Keynote addressScottish Energy Minister Fergus Ewing kicks off the 6th International Conference on Ocean Energy. The European Commission’s Karmenu Vella sets out the crucial funding mechanisms available to the sector.Pentland, Level 3, 12.45-14.15

MeyGen debut fornew MCT turbine

Scottish lay bets on theTrident PowerPod PTOTrident Energy has scooped £475,000 from Wave Energy Scotland to develop its PowerPod power-take off system for wave devices. p2

Step by step guide to device developmentOffshore Renewable Energy Catapult and the European Marine Energy Centre will today launch a Technology Assessment Process tool for new and developing marine energy technologies. p3

Industry looking to get feet under Hayle tableMarine Offshore Renewables is in talks with Cornwall Council to secure office space at the newly-inaugurated Hayle Marine Renewables Business Park. p4

MEYGEN MANUFACTURING: AR1500 turbine assembly at Nigg in Scotland Photo: Atlantis Resources

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Ocean Energy Forum A chance for delegates to discuss and develop the EC-backed Ocean Energy Forum’s Strategic Roadmap for wave and tidal technology.Menteith, Level -1, 14.45-16.30

Hunting dragonsWhat does it take for an investor to back wave and tidal energy? Wavepower chair Adam Norris plus Atlantis Resources chief executive Tim Cornelius discuss.Lennox Suite, 16.45-17.45

EU Support for Ocean EnergySpeakers from the European Commission set out the key funding streams available for wave and tidal.Pentland, level 3, 09.00–10.00

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Atlantis Resources will deploy next-generation SeaGen tidal technology from Marine Current Turbines at the MeyGen project’s 6MW Phase 1B in the Pentland Firth.

The Edinburgh developer is planning to install four fully-submerged SeaGen U turbines, an evolution of Strangford Lough’s surface-piercing SeaGen S.

The SeaGen U will feature three rotors as opposed to SeaGen S’s two and is designed to operate at water depths of up to 50 metres. The 1.5MW generator will be installed via a seabed platform instead of the earlier device’s monopile-cum-jacket set-up.

The foundations will be based on Atlantis’s StreamTec system. The developer has £10.9m in funding from the Energy Technologies Institute to develop and install the hardware.

Construction of the 6MW phase could start early in 2017 with financial close expected by the end of this year. The project already has €16.8m of funding from the European Commission’s

NER300 programme, which was transferred from the 8MW Kyle Rhea to Phase 1B following the acquisition of MCT from Siemens last year.

The turbine outfit’s engineers have since been integrated into Atlantis’s team in Bristol where the SeaGen U is going through a detailed design and preparation campaign for Phase 1B.

Speaking to renews, Atlantis chief executive Tim Cornelius said its other in-house turbine, the 1.5MW Lockheed Martin-designed AR1500, remains an option for future projects.

“Developers and financiers would like to see as many systems deployed and

operational at reasonable scale as possible,” he said.

Cornelius confirmed that the turbine delivery schedule for MeyGen’s initial 6MW Phase 1A has slipped slightly to the summer. The three Andritz Hammerfest Hydro HS1500 and single AR1500 devices had been expected in the spring.

Andritz is assembling the HS1500s at its Ravensberg factory in Germany. The AR1500 is being fabricated and assembled at Atlantis’s facility at Nigg Energy Park in Scotland.

The company expects to install all four 1.5MW units by the autumn and commission the array by the year-end.

WEDNESDAY

Conference gala dinnerThe industry lets its hair down with a Burns Supper, ceremonial Ode to the Haggis and a ceilidh. Hoots mon!Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, 18.30-late

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This year’s ICOE Conference Dinner is the must-attend social evening of the event. Join fellow delegates for an evening of networking, fine dining, entertainment and a traditional Scottish evening. This is a separate ticketed event to the main conference and exhibition. A limited number of single tickets may be purchased onsite. Please go to the registration desks.Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh

18.30–23.00

SIDE EVENTS:

• Ocean Energy ForumDiscussion SessionsLowther and Menteith, Level -1,

09.00–17.30

• Business PartneringService Atrium, Level 1, 13.30–14.45

• EIMR Side Event Carrick 2, Level 1, 17.00–18.00

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17.45–19.45

SIDE EVENTS:

• Ocean Energy ForumPlenary Sidlaw, Level 3, 09.30–12.00

• Ocean Energy ForumDiscussion Session Menteith, Level -1, 14.45–16.30

• Business PartneringService Atrium, Level 1, 16.15–16.45

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Trident Energy has scooped £475,000 from Wave Energy Scotland to develop its PowerPod power-take off system (PTO) for wave devices.

