Marine Renewables Commercialisation Fund: Array Technology Innovation Programme Angus Vantoch-Wood
MRCF Array Technology Innovation Programme Introduction to the Carbon Trust Overview of MRCF ATIP Advanced Mooring System for Wave and Tidal Arrays (Tension Technology International) Novel Drilled Rock Anchor Mooring (McLaughlin & Harvey) Turbulence in Marine Environments (TiME) research project (Partrac) Integrated Marine Energy Measurement Platform (IMEMP) (EMEC) CableFish Cable Installation Tool for Tidal Environments (Green Theme) 2
Introduction to the Carbon Trust Created in 2001 by the UK government to: accelerate our transition to a sustainable, low carbon economy Now an independent, not for dividends company (mission led) 160 experts including scientists, entrepreneurs, financiers, consultants, policy specialists, and project managers Offices in the UK and Beijing. Particularly active in the EU, Japan, South Korea, China, South Africa, Mexico and Brazil To date, we have reduced our customers costs by over 5 billion and helped them create substantial new revenue opportunities Providing advice, footprinting and technology development to businesses, governments and the public sector 3
Overview of Array Technology Innovation Programme Key Facts: The Array Technology Innovation Programme (ATIP) is part of the Marine Renewable Commercialisation Fund (MRCF), an 18m Scottish Government programme managed by the Carbon Trust Scope: Provide a step change cost reduction for first marine energy arrays. Supports enabling technology (not direct device development) Budget: Aprox. 3m (leveraging Approx. 5m) Timeframe: January 2014 - March 2016 Added value: 55 separate knowledge sharing requirements (reports, guidance docs, lessons learned, workshops, feed-in to Standards etc.) 4
Overview of Array Technology Innovation Programme HSE HSE management plan Track record Project Plan Technical Financial Team Risk Commercialisation Plan VoC support Exploitation plan Value Adding Novel Assessment Criteria Scottish Value Leverage value Stakeholders Sites Future benefits Additionality Knowledge sharing potential Cross technology Non-device specific Supports standards 5
Advanced Mooring System for Wave and Tidal Arrays Scope: Develop and qualify advanced mooring system comprising of: Novel anchor bag solution and qualified nylon mooring system Methodology: Software modelling, tank testing and sea trials at EMEC and FaBTest sites 6
Advanced Mooring System for Wave and Tidal Arrays 7
Novel Drilled Rock Anchor Mooring Leading Tidal Device Developer Scope: Design, fabricate and install a 200te remote operated, self levelling sub-sea rock drill anchor Methodology: Working with a leading tidal device developer, deliver the rock drill solution for their deployment 8
Novel Drilled Rock Anchor Mooring Phase 2 Phase 1 Phase 3 9
Turbulence in Marine Environments (TiME) Scope: Develop an improved understanding of turbulence and marine survey methods for tidal flows and turbulence Methodology: Undertake two site surveys using cutting edge technology and software to characterise turbulence 10
Turbulence in Marine Environments (TiME) 11
Integrated Marine Energy Measurement Platform (IMEMP) Scope: Design, build and test of sub-sea measurement platform for operational monitoring of marine devices Methodology: Extensive redesign of prior prototype and eight month test deployment at EMEC 12
Integrated Marine Energy Measurement Platform (IMEMP) 13
CableFish Cable Installation Tool for Tidal Environments Scope: Design, build and test of cable mounted survey system Methodology: Following design/build, two sea trials undertaken to test functionality 14
CableFish Cable Installation Tool for Tidal Environments 15
Thank you for Listening Angus Vantoch-Wood Angus.Vantoch-Wood@CarbonTrust.com Innovation Associate Carbon Trust Marine Innovation Team Forsyth House 93 George Street Edinburgh EH2 3ES Scotland