen ORE Hub brings together expertise from the Universities of Exeter, Southampton, Warwick, Oxford, Hull, Manchester, Strathclyde, Aberdeen and Edinburgh. Each partner contributes research across different workstreams of the offshore renewable energy landscape, collectively addressing the sector’s key challenges.

  • University of Oxford

A Numerical Modelling Approach for Jacket Pile Foundations in Offshore Wind Turbines

  • University of Plymouth

Workstream 4 - Floating Offshore Renewable Energy Design

  • University of Strathclyde

Workstream 5 - Future ORE Systems and concepts

  • University of Warwick

Multi-scale observation and modelling for offshore wind farm

  • University of Exeter

Workstream 4 - Dynamic Power Cables

  • University of Hull

Fibre Optic Sensors for Subsea Power Cable Monitoring

  • University of Aberdeen

Recommendations for streamlining of consenting policy

  • University of Aberdeen and University of Manchester

Wind Farm Wake Effects on Marine Ecosystems

  • University of Manchester

Work Stream 3 - Engineering Wake Models

Research from the Early Career Researcher Community

View the Posters submitted as part of the Early Career Researcher Forum 2025:

Additional content  from the Early Career Researcher network:

  • Isha Saxena, Durham University

Reducing Uncertainty for Bayesian Analysis in Wind Energy Systems

  • Zhenyi Yan, University of Plymouth

Enhancing Marine Concrete Performance: Fatigue Mechanics of Polymer-Modified Concrete

Research from the wider offshore renewable energy community

 

  • Jun Zang, University of Bath

A Novel Machine Learning Model to Fast Predict Nonlinear Wave Forces on Monopile-Type Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations

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