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Realising the Potential for Renewable Energy

in the Marine Environment


Shared expertise and experience between the UK and
Caribbean
10-11 February 2014
Courtyard by Marriot, Bridgetown, Barbados

Carbon Trust
Laura Fidao, Charlie Blair
Day 1 – Introduction and objectives

› Structure of the workshop and seminar

› Brief round table introduction of all participants

› Agenda

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Day 1 - Agenda

Start End Activity Who


08:00 08:30 Arrival - coffee and registration

Victoria Dean, British High Commissioner in Barbados


Hon Darcy Boyce, Minister with responsibility for
08:30 09:00 Welcome Energy in Barbados

Intro to seminar and objectives Laura Fidao, Carbon Trust


09:00 09:35 Overview of global marine energy and UK role Charlie Blair, Carbon Trust

Opportunities and challenges in the development of marine


09:35 09:55 renewable energy in the Caribbean Joseph Williams, CARICOM
09:55 10:05 Q&A
Panel 1: Policy & Markets
Dr Stephanie Merrie, Renewable Energy Association
10:05 10:25 UK renewable energy policy incentives (REA)
John McGinnes, Scottish Development International
10:25 10:45 Considerations for an effective marine energy industry (SDI)

Understanding environmental impact and developing


10:45 11:05 environmental regulation for site development Gareth Davies, Aquatera
11:05 11:25 Q&A
11:25 11:40 Break

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Day 1 - Agenda

Start End Activity Who


Panel 2: Site development

Site development: lessons learned from European


11:40 12:00 Marine Energy Centre Oliver Wragg, European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC)
12:00 12:20 Grid solutions and renewable energy Lawrence Mott, SgurrEnergy

Small scale wave energy projects in an island


12:20 12:40 community David Findlay, AlbaTERN
12:40 13:00 Q&A
13:00 14:00 Lunch
Workshop 1

How to create the environment for marine renewables


14:00 15:50 investment in the Caribbean Facilitated by Laura Fidao and Charlie Blair, Carbon Trust
Break (during workshop)
15:50 16:00 Feedback & Day 1 closing remarks

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Day 2 - Agenda
Start End Activity Who
08:00 08:30 Arrival – coffee and welcome

08:30 09:00 Introduction to the day and re-cap of Day 1 Laura Fidao & Charlie Blair, Carbon Trust
Panel 3: Technology & supply chain

09:00 09:20 Creating a marine renewables supply chain in an island community Gareth Davies, Aquatera

09:20 09:40 Wave technology, commercialisation journey and financing solutions Max Carcas, Caelulum

09:40 10:00 Use of wave energy converters for desalination in an island setting Bob Tillotson, Seatricity
10:00 10:20 Floating offshore wind in the UK Cathryn Hooper, Source Low Carbon
10:20 10:40 Q&A
10:40 11:00 Break
Panel 4: Caribbean context panel

11:00 11:20 Prospects for marine energy in the Caribbean John McGlynn, Inter-American Development Bank

Caribbean Investment Facility and EDF support for renewables Jannick Vaa, European Union delegation to the
11:20 11:40 projects in the next programme Caribbean
11:40 12:00 Marine governance in the Caribbean Patrick McConney, CERMES
12:00 12:20 Q&A
12:20 13:30 Lunch and networking
Workshop 2
Roadmap for creating an environment for marine renewables
13:30 15:40 investment in the Caribbean Facilitated by Laura Fidao and Charlie Blair, Carbon Trust
Break (during workshop)
15:40 16:00 Closing remarks Angela Francis, FCO
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Marine Energy in the World
- Overview of global marine energy and the UK role

FCO Marine Energy in the Caribbean. February 2014


Charlie Blair, Marine Energy Technology Acceleration Manager
• Global Potential

• Marine Energy Technology


• Wave
• Tidal
• Offshore Wind

• UK Experience to date

Theme: Things the UK has done to enable the industry


– not just technology development

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The Carbon Trust has a 10-year history of
accelerating low carbon businesses
Our mission:
To accelerate the move to a low carbon economy

What we do:
We advise businesses and governments on their opportunities in a sustainable, low carbon
world
We measure and certify the environmental impact of organisations, supply chains and
products
We help develop and deploy low carbon technologies and solutions, from energy efficiency to
renewable power

What we have achieved:


Helped our customers to save £3.7 billion
Helped our customers to save 38m tons of CO2
Catalysed over £300m of investment into clean technologies
We have developed a wealth of experience
over the past ten years
Delivering different solutions for different customers along the innovation journey

Prioritising innovation Designing innovation Delivering innovative


areas initiatives solutions

Example customers:

Confidential: oil
and gas major
Example from OWA: Foundations
Competition – to reduce foundation costs by up to 30% in 30-60m depths.

Shortlist Finalists Stage II focus


Fabrication
Keystone

Airbus
Gifford / BMT / A320
Freyssinet Installation

SPT Offshore
IHC
Demonstration

MBD

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Source: Carbon Trust Offshore Wind Accelerator 2010, IHC
• Global Potential

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There is a LOT of kinetic energy in, and on,
the world’s oceans

› Image: AW ENERGY www

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BUT it’s difficult to work out how much
could be captured

Global estimates vary massively: 10s to


100s of GW capacity for wave.

In any case, it’s a material amount of


energy in relevant coastal and island areas.

› Image: AW ENERGY www

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Marine Energy Resource in the UK
Raw Energy

Wave energy Tidal stream energy

Distribution of wave Distribution of tidal stream


energy around UK energy around UK
Marine Energy Resource in the UK
Extractable Energy

Tidal stream energy

Carbon Trust Estimate: Carbon Trust Estimate:


40-50 TWh/yr Practical Resource 21 TWh/yr Practical Resource
Marine Energy Resource in the UK
Extractable Energy

Total UK accessible resource equivalent to around 20%


of UK Electricity Demand

• ~20 GW
• ~10 – 20 Large power stations
Understanding the size of the prize
allows governments to justify and
target support spend
• Marine Energy Technology
Marine Energy Technologies.

WAVE TIDAL (stream) OFF SHORE WIND

NEAR SHORE /
FAR
OFFSHORE

NEAR SHORE /
AT SHORE /
FLOATING

FLOATING /
BOTTOM
MOUNTED

BOTTOM
MOUNTED /
FIXED /
DYNAMIC
• UK Experience to date
• Understanding resource and leasing
• Environmental consenting
• Technology development
UK – Understanding Resource and Leasing
(Marine Spatial Planning)

Atlas of Ocean Energy (2008).


To be updated soon

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UK – Environmental consenting

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Photos: Tidal Energy Ltd
UK - Technology development

Basic Applied Early demon- Full scale First farms Market


Technology research research stration (~1/3 demon- (Proof of
diffusion
journey scale) stration
(Proof of (Proof of durability) (Proof of
principle) Concept) (Proof of (Proof of value)
viability) scalability)
~£10k ~£100-500k ~£1-3m ~£10-40m ~£40m+

UK is WORLD LEADER

Understanding Accelerating Proving the Demonstