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MARINET: Marine Renewables Infrastructure Network for Emerging Energy Technologies |
Professor Ian Bryden
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MARINET, the Marine Renewables Infrastructure Network, is a network of research centres and organisations that are working together to accelerate the development of marine renewable energy technologies - wave, tidal and offshore-wind. It is co-financed by the European Commission specifically to enhance integration and utilisation of European marine renewable energy research infrastructures and expertise. MARINET offers periods of free-of-charge access to world-class R&D facilities & expertise and conducts joint activities in parallel to standardise testing improve testing capabilities and enhance training & networking.
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Land of the MUSCos |
Professor Gareth Harrison
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Present infrastructure service delivery, characterized by isolated supply streams for an uncontrolled demand, is uneconomical, inefficient, and ultimately unsustainable. What kinds of alternatives can be identified and implemented? In this project, we research and promote the establishment of Multi-Utility Service Companies, or MUSCos.
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LEANWIND: Logistic Efficiencies and Naval Architecture for Wind Installations with Novel Developments |
Dr Lucy Cradden
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LEANWIND is a 4-year project that started in December 2013. It is led by a 31-partner consortium and has been awarded €10 million by the European Commission, but its total value amounts to €15 million.
The primary LEANWIND objective is to provide cost reductions across the offshore wind farm lifecycle and supply chain through the application of lean principles and the development of state of the art technologies and tools.
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ElmoNet Q Project |
Dr Sasa Djokic
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Impact of increasing penetration of electrical vehicles and photovoltaic installations on power quality in public low voltage distribution networks
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Effective Marine Energy Design Subject to Ecological and Social Constraints |
Professor Alistair Borthwick
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Practical marine energy resources are subject to social and ecological constraints, such as conflict with other users of the sea and environmental protection. This research aims to contribute to a greater understanding of the practical constraints on marine energy developments, the extent to which they may limit the amount of power available for extraction and, most importantly, how energy production may be optimised within the limits set by these constraints.
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EURECA - Effects of utilisation in real-time on electricity capacity assessments |
Dr Hannah Chalmers
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EURECA, the Effects of Utilisation in Real-time on Electricity Capacity Assessments, investigates the operating regimes of thermal power plants in future generation portfolios with large amounts of variable renewable energy sources (VRE). The impacts of additional VRE and energy storage capacity on the operating profiles and flexibility of thermal power plans are investigated using a unit commitment and energy storage optimisation model.
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ETP Knowledge Exchange in Energy: Marine Energy |
Professor Ian Bryden
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Funding (ca. £3m) has been secured from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), Scottish Government, Scottish Funding Council, Scottish Enterprise and ETP Member Universities to establish a Knowledge Exchange (KE) Network. This will catalyse and accelerate KE activity between academia and SMEs, thereby increasing innovation, advancing the development of the low carbon economy in Scotland and supporting Scotland, UK and the EU to meet ambitious 2020 low carbon targets.
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Direct Drive Generator for a Tidal Turbine |
Professor Markus Mueller
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Nova Innovation and IES are collaborating to design, build and test a direct drive generator for Nova’s tidal current turbine.
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DTOcean: Optimal Design Tools for Ocean Energy Arrays |
Mr Henry Jeffrey
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DTOcean is a European collaborative project funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Development, more specifically under the call ENERGY 2013-1.
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Clearwater: Demonstration of First Ocean Energy Arrays |
Mr Henry Jeffrey
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This project will design, build, install and operate an open ocean 4.5MW tidal energy farm in the Inner Sound in the Pentland Firth, off the Northern coast of Scotland. The project ("Clearwater") will demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of a multi-turbine tidal energy array, an essential step to catalyse development of commercial projects in the EU ocean energy industry. Project Clearwater provides a credible, robustly implemented transition from high cost single turbine demonstration deployments of marine turbines to economically viable multi-hundred turbine arrays in oceans and managed water assets across Europe and the wider global market.
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