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Four major companies have teamed up with the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult's Joint Industry Project (JIP), which strives to provide key seabed mobility guidelines for the offshore renewable sector.
This initiative now has partners, including National Grid, Orsted, Vattenfall, and BP joining earlier participants RWE, Scottish Power Renewables, ESB, and SSE. The collaboration intends to address seabed mobility challenges, which could have a substantial influence on worldwide planning and sustainability in offshore wind and marine energy development.
Malcolm Stirling, project manager for ORE Catapult, said: "As the offshore wind industry continues its global expansion, ORE Catapult is pleased to report progress on this crucial Joint Industry Project (JIP), where our partners contribute their expertise to understanding the impacts of seabed changes."
"Seabed mobility puts a concern to renewable energy projects such as offshore wind, wave, and tidal. The lack of an established industry strategy for assessing this risk highlights the significance of these guidelines."
The partners aim to develop a unified approach to lead future initiatives, ensuring they are both commercially feasible and ecologically appropriate.
Phil Payne, National Grid's Marine Survey Manager, emphasised the company's important role in linking clean, secure, and cheap energy to the grid, as well as the necessity of collaborative expertise throughout the offshore wind and marine energy project delivery process.
According to ORE Catapult, tidal streams enhance the resilience of the energy system by broadening renewable energy resources, and tidal currents are reliable and foreseeable decades into the future, ensuring a stable power supply during adverse weather and reducing reliance on imported gas or electricity.
ORE Catapult recently wrapped up research with Imperial College London (ICL) that discovered tidal energy has the potential to add 11.5 GW to the UK energy grid, accounting for 11% of total power consumption, and that tidal stream projects might contribute up to £17 billion to the UK economy by 2050.
Read more here- https://ore.catapult.org.uk/press-releases/taskforce-doubles-its-industry-leading-partners-to-progress-new-seabed-change-guidance-for-global-offshore-renewable-installations/
