Offshore Renewable Energy Conversion

platforms - Coordination Action

a European coordination action on the combined offshore wind and ocean energy resources, platform technologies and markets

Jochen Bard, project coordinatorHead of Marine EnergyFraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology, Germany. jochen.bard@iwes.fraunofer.de

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ORECCA: shaping the future of offshore renewablesa combined roadmap for offshore wind and ocean energy platforms

Resource: magnitude, characteristics (depth…), constraints, …

Market development: historical and projected

Platform technologies and economics

Supply chain challenges: logistics, vessels, ports, offshore grid…

Synergies

Not covered here: device technology, jobs created, emissions avoided…

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ORECCA: Overview

Definition of 3 target areas

North Sea + Baltic Sea

Atlantic Ocean

Medit. & Black Sea

Definition of 3 stake holder groups

investors and technology providers

research organization, technology developers

(research) policy makers; the EC

204 person month

1.6 MEuro total EC funding

28 Partners in a cross-sectoral approach

USA (NREL), Canada

13 reports and European roadmap for OREC platform deployment

www.orecca.eu

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28 Partners from 10 European countries+ NREL (US) and Waterloo Univ. (Canada)

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ORECCA work package structure

WP1 - Project Management, (Fh IWES)

WP2 – Resource characterisation, environmental impact, financial and legislative framework for the target areas (leader HMRC- Ireland)

WP3– Analysis and benchmark of current technology and industrial state of the art in the sectors of offshore wind, ocean energy and oil and gas (ECN)

WP4 Identification of potential synergies, innovative designs and concepts for the combined use in multipurpose platforms (ERSE - Italy)

WP5 – Development of integrated road maps for the stakeholder groups (UEDIN -UK)

WP6 – Knowledge management and dissemination (FondPoly di Milano - Italy)

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EWEA: Oceans of opportunities (offshore wind report 2009)

Offshore wind in 2020

40.000 MW installed

6900 MW/a deployment

148 TWh/a production

around 4% of EU electricity

around 9 bn €/a investment

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European offshore wind market development:EWEA scenario and “project pipeline”

Cumulated numbers of offshore wind turbines and installed capacities from 2000 to 2020

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Source: DENA, EWEA, 4C Offshore

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Development of the offshore wind market in terms of water depth (m) and distance to shore (km) up to 2025

Water depth / distance to shore of European offshore wind farms up to 2026

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announced floating projects

2nd market phase

German EEZ

UK round3

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EUOEA: European Roadmap

Ocean energy in 2020

3600 MW installed

40000 jobs

around 1% of EU electricity

around 9 bn €uro/a investment

Ocean energy in 2050

188000 MW installed

470000 jobs

around 15% of EU electricity

around 450 bn €uro/a investment

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Ocean Energy Projects “in the pipeline”Cumulated capacity and type of ocean energy converters from 2010 to 2020

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unknown conversion principle

unknown tidal energy conversion

venturi effect

oscillating hydrofoil

vertical axis turbine

horizontal axis turbine

unknown wave energy conversion

submerged pressure differential

overtopping

oscillating wave column

oscillating wave surge

point absorber

attenuator

Pentland Firth, CE Round 1

NREAP EU 27 targets in 2020: 1880 MW, 6 TWh(IR:75, UK: 1300, ES:100, Pt:250, F:140, It:3)

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TripodJacketMonopile

< 25 m

Gravity Foundation

5-15-40 m 20-50 m 20-40 m

Fixed foundations for offshore wind turbines:Improvements, cost reduction… ongoing R&D

Criteria for benchmarking:

Power converter sizeWater depth Soil conditionMaterials &

Surface protectionDesign requirements &

CertificationConstruction Production Transport/LogisticsAssembly/ErectionMaintenance & Repair

OE: TRLs

Wavetreader by Green Ocean Energy

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European Offshore Grid

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Installation: vessels & barges – synergies vs specialisation

Herbosch-Kiere heavy lift crane vessel “Rambiz”self propelled twin hulled, 3000 t crane capacity

Fugro Seacorejackup barge “Deep Diver”

100 t crane capacity, drilling equipment,

monopiles up to 3 m

8 new offshore wind vessels contracted (EWEA)

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Ports: capacity building, local supply chain clusters…

Source: Uk Offshore port study, DECC 2009

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Synergies and combined platforms

Spatial synergies: Sharing the area; maritime spatial planning

Installation and infrastructure commonalities

grid connection

Installation equipment (vessels, jackups, …)

port infrastructure

O&M synergies

Process engineering synergies: hydrogen, desalination, other non-electrical applications

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Synergies and combined platforms

Offshore Renewable Hybrids

Poseidon, Principle Power, W2Power, Wavetreader, Waverotor, Wind –Wavedragon (Eric FM), Seagen W (Wind), Wavestar-Windturbine, OWWE (Norway), Ocean Wave Air piston, Comtank (Otte), Hydro Green Energy, OER (Wind, wave tidal platform) ...

Multipurpose Platform Concepts (“Energy Islands“)

Float Inc., Kema Energy Island (Shallow water), Floating Energy Islands (Michael Schirber), Ocean Power Plant (Tassilo Pflanz), MUFOW (A. Henderson), Langlee Wave/Wind/Oil&Gas, OTEC Energy Island by Dominic and Alex Michaelis ...

Synergy studies

• Wind-Wave offshore IIT Madras• HOTT, HOTCF – Japan • WindWave Hydrogen –Grays Harbor (Burton Hamner) • Wind and wave hybrid, a proven synergy (E. Stoutenburg)• ...

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Offshore supply chain: a bottleneck for the deployment ?

Turbine installation vessels: at least 5 more needed with higher lifting capacity and faster installation procedure (from 2 down to 1.5 @180 d/a)

Similar bottleneck for foundation installation (take foundation on barge?)

Cable and substation installation capacity

Cable supply: few suppliers with long lead times (high prices)

Trained divers and diving equipment

Ports: storage capacity, quay strength, water depth, access, tidal restrictions…

Competition with offshore oil and gas industry (high prices)

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Roadmap content (draft)

Intro (Finance)

Resource Information

Infrastructure

Technology

Regulation Legislation

Environment

key actions and recommendations

targeted to the audience : 3 stake holder groups

timelines (wind and OE) long and short term: when and where

synergies

addressing the 3 target areas where appropriate

includes existing actions

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Coming events

EWEA 2011 side event Brussels: Wednesday 16 March 11:00 to 12:30(go to ORECCA website)

next ORECCA workshop: Milano, 7th-8th June2011

regional focus on Mediterranian Sea (floating wind and ocean energy)

Combined platforms (break out session)

Input to the roadmap

Ocean Energy side event, Brussels, 22—23 June 2011 The 2nd Official Annual Conference of the European Ocean Energy Association (EU-OEA) www.greepowerconferences.com

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