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ARIES: Adaptation and Resilience in Energy Systems |
Professor Gareth Harrison
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The energy supply sector is undergoing massive technological changes to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, the climate is progressively changing creating new challenges for energy generation, networks and demand. The Adaptation and Resilience in Energy Systems (ARIES) project aims to understand how climate change will affect the UK gas and electricity systems and in particular its 'resilience'.
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CAUSE - Control of wave energy Arrays Using Storage of Energy |
Dr Jonathan Shek
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There are 3 main objectives in this project:
Answer the research question: Can energy storage radically improve off-grid and on-grid control in wave energy arrays? How can it be done?
Develop an electrical array model for wave energy, with energy storage and co-ordinated control
Strengthen the partnership between the UK and Chinese Institutions for future research collaboration
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COPTIC: Co-optimisation of CO2 transport, injection and capture |
Dr Hannah Chalmers
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Statement of the Project
Development of a very sound expertise on CO2 transportation infrastructure
Identification and understanding of uncertainties during integration of CO2 capture, compression, injection and reservoir units together with CO2 transportation system
Provide industry and academia with the required technical knowhow in this context
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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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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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Development and Evaluation of Sustainable Technologies for Flexible Operation of Conventional Power Plants |
Dr Hannah Chalmers
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The increasing amounts of renewable energy present on the national grid reduce C02 emissions caused by electrical power but they fit into an electrical grid designed for fossil fuels. Fossil fuels can be turned on and off at will and so are very good at matching variations in load. Renewable energy in the form of wind turbines is more variable (although that variability is much more predictable than most people think) and there is a need for existing power plants to operate much more flexibly to accommodate the changing power output from wind, tidal and solar power.
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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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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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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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EcoWatt2050 |
Prof Vengatesan Venugopal
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The Scottish Government is committed to promoting substantial sustainable growth in its marine renewable industries. Agreements for sea bed leases are already in place for 2GW of wave and tidal developments, and projects are progressing through the licensing process. Strategic marine planning for future phases of wave, tidal and offshore wind development is now in progress. For marine renewables to significantly contribute to the low-carbon energy mix towards 2050, significant offshore development in the form of very large scale arrays will be needed.
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