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What is the value to the grid management of deployment of “predictably intermittent” renewable technologies such as tidal energy?

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    Funded by: EPSRC

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    The project investigates the optimal design and operation of TRSs as configurable grid-scale energy storage, providing a better understanding of their potential impacts.

  • Marine energy OptimiSAtion for system securIty enhanCement (MOSAIC)

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    Why might this be relevant?

    The project specifically addresses the value of tidal energy deployment for grid management and provides detailed research and simulations to support its findings.

  • Tidal energy operational and spatial planning optimisation

    The UK, is committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by the year 2050 relative to 1990 levels, and to meeting 15% of its energy from renewable sources by 2020. Research suggests that the combined operation of t...

    Funded by: NERC

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on the optimal spatial planning and operational control of tidal range projects, which is related to the deployment of predictably intermittent renewable technologies such as tidal energy.

  • CoTide - Co-design to deliver Scalable Tidal Stream Energy

    The development of tidal stream energy presents a significant opportunity for the UK with a power generation potential in excess of 6GW nationally, and greater than 150GW globally. Delivering on net-zero and climate chan...

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  • Tidal Stream Energy - Designing for Performance

    The fellowship will provide leadership in tidal stream energy research that will promote cost and risk reduction, through design for increased performance, maintainability and reliability, thus accelerating the realizati...

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  • Development of Very Low Head Tidal Turbine

    Our SMART grant partnership combines Severn Estuary Tidal Bar (SETB) Ltd (who are promoting the economic case for tidal range projects in the Severn Estuary), Jacobs (who have researched and acquired a concept Very Low H...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

  • Techniques for Electric Power Systems with High Penetrations of Renewable Non-Thermal Generation

    The recent EU Directive on renewable energy commits the UK to binding targets for renewable energy. By 2020 the UK must find 15% of its primary energy from renewable sources: these being basic energy forms including natu...

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  • SEASTAR: SUSTAINABLE EUROPEAN SUBSEA TIDAL ARRAY

    In the SEASTAR project, coordinator Nova Innovation (Nova) leads a world-class team to deliver a 4MW array of 16 tidal stream turbines at the EMEC Fall of Warness tidal site in Orkney - the world’s first large tidal farm...

    Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

  • Improving Methods of Characterising Resource, Interactions and Conditions (METRIC)

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  • Unlocking scalable tidal wealth: clean growth for the coastal zone

    The UK has some of the best tidal resources in the world. However, to-date, this predictable, indigenous, clean energy has remained largely untapped, due to the non-commercial cost of tidal energy technology. FMP is deve...

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