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This project is a building on and adding to our successful Energy Catalyst R8 early-stage project, demonstrating good feasibility of the proposed concepts in enhancing the efficiency of onshore wave energy converters (WECs) and developing advanced wave-powered microgrids (WPMG) in the selected remote islands of Thailand with limited or no grid access whic...

With the pressure to reduce emissions in the maritime industry, there has been an increase in demand over the past years for ports and harbours to provide cold-ironing services so that vessels can stop running their shipboard engines for auxiliary hotel loads when at berth, and in turn reduce emissions. In response to this, numerous solutions for providin...

The Rural Energy Hubs project builds upon decades of experience, joint working and delivering innovative low-carbon projects in Orkney and Shetland. It embraces a place-based demonstration approach to overcoming non-technical barriers to accelerate decarbonisation. Seven work packages integrated across the energy system demonstrate how decarbonisation can...

BAMBOO tackles the barriers for the implementation of a sustainable, large-scale offshore Floating PhotoVoltaics (FPV) system of 1 km2/150 MW, that will act as a blueprint for rollout of offshore FPV projects in Europe, and that is to be implemented in conjunction with the offshore wind leading EU utility-partner. Offshore FPV extends PV potential at enor...

This project (IselAI) brings an exciting artificial intelligence dimension to the successful and live data exchange platform (IsleDEX) built under the PFER funded ReFLEX smart local energy system (SLES) demonstrator project. IsleAI includes the same key players as IsleDEX, namely UrbanTide, Aquatera and EMEC. It will be led by ReFLEX Orkney, the special p...

Since the UK's first grid-connected wind turbine started generating electricity in 1951, Orkney has been a world leading testbed for renewable energy and decarbonisation - pioneering innovative approaches and technologies; and growing a collaborative, expert community of keen early adopters and volunteers for pilots and projects. Featuring leadership and ...

This project, a collaboration between Shetland Islands Council (SIC), Aquatera and Community Energy Scotland (CES), will address the non-technical systemic barriers to implementing rural energy hubs in Shetland. All organisations are partners in the Island Centre for Net Zero (ICNZ), a new 10-year programme that begins summer 2023\. ICNZ creates a pan-isl...

ZEHPHyr1, Zero Emission Hydrogen Powered Hovercraft, is an 8-month feasibility which will de-risk the key barriers to zero-emission hovercraft operations. These barriers include -- operational barriers (socio-economics, crew training, regulations, life cycle impact), technical barriers (hydrogen-based propulsion system) and availability of hydrogen infras...

The coming years will see a significant increase in marine traffic associated with offshore wind development, at the same time as maritime technology will introduce measures to decarbonise with clean fuels and electrification of vessels. A system of Floating Fuel Depots (FFDs) is proposed as a means of facilitating the supply of fuels to this fleet, while...

Archipelagic nations such as the Philippines continue to deal with challenges in electricity provision in remote islands due to the barriers for grid connection. Currently, most of these off-grid communities rely on costly and polluting diesel generators which are unable to provide reliable, affordable and sustainable energy access. Renewable energy techn...

The 'Hydrogen in an Integrated Maritime Energy Transition' (HIMET) project will demonstrate maritime decarbonisation enabling technologies, encompassing the design, development, and demonstration of four solutions: 1.Hydrogen systems and future micro-grid architectures for resilient shore-side power, including testing of a hybrid hydrogen/solar system and...

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