The Cambridge-based company is lead partner in a 12-month project to optimise its linear generator PTO for a variety of wave energy converters such as point absorbers, oscillating wave surge converters and oscillating water columns.

The unit converts linear motion directly into power without the need for intermediate systems such as gears or hydraulics.

The aim of the project is to improve on Trident’s PowerPod prototype, deployed at its test facility in Lowestoft, and design a full-scale system.

Other partners in the WES Stage 2 effort include Scottish consultancy SgurrEnergy,

THE ONLY WAY IS UP: the PowerPod prototype undergoing tests at NAREC

Photo: Trident Energy

Canada’s West Coast Wave, the University of Edinburgh, Cambridgeshire’s 42 Technologies, the University of Warwick, Glasgow’s Energy Technology Centre and Ireland’s Technology For Ideas.

Trident chief executive Steve Packard said: “We have

assembled a really strong group of industry leaders and academics.

“This project will allow us to dynamically size our PTO to specific wave conditions and tailor it to match the operating envelope of the wave device.”

Trident has set up a technical advisory board to examine how it could design a standard linear generator for a number of different device types.

The board includes Wales’ Marine Power Systems, Inverness developer AWS Ocean Energy, US-based Float Inc and Denmark’s WaveStar.

Packard said Trident would seek Stage 3 funding under WES’s PTO programme to build a full-scale or half-scale PowerPod with a view to testing it in the water next year at an existing offshore installation such as a wind farm.

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IN BRIEFn Isle of Wight developer Sustainable Marine Energy has signed a contract with Schottel Hydro for the supply of 16 tidal turbines. The German manufacturer will deliver the 62kW units to SME’s 1MW project at the European Marine Energy Centre over the next two years.

The array will feature four Plato submerged tidal platforms, each hosting four turbines, following the translocation of an existing 100kW platform featuring two SIT turbines from the Isle of Wight to EMEC. The deal includes the power electrics and the interface management between turbines and platform.

n Plymouth-based wave device developer Witt Energy has appointed James Burnell-Nugent as chairman.

The Devon company is developing a wave energy converter named WITT (Whatever Input to Torsion Transfer), which utilises a ‘3D pendulum’ uni-directional rotation flywheel to drive the transmission system.

n Scotrenewables Tidal Power has completed deployment of its modular anchoring system at EMEC in preparation for the installation of its SR2000 2MW floating tidal turbine.

n EMEC has secured funding under the EU’s OCEANERA-NET initiative to develop a methodology to improve reliability testing for wave and tidal devices. The Reliability in a Sea of Risk project will also include the UK’s Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult and SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden.

n Canadian offshore engineer Allswater has unveiled its next-generation XTidal Instream Platform. The third-generation unit with a capacity of up to 450kW is a modular system designed for remote and community tidal sites.

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Swedish developer Seabased has bagged a follow-on order from Ghanaian utility TC Energy for a second 5MW wave power plant to be installed in the Ada Estuary.

The equipment, based on the company’s next-generation, larger S2.7 wave energy converter design, will be produced at its manufacturing facility in Lysekil.

Power will be exported via the first phase TC Energy project in Ghana. Contract value exceeds $13m.

“We have to commend TC Energy for setting targets for our technology in the African market,” said Seabased chief executive Mats Leijon.

“This order is recognition of our technical solutions development and of our efforts to satisfy our customers’ requirements.”

Ghana utility back for more at Seabased

Xylan coatings prove worth inStromness rough and tumbleOrkney’s European Marine Energy Centre has hailed “remarkable” results being produced by high-performance coatings undergoing tests in Stromness Harbour.

EMEC director Neil Kermode said the Xylan product from US-based manufacturer Whitford would ensure wave and tidal energy devices survive in tough

conditions. The company is assessing marine impacts on coated panels and bolts in Stromness Harbour, which can be seen on the side of the pier at low tide.

