Ore Catapult Development Services Limited

"The United Kingdom has made significant progress towards achieving its commitments under the Climate Change Act to reduce CO2 emissions to 80% of 1990 levels, particularly in the areas of de-carbonising the electricity grid and in the uptake and planning to substantially shift to electric vehicles for short domestic journeys. However, historically the va...

"Offshore wind energy has been instrumental in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and rendering the UK less dependent on imports to cover its energy needs. As such, large investment programmes and favourable legislation have been driving growth in the sector with overall capacity doubling every five years, a trend that is set to continue by 2030. However, ...

UK and EU governments have committed to ensuring 20% of total energy consumption is sourced from renewables by 2020. Diminishing fossil fuel resources and adverse environmental impacts of other sources of energy is driving growth of wind farms, especially offshore wind farms as they deliver better performance per turbine due to better wind conditions and ...

The RECODE project, in collaboration with project partners Tecnalia,Zunibal, Ditrel, WavEC, Smartbay and Cluster, aims to answer the challenge of identifying common components in ocean energy technologies by developing a set of industry-enabling cost effective components, specifically designed for reliable and sustainable delivery of ocean energy. These c...

The Reliability in a Sea of Risk (RiaSoR) Oceanera-net project will establish industry best practice in reliability testing for wave and tidal devices through improved load measurements and verification; standardised design guidelines for marine energy systems, and increased safety in marine energy operations. The goal is to consistently learn from the ph...

The UK is currently leading the offshore wind (OW) market worldwide. There is a clear need for developing new technologies that will help cut our electricity bills whilst building a UK manufacturing industry. Iberdrola has been developing an innovative floating foundation concept, TLPWIND, during the last four years to help reduce the costs of electricity...

To develop cost effective and feasible condition monitoring techniques optimised for wind and tidal turbine nacelle systems, particularly drivetrain and DC-link capacitors.

Currently, HVDC technologies are being developed for the purposes of connecting an offshore wind farm to both the grid network and other wind farms. This is particularly important when considering the long transmission distances that need to be overcome for the planned UK Round 3 offshore wind farms and also longer term projects such as the European Super...

To Develop innovative structural testing methods for the large wind turbine blades, reducing time approving quality and increasing similarity of blade testing to in-service conditions.

Feasibility study for 66kV inter-array collector networks to allow for more cost effective power collection and connection to HVDC transmission links for large remote offshore wind power parks. The industry is currently installing inter-array networks that operate at 33kV, with the non-availability of slim-line switchgear, transformers and wet-type cables...

This project will evaluate the feasibility of transferring existing successful helicopter condition monitoring (CM) technology into the offshore wind turbine industry, in order to improve reliability, enable predictive maintenance, increase operations efficiency, reduce emissions, minimise risk for investors and insurers, and ultimately reduce the Levelis...

To develop condition monitoring techniques for power electronic offshore renewable applications that can be used in operations and maintenance processes to improve operational reliability.