Carbon Trust’s Joint Industry Programmes in Offshore Wind

NORWEP - 8th Offshore Wind supply chain conference

Jan Matthiesen

Oslo, 26 April 2017

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Carbon TrustJoint Industry Programmes

OWA Floating Wind ORJIP

Carbon TrustJoint Industry Programmes

OWA Floating Wind ORJIP

Offshore Wind Accelerator

Offshore Wind Accelerator is a Joint Industry Programme to drive down costsObjective: Reduce cost of Energy

› Joint industry project involving 9 developers + Carbon Trust

› The largest and most established innovation programme

› New lower-cost technologies, ready to use

› Simple governance model

› Over £88m total programme spend to date

› Industry has funded >60%

› An industry-led initiative

› Value to government and industry partners

› Great leverage for industry partners (>13x)

› Efficient vehicle for government to accelerate innovation and attract international interest

› Set up 2009 in response to the need to bring down the cost of Offshore WindInvolved in over ¾ of all

operating EU wind farms

Technology push versus Market Pull

• Technology tries to find application

•May not meet customer needs

• Research is close to market and commercially-focused

• Industry involved in the innovation process.

• Technology will meet market needs

• Aligned objectives

OWA approach

Good leverage

• 9 industry partners

• 2/3 industry funding

• 1/3 public funding

• For Common R&D we have a leverage of 1:13.5

• For every £ a partner invest he will get £13.5 of research

Flexible to utilise opportunities

• Funding available when needed

• Annual funding allocated by Government

• No requirement to apply for funding

• This makes it possible to utilise opportunities for testing and demonstration when they arise.

Effective way of learning from each other

• Five working groups for different disciplines

• Steering Committee providing strategic direction.

• Over 60 experts involved

• Open discussions and exchange of information

Industry driven RD&D is what makes the OWA programme a success

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NautiCraft has built an 8m prototype

NautiCraft has built an 8m prototype

North Sea Logistics - Pivoting Deck Vessel

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Pivoting Deck Vessel

11 DP Participants (7 OWA partners)

Kick-off meeting 02 March 2017

Project will broaden the applicability of a new design method for monopiles

Design method becoming an industry standard

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Pile-Soil Analysis - PISA2

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Pile-Soil AnalysisLayered Soils Study

Jacket Connections - JaCo

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Improving fatigue curves for jacket nodes

Full scale fatigue testing of nodes

Focus on robotic welding

6 DP Participants (5 OWA Partners)

DP Steering Committee

JaCo – Project Partners

Project Coordinator

Independent Technical Review Panel (ITRP)

Technical Advisor

DP Technical Committee

Partners &

Main Suppliers

Project Work & Mmt

Carbon TrustJoint Industry Programmes

OWA Floating Wind ORJIP

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What is floating offshore wind?

Semi-submersible

Spar-buoy

Tension leg platform

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First oil drilling 1858

First offshore drilling 1900

Statfjord A - 1980 Asgard B - 2000

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First generating turbine - 1887 First Bonus - 1982 Vindeby - 1991

London Array - 2014

Why floating offshore wind?

Opens new markets Lower cost/risk installation and maintenance

Europe

East Asia

North America

Floating Wind Joint Industry Project: Stage 1

› Three work packages:

1. Policy & regulation: Outlining the policy & regulatory requirements for the floating wind industry

2. Cost sensitivity analysis: Assessment of the current and expected future cost of floating wind, including sensitivity attributed to changing environmental and technical parameters

3. Technology & risk: Assessment of technology risk to develop, construct, and operate a floating wind farm, together with identification of key innovation needs

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Commissioned by: Delivered by:

Floating Wind Joint Industry Project: Stage 2

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Stage 2 participants:

Objective: Overcoming common technical challenges relevant to commercial-scale floating wind farms:

1. Electrical systems: Assessing the unique and novel electrical system challenges for commercial-scale floating wind farms

2. Mooring systems: Evaluating challenges and opportunities for optimisation in mooring and anchoring systems

3. Infrastructure & logistics: Infrastructure requirements and logistical challenges for the construction and maintenance of floating wind farms

Carbon TrustJoint Industry Programmes

OWA Floating Wind ORJIP

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Offshore Renewable Joint Industry Programme (ORJIP)

Challenge: Consent for offshore wind farm construction is high risk

Consenting decisions are based on the risk of environmental impact (sea birds, marine mammals etc.)

Consenting authorities are very cautious due to gaps in scientific knowledge

Solution: ORJIP!

Collaborative joint industry programme funding research projects to better inform consenting authorities on the true environmental risks

Current key research projects:

1. Understanding bird avoidance behaviour within and around a wind farm

2. Understanding the efficacy of devices that deter marine mammals from construction zones

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Bird collision avoidance studyObjective: To improve the evidence base informing bird collision avoidance rates to inform consenting decisions

Approach: Install state of the art monitoring equipment at

Vattenfall’s Thanet Offshore Wind farm to monitor micro, meso and macro bird avoidance behaviours.

Duration: 2.5 years, including 2 years of monitoring, started

March 2014

Benefits:

Empirical evidence to improve collision risk models

Greater certainty on the true risk of bird collisions

Study outcomes accepted by SNCBs

Northern gannet Lesser black-backed gull

Kittiwake

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Acoustic Deterrent Devices StudyObjective: Reduce reliance on passive piling noise mitigation activities and gain acceptance for acoustic deterrent devices

Challenges with current method

– Incomplete coverage of exclusion zone

– Potential to miss diving animals

– Potential to miss animals due to weather and sea surface conditions

Moving to larger & further offshore wind farms – H&S implications cost; sighting conditions likely to be worse

ADD advantages:

– Fewer people, lower cost, less down time and less effect on installation schedules

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Thank you for listening

Jan MatthiesenDirector, Offshore WindJan.matthiesen@CarbonTrust.com

www.carbontrust.com/offshorewind