Day 1
09:00 - REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS
09:20 - CHAIR’S WELCOME AND OPENING COMMENTS
09:30 - PRODUCING A COST COMPETITIVE TIDAL ENERGY DEVICE
Jonathan Meason, Chief Technical Officer, Scotrenewables Tidal Power Ltd
• Balancing safety margins against inefficiency of over design
• Sharing the risk of manufacture
• Design for maintenance from concept stage, e.g. floating
09:50 - DESIGNING IN RELIABILITY
Mike Woods, Director, Mike Woods Technical Consultancy
• Why focus on reliability?
• How reliability is managed in sectors parallel to marine energy
• Elements of embedded reliability
• Sharing learning with offshore wind
10:10 - REDUCING RISK IN DRIVE TRAIN DESIGN
Matthias Hoffman, Senior Application Engineer, SKF
• Modular drive train design for horizontal axis tidal turbines focusing on the hub, shaft, gearbox and generator
• Design and dimensioning of rotor bearings comparing different bearing types and arrangements
• Possible bearing housing designs and sealing solutions
• Lubrication concepts and grease flow
• Possibilities and advantages of large size bearing hub units
10:30 - NANO AND OTHER NOVEL APPROACHES IN MARINE ENGINEERING
Richard Moore, Consultant, Biomimesis
• Nanotechnology: where are we 30 years on?
• Can nano contribute towards better performance?
• What are the risk issues and how can we mitigate them?
• Examples of new nanoscale approaches in marine energy applications
10:50 - THE BENEFIT OF ON-GROUND DRIVE TRAIN TEST FOR OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY
Hyunjoo Lee, Knowledge Area Leader, Drive Trains, ORE Catapult
• Introduction of the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult
• Explanation about test facilities for marine renewable energy
• Case study and benefit of on-ground drive train test
11:10 - NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK
11:30 - O&M SUCCESS STORIES AND LESSONS LEARNT
Beth Dickens, Independent Expert
• The evolution of the current O&M strategy and procedures
• Understanding the faults experienced and how they impact future projects
• Developing O&M strategies for the future
11:50 - PROPERLY UNDERSTANDING WEATHER RISK - AN ESSENTIAL FIRST STEP IN THE RISK CONTROL PROCESS
Matt Hodson, Business Development Manager, Mojo Maritime Ltd
• The effect of the weather on operational elements
• Detailed task planning against weather data
• The identification of key bottleneck and schedule delay drivers
• Testing risk control measures
12:10 - MANAGING METOCEAN RISK
Francis Colledge, Scientific Consultant, Met Office
• Brief introduction to the Met Office
• Weather challenges to the Tidal Energy Industry
• Background to marine support - modelling techniques, accuracy, research and development
• The support available for planning and real-time routine operations and maintenance
• The importance of metocean data - throughout the lifetime of the project
12:30 - LESSONS FROM NATURE’S LABORATORY: MARINE SCOUR AND FUTURE CHALLENGES
John Harris, Principal Engineer, Coast and Estuaries Group, HR Wallingford
• Gaining a better understanding of scour development as well as scouring within non-uniform marine soils
• Developing better methods for measuring and collecting data in the field combining both the change in seabed level with corresponding hydrodynamic conditions
• Enabling the design of more efficient and cost effective foundations and associated infrastructure
12:50 - ASSESSING RISK AND INTELLIGENT RISK MITIGATION FOR TIDAL TURBINE OPERATION
Paul Chesman, R&D Programme Manager, ReDAPT and Oceade, Alstom Ocean Energy
• Methods of assessing risk on Tidal Turbine designs and Marine Operations
• Failure mode identification
• Contingency planning to mitigate risk
• The result of the planning process
13:30 - NETWORKING LUNCH
14:30 - PROJECT DEVELOPER PERSPECTIVE
David Collier, Meygen
14:50 - PLANNING RISKS FOR MARINE ENERGY PROJECTS
Andrew Scott, Independent Expert
• Necessary consents and licenses
• Site selection
• Development risk
• Project programming
15:10 - DEVELOPING BEST PRACTICE IN UNCERTAINTY ASSESSMENT FOR WAVE AND TIDAL ENERGY PROJECTS
Neil Adams, Group Leader, Frazer-Nash Consultancy Ltd
• Understanding the risks associated with marine energy projects
• Examining the Marine Farm Accelerator programme and its outcomes
• Configuring resource assessment campaigns to minimise the resulting energy yield uncertainty
15:30 - NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK
15:50 - CONTRACTS
Rob McNabb, Eversheds
16:00 - STANDARDS FOR THE MARINE RENEWABLES SECTOR
Claudio Bittencourt, Business Development Director, DNV GL Renewables Certification - Wave and Tidal
• The standards and risk management
• The importance of standards
• Overview of standards available to Marine Renewables Sector
• Ongoing work
16:20 - CERTIFICATION FOR THE MARINE RENEWABLES INDUSTRY
Rebecca Sykes, Lloyds Register
• What certification is and why is it common in established industries
• Different types of certification and how they are relevant to OEMs, project and component developers in the marine renewables industry
• Explanation of the philosophy behind certification and shown how it will influence the steps through certification
• Developments being made at an international level under the IEC for all renewables certification; description of progress in this work together with anticipated time frames
16:40 - MANAGING RISKS AND CONTRACTS FOR OFFSHORE WIND PROJECTS
Confirmed Senior Representative, RES Offshore
• The risks in offshore wind: what affects confidence levels; assessment and mitigation of risks
• Common contractual structures: how these can be set up and managed effectively
• Lessons learned and looking to the future: further improvement & de-risking of offshore wind projects;moving beyond risk apportionment to reduction of overall risk and cost
17:00 - CASE-STUDY: CONTRACTS FOR MARINE ENERGY PROJECTS
Confirmed Senior Representative, Eversheds
17:20 - CHAIR’S CLOSING REMARKS