In 2020 the TIGER project organised a series of six supply chain webinars. The events were developed in collaboration with leading tidal energy developers and other industry experts, in order to open up supply chains and bring new ideas into the development of tidal stream energy.
The summary below details the content of the six events and provides easy access to presentations and video recordings of the sessions.
The video’s contain supply chain procurements and contact details of tidal energy developers, who are open to discuss new solutions with providers. The TIGER project is supporting the development and delivery of six tidal stream projects all at various stages of development.
The six webinars focused on the following themes:
- Subsea cables and connectors
- Tidal energy opportunities for steel manufacturing and supply chain learning
- Growing the supply chain for cost effective reliable composite blades, tooling and sensor design for tidal turbines documents
- Anti-fouling and anti-corrosion requirements of tidal turbines documents
- Reliability & condition monitoring of tidal turbines documents
- Onshore & offshore mobilisation and logistics
Further supply chain and meet the buyer events are planned for 2021. To keep up to date on this and other TIGER activity sign up for project updates here.
Please see below for an overview of the series of webinars, including presenters and topics.
SUB SEA CABLES AND CONNECTORS
- Meygen subsea cables: lessons learnt and future arrays (Fraser Johnson, Meygen O&M Manager)
- Orbital Marine Power’s O2: supply chain engagement (Trevor Walls, Engineering Manager)
- Sabella subsea assets: lessons learnt and future supply chain engagement (Erwann Nicolas, Engineering Manager)
- Synaptec’s platform for electrical protection: subsea asset management monitoring techniques (Tom Morley, Business Development)
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TIDAL ENERGY OPPORTUNITIES FOR STEEL MANUFACTURING AND SUPPLY CHAIN LEARNING
- Orbital Marine Power: Opportunities for steel fabricators in floating tidal energy.
(Mark McCarthy & William Annal, Mechanical and Structural Engineering Manager) - SIMEC Atlantis Energy: AR series volume manufacture: lessons learnt and supply chain engagement (Fraser Johnson, MeyGen O&M Manager)
- Hydroquest: Design optimisation and industrial opportunities (Raphaël Coquet, Tidal Project Director)
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GROWING THE SUPPLY CHAIN FOR COST EFFECTIVE RELIABLE COMPOSITE BLADES, TOOLING AND SENSOR DESIGN FOR TIDAL TURBINES
- Sabella Emerging needs and requirements for seabed arrays (Erwann Nicolas, Engineering Manager)
- Minesto Composite needs in glider design Emerging cross sectoral research on composites, certification and low cost deployment (Bernt Erik Westre, Chief Technical Officer)
- University of Edinburgh Fastblade: Engineering options for new materials technology and accelerated evaluation of turbine blades (Professor Conchur ) Bradaigh & Dr. Jeff Steynor)
- Ifremer Testing composites in harsh saltwater environments (Peter Davies)
- National Composite Centre Lower cost manufacturing techniques for composites and tooling for the tidal sector (Dr. Peter Giddings)
- Bureau Veritas Validation and certification of emerging composite technologies
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ANTI-FOULING AND ANTI-CORROSION REQUIREMENTS OF TIDAL TURBINES
- Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult Impact of surface roughness on tidal turbine blade performance (John Walker, Project Engineer)
- Hydroquest Tidal turbines corrosion resistance strategy for long term deployment and maintenance cost reduction (Raphael Coquet, Tidal Project Director)
- PML Applications Ltd Biofouling prevention in high energy sites (Dr.Tom Vance)
- Institut de la Corrosion Collecting data for cathodic protection in the field of off-shore renewable energy (Charles Leballeur)
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RELIABILITY & CONDITION MONITORING OF TIDAL TURBINES
- Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult Pitch system health monitoring with machine learning algorithm for offshore wind turbines – Hyunjoo Lee, Knowledge lead, Drive Trains
- Meygen Ltd Meygen insight tidal stream condition monitoring (Fraser Johnson, Meygen O&M Manager)
- Hydroquest Reliability from design (Mickael Tournabien, Electrical Engineer)
- Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult Overview of ORE Catapult test facilities for tidal stream technology developers and supply chain (Stephen Robertson, Head of Business Development)
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ONSHORE & OFFSHORE MOBILISATION AND LOGISTICS
- Minesto AB Onshore and Offshore Operations: Opportunities in Tidal Stream Renewables (David Collier, Chief Operating Officer)
- Dublin Offshore Lessons learned from Marine Energy Mobilisation and Deployment (Darren Hayes, Technical Director)
- Sabella Offshore operations for seabed arrays: feedback and emerging needs (Erwann Nicolas, Head of Research and Development)
- James Fisher Mermaid: Marine Ops Weather Risk and Optimisation Software (Adam Leonard-Williams, Marine Operations and Metocean Consultant)
Video containing commercial contact details and presentation slides here.
