Supergen ORE hub 2018

Completed

Renewable Energy Sources(Ocean Energy)
Renewable Energy Sources(Wind Energy)

Basic and strategic applied research

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (General Engineering and Mineral & Mining Engineering)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering)
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES (Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences)

Not Cross-cutting

Prof D Greaves
School of Marine Science and Engineering
University of Plymouth

Standard

EPSRC

01 July 2018

30 June 2023

60 months

£9,193,414

Energy

South West

Energy : Energy

Prof D Greaves, School of Marine Science and Engineering, University of Plymouth

Professor FP Brennan, School of Engineering, Cranfield University
Dr BW Byrne, Engineering Science, University of Oxford
Professor J Gilbert, Engineering, University of Hull
Mr H Jeffrey, Sch of Engineering and Electronics, University of Edinburgh
Dr BE Scott, Inst of Biological and Environmental Sci, University of Aberdeen
Dr TJ Stallard, Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, University of Manchester
Dr PR Thies, Engineering Computer Science and Maths, University of Exeter
Professor DJ White, Sch of Engineering, University of Southampton
Dr RHJ Willden, Engineering Science, University of Oxford
Dr X Zhao, School of Engineering, University of Warwick

Project Contact, Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult
Project Contact, Wave Energy Scotland
Project Contact, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute
Project Contact, Atlantis Operations (UK) Ltd
Project Contact, OpenHydro Group Limited, Ireland
Project Contact, Ove Arup & Partners Ltd
Project Contact, The Carbon Trust
Project Contact, Marine Scotland Science
Project Contact, University of Western Australia
Project Contact, Siemens plc
Project Contact, Green Alliance
Project Contact, RenewableUK
Project Contact, Carnegie Wave Energy Ltd (UK)
Project Contact, Wave Hub
Project Contact, Fugro GeoServices Ltd
Project Contact, Garrad Balfour Ltd.
Project Contact, The Crown Estate
Project Contact, EDF Energy
Project Contact, European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC)
Project Contact, BP International Ltd
Project Contact, Technical University of Denmark
Project Contact, Lloyd's Register EMEA
Project Contact, Atkins

The UK is at the forefront of the development, adoption and export of Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) technologies: offshore wind (OW), wave and tidal energy. To sustain this advantage, the UK must spearhead research and innovation in ORE, which will accelerate its adoption and widen the applicability of these technologies. Many organisations across the industry-academia spectrum contribute to ORE research and development (R&D) co-ordination and the ORE Supergen hub strategy will take a leadership role, integrating with these activities to guide and deliver fundamental research to advance the ORE sector.The role of the Supergen ORE hub is to provide research leadership for the ORE community to enable transformation to future scale ORE. The hub will articulate the vision for the future scale ORE energy landscape, will identify the innovations required and the fundamental research needed to underpin the innovation. It will also generate the pathway for translation of research and innovation into industry practice, for policy adaptation and public awareness in order to support the increased deployment of ORE technologies, reducing energy costs while increasing energy security, reducing CO2 emissions and supporting UK jobs. The hub will work closely with the ORE Catapult (ORECAT) and become well-connected with industry, government, the wider research community in the UK and internationally. It will bring together these groups to assemble the expertise and experience to define and target the innovations, research and actions to achieve the ambitious energy transformation envisioned for the UK.The new Supergen ORE hub will continue to support and build on the existing internationally leading academic capacity within these three research areas (OW, wave and tidal technology), whilst also enabling shared learning on common research challenges. The ORE hub will build a multi-disciplinary, collaborative approach, which will bring benefits through the sharing of best practice and exploitation of synergy, support equality and diversity and the development of the next generation of research leaders.The hub strategy provides an overview of research and innovation priorities, which will be addressed through multiple routes but linked through the hub, with activities designed to stimulate alignment across the research community and industry sectors to maximise engagement with prioritised research challenges through and beyond the hub time-scale. These include:1. Networking and engagement activities to bring the research community together with industry and other stakeholders to ensure research efforts within the community are aligned, complementary and remain inspired by or relevant to industry challenges. This will include support and development of the ECR community to ensure sustainability and promote EDI within the sector as a whole. Actions will also be taken to identify potential cross over research synergies and opportunities for transfer of research between sectors and disciplines, both within and external to ORE. Furthermore, a structured communication plan built around progress of the community towards the sector research challenges will promote exploitation and commercialisation.2. A set of core research work packages addressing priority topics selected and structured to maximize progress towards the sector objectives and building on the cross cutting expertise of the co-director team.3. Targeted use of flexible fund as seed-corn activity leading to projects aligned with, and in partnership with, the hub.

15/02/19