Wednesday 20 January 2021

Panel members include:

Yann Herve de Roeck - Vice-chair of the Ocean Energy Systems Program (International Energy Agency)

Jan Matthiesen - Director of Offshore Wind (Carbon Trust)

Luca Grispiani - Tecnalia Research and Innovation - INORE

Professor Athanasios Kolios - Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering (University of Strathclyde)

Panel members include:

Professor Xiaowei Zhao - Professor of Control Engineering & Co-Director of the Supergen ORE Hub (University of Warwick)

Professor Li Ran - Professor in Power Electronics (University of Warwick)

Professor James Windmill - Professor in Electronic and Electrical Engineering (University of Strathclyde)

Prof Xiaowei Zhao from the University of Warwick gives an update into the 'Control of Offshore Wind Turbines and Farms'

Prof Li Ran from the University of Warwick gives an update to the Flexible Funded project 'Enhancing control capability of ORE systems for stress management and grid support'

Prof James Windmill from the University of Strathclyde gives an update to the Flexible Funded project 'Smart piezoelectric metamaterials for partial discharge monitoring'

Panel members include:

Professor James Gilbert - Professor of Engineering & Co-Director of the Supergen ORE Hub (University of Hull)

Dr Jeffrey Steynor - Project Manager FASTBLADE (University of Edinburgh)

Dr Benjamin Williamson - Lead Scientist, Environmental Research Institute (University of Highlands and Islands)

Dr Michael Togneri - Lecturer in Engineering (Swansea University)

Professor Jim Gilbert from the University of Hull gives an introduction into the Tackling the Research Challenges themes 'Resource and environment characterisation and Survivability, reliability and design'

Dr Jeffrey Steynor from the University of Edinburgh gives an introduction into the Flexible Funded project 'Loadtide - Full Scale Fatigue Testing for improved composite design'

Dr Benjamin Williamson from the University of the Highlands and Islands gives an update to the Flexible Funded project 'Validating surface currents at ORE sites'

Michael Togneri from Swansea University gives an update to the Flexible Funded project 'Wave-Turbulence Interaction and Measurement for Tidal Stream'