SUPERGEN WIND ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES-CORE, Towards the Offshore Wind Power Station

Completed

Renewable Energy Sources(Wind Energy)

Basic and strategic applied research

PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Metallurgy and Materials)
PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Applied Mathematics)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (General Engineering and Mineral & Mining Engineering)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering)

Not Cross-cutting

Professor P J Tavner
Engineering
Durham University

Professor SI Hogg
Engineering
Durham University

Standard

EPSRC

23 March 2010

30 September 2014

54 months

£4,834,191

Energy

North East; North East

Energy : Energy

Professor P J Tavner, Engineering, Durham University
Professor SI Hogg, Engineering, Durham University

Dr O Anaya-Lara, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde
Dr M Barnes, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester
Professor A Brown, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester
Professor DM Causon, Computing and Mathematics, Manchester Metropolitan University
Prof I Cotton, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester
Dr A Cruden, Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton
Dr R Dixon, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Loughborough University
Dr AG Dutton, Engineering and Instrumentation, STFC (Science & Technology Facilities Council)
Professor PC Eames, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Loughborough University
Dr P Hancock, Mechanical, Medical, and Aerospace Engineering, University of Surrey
Professor P Hogg, Royal Holloway, University of London
Professor WE Leithead, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde
Professor P McGregor, Economics, University of Strathclyde
Mr C Mingham, Computing and Mathematics, Manchester Metropolitan University
Professor L Ran, School of Engineering, University of Warwick
Professor A Robins, Mechanical, Medical, and Aerospace Engineering, University of Surrey
Professor AC Smith, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester
Professor C Soutis, Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, University of Manchester
Prof S Watson, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Loughborough University

Project Contact, Mott Macdonald UK Ltd
Project Contact, New and Renewable Energy Centre (NaREC)
Project Contact, Siemens plc
Project Contact, EA Technology Limited
Project Contact, E.ON E&P UK Ltd
Project Contact, TNEI Services Limited
Project Contact, Alstom Grid Ltd

The Mission of Supergen Wind 2 is to "undertake research to achieve an integrated, cost-effective, reliable & available Offshore Wind Power Station." This will be done under the four objectives:Reliability;Resource estimation;Scaling up of turbine sizes; and Lifetime costs.The project will have two parallel Initiating Themes during the first two years.The first to deal with research into the physics and engineering of the offshore wind farm.The second to look more specifically at the wind turbine, building upon the lessons of Supergen Wind 1.In the third and fourth years of the project, the results of these two Themes will feed into a third Gathering Theme, which will consider the wind farm as a power station looking at how the power station should be designed, operated and maintained for optimum reliability and what the overall economics will be

05/01/10