OES Annual Report 2018
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ANNUAL REPORT AN OVERVIEW OF OCEAN ENERGY ACTIVITIES IN ACTIVITIES AN OVERVIEW OF OCEAN ENERGY ANNUAL REPORT AN OVERVIEW OF OCEAN ENERGY ACTIVITIES IN 2018 2018 ANNUAL REPORT AN OVERVIEW OF OCEAN ENERGY ACTIVITIES IN 2018 1 Published by: The Executive Committee of Ocean Energy Systems Edited by: Ana Brito e Melo and Henry Jeffrey Designed by: Formas do Possível - Creative Studio www.formasdopossivel.com COUNTRY REPORTS AUTHOR (S) Australia Republic of Korea Mark Hemer and Tracey Pitman (CSIRO) Jin-Hak Yi (Korea Institute of Ocean Science Stephanie Thornton (Australian Ocean Energy Group) and Technology) Belgium Mexico Vicky Stratigaki (Ghent University) Rodolfo Silva-Casarín (CEMIE Océano) Ludovic Mouffe (Federal Public Service Economy, Directorate-General Energy) Netherlands Jos Reijnders (Netherlands Enterprise Agency) Canada Ghanashyam Ranjitkar (CanmetENERGY-Ottawa, Natural New Zealand Resources Canada) Gareth Gretton (AWATEA and Wellington Institute Sue Molloy (Glas Ocean Engineering) of Technology) China Norway Peng Wei (National Ocean Technology Center) Daniel J. Willoch (NORWEA) Harald Rikheim (Research Council of Norway) Denmark Kim Nielsen (Ramboll) Portugal Ana Brito e Melo (WavEC Offshore Renewables) European Commission António Falcão (Instituto Superior Técnico) Davide Magagna (DG JRC) Matthijs Soede (DG RTD) Singapore Srikanth Narasimalu (Nanyang Technological France University) Yann-Hervé De Roeck (France Energies Marines) Spain Germany Yago Torre-Enciso (BiMEP) Jochen Bard and Fabian Thalemann Jose Luis Villate (TECNALIA) (Fraunhofer IEE) Sweden India Maria Olsson (Swedish Energy Agency) Purnima Jalihal (National Institute of Ocean Technology) UK Ireland Henry Jeffrey (Edinburgh University) Declan Meally and Patricia Comiskey (SEAI) USA Italy David Hume and Ann Dallman (U.S. Department of Energy) Luca Benedetti and Matteo Gianni (Gestore dei Servizi Energetici - GSE) Disclaimer: The Ocean Energy Systems (OES) Technology Collaboration Programme is part of a network of autonomous collaborative partnerships focused on a wide range of energy technologies known as Technology Collaboration Programmes or TCPs. The TCPs are organised under the auspices of the International Energy Agency (IEA), but the TCPs are functionally and legally autonomous. Views, findings and publications of the OES TCP do not necessarily represent the views or policies of the IEA Secretariat or its individual member countries. CONTENTS CHAIRPERSON’S MESSAGE .......................................04 04 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...............................................06 PERFORMANCE METRICS ON OCEAN ENERGY – INTERVIEW .......................... 43 01 OVERVIEW OF OES 05 Vision, Mission and Values ...............................................18 INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES Membership ......................................................................21 ON OCEAN ENERGY Executive Committee ........................................................23 Australia ......................................................................... 48 Work Programme ..............................................................24 Belgium .......................................................................... 52 Canada ........................................................................... 58 China .............................................................................. 65 Denmark ......................................................................... 68 02 European Commission ................................................... 72 ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2018 France ............................................................................ 78 Germany ......................................................................... 82 Collection of Information and Dissemination ..................25 India ............................................................................... 85 Assessment of Environmental Effects and Monitoring Ireland ............................................................................ 87 Efforts................................................................................28 Italy ................................................................................ 93 Worldwide Web Gis Database for Ocean Energy .............31 Mexico ............................................................................ 98 Cost of Energy Assessment for Wave, Tidal and OTEC at an International Level ........................32 Netherlands ................................................................. 101 Wave Energy Converters Modelling New Zealand ................................................................ 104 Verification and Validation ...............................................33 Norway ......................................................................... 105 Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion ..................................35 Portugal........................................................................ 107 Performance Metrics International Republic of Korea ......................................................... 112 Framework for Ocean Energy ...........................................36 Singapore ..................................................................... 115 Tidal Energy Converters Modelling Verification and Validation ...............................................37 Spain ............................................................................ 119 Assessment of Jobs Creation on Ocean Energy ..............38 Sweden ......................................................................... 123 Ocean Energy in Insular Conditions ................................38 UK ................................................................................. 126 Open Water Testing ..........................................................39 USA .............................................................................. 134 03 06 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE APPENDICES ON OCEAN ENERGY - INTERVIEW ..............................40 Appendix 1- Membership Contacts ............................ 141 Appendix 2 - ExCo Meetings ....................................... 143 3 CHAIRPERSON’S MESSAGE MR. HENRY JEFFREY University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom OES Chairperson A warm welcome to the 2018 OES Annual Report and I trust that you will find it informative and useful. I must start this year’s Annual Report with the sad news of the passing of OES former chairman John Huckerby. John Huckerby was nominated the New Zealand’s representative to the OES Executive Committee by the New Zealand Government in 2008. John served as Chair of the OES over 4 years (2009 – 2012). During his mandate John submitted a new 5-year Strategic Plan to the IEA to secure a third 5-year mandate. John not only was responsible for producing a new 5-year Strategic Plan but it overhauled the OES ´brand´, by updating its name, its logo and, its website. John had a strong commitment to make OES “the authoritative voice on ocean energy”. During his chairmanship he introduced a high sense of rigor in the OES activities and always guided the Executive Committee meetings in a very diplomatic and motivational way. He spread the OES all over the world, engaging with other international organizations and conferences promoting ocean energy internationally and will be fondly remembered by many people around the world. For the content of this year’s report, I would like to thank all the member countries for their contributions. The country reports included here convey that 2018 has seen significant progress internationally for ocean energy. Several tidal projects achieved extensive operating hours with multi- GWhs of generation being clocked up globally. Wave energy technology has progressed with a number of large-scale laboratory and offshore tests having been successfully undertaken. Our 2018 feature article is an interview with Jonathan Hodges, Senior Innovation Engineer, of Wave Energy Scotland and Lauren Moraski of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office. Together, they have been leading international collaboration on the development of Stage Gate Metrics for Ocean Energy that will provide a robust and common approach to managing innovation. A further featured article is on the successful ICOE 2018 conference hosted in Cherbourg, France by Amandine Volard, ICOE Conference Manager, including a message from the Linda Church Ciocci, Chair of the ICOE 2020 to be hosted in Washington D.C. Many key achievements for wave and tidal projects are discussed throughout this report with some of my personal highlights below. The US DoE announced funding of $25m to support 12 next-generation marine energy technologies as well as enabling projects. In the UK, Orbital Marine Power concluded testing of their 2MW turbine and successfully raised £7m from 2,300 individual investors for a next generation device. Wave Energy ANNUAL REPORT 2018 Scotland selected 2 devices to go forward to real- sea testing in 2020 with funding of £7.7m. In Europe there was further consolidation around three-bladed horizontal axis tidal turbines with vacant opportunities in France and beyond being actively pursued by other The country reports developers. In the southern hemisphere Australia is re-engaging with wave energy following the opening of included here convey that Albany test site, led by Carnegie Clean Energy. 2018 has seen significant At a policy level ocean energy progresses within a global energy market that is seeing significant change. The progress internationally for