Kermode said the site is a good representation of a splash zone as it is intermittently exposed to air and immersed in the sea with the ebb and flow of the tide.

Ireland’s OpenHydro has completed a project funded by Scottish Enterprise to design, build and test a power conversion unit for its open-centre turbine at EMEC.

The £1.8m WATERS project was one of three completed with ScotEnt support, including the £2.4m Tidal Energy Array Cabling Project by Aberdeen’s Jee and Stromness-based Aquatera.

Edinburgh wave outfit Albatern’s £600,000 campaign to build and demonstrate the six-unit WaveNET array off the west coast of Scotland has also been finalised.

Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult and the European Marine Energy Centre will today launch a Technology Assessment Process (TAP) tool for new and developing marine energy technologies.

ORE Catapult will work with Orkney’s EMEC to guide tidal and wave technology developers through a more structured approach to developing hardware from concept to first arrays.

The Blyth-based R&D centre said TAP would allow developers to benchmark technologies and map out a more structured development journey.

This will result in a less expensive, faster and more certain development pathway, ORE Catapult added.

The TAP methodology is designed to assess the development position of technologies and identify key areas of uncertainty.

The tool is then used to track progress and build evidence of performance through a ‘technology passport’ as ideas are validated. The passport places a greater emphasis on testing and de-risking activities to move from one stage of development to the next.

ORE Catapult said visibility

of TAP assessment reports will help developers secure funding from the private and public sector.

Investors and sponsors will benefit from early and ongoing independent review, it said, giving a greater level of confidence in the technology being developed, leading to better informed investment decisions, improved confidence and reduced risk.

ORE Catapult wave and tidal director Simon Cheeseman said TAP would ultimately reduce costs of wave and tidal power to levels comparable with other sources of electricity.

“Only those technologies and innovations that best contribute to reducing costs will ultimately survive in the

market,” he said. “The UK must be at the forefront of introducing a new, more disciplined approach to marine renewables sector technology development. This is the ‘end to end’ technology development regime that TAP provides.”

EMEC client relations manager Eileen Linklater said: “Following TAP will help iron out issues earlier in the design process, so that when technologies are deployed at EMEC they can concentrate on the challenges the offshore environment brings.

“By de-risking technology earlier on, investor confidence will increase which will help marine energy transition towards being a commercial reality.”

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Spanish test site Biscay Marine Energy Platform (Bimep) is to host the sea trials of the Horizon 2020-funded Project OPERA.

An award of €5.74m will fund two years of testing of a floating oscillating water column device developed by Bilbao’s Oceantec Energias Marinas in a project to be overseen by Spanish utility EVE.

The buoy-shaped prototype is five metres in diameter, 40-metres high and weighs around 70 tonnes.

Collected data will be shared with the wave energy sector, said EVE.

Partners include Tecnalia, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Exeter, University College Cork, the Higher Technical Institute of Portugal, the Basque Energy Board, Kymaner, Iberdrola Engineering and Construction, DNV GL and Global Maritime.

HIRING: Wavepower chief executive David Rubie-Todd is expanding the team at the developer’s Glastonbury HQ. The company is in the market now for 15 experienced engineers to be joined this summer by 10 engineering graduates. Wavepower is also taking on five engineering students on a placement and internship scheme. Photo: Wavepower

Marine Offshore Renewables is in talks with Cornwall Council to secure office space at the newly-inaugurated Hayle Marine Renewables Business Park.

MOR, a sub-group within industrial alliance the Cornwall Marine Network, is pondering moving its secretariat from Falmouth to be close to the Wave Hub test site some 16km off the county’s north coast.

Wave Hub management has a five-year lease at the

business park. Cornwall Marine Network chief executive Paul Wickes said it is also in discussions with the council about managing the business park on a day-to-day basis.

In addition the local authority is in talks with an energy storage company and diving outfit about taking industrial space at the 2500 square-metre site, it is understood.

The business park features a two-storey building

OFFICE SPACE: Hayle Business Park Photo: Graham Gaunt Photowork

comprising seven offices and seven light industrial units.

The site, part of the Hayle Enterprise Zone, was built with £11.6m from the European Regional Development Fund, an £8m investment by Cornwall Council plus £4.25m from government departments BIS and DECC.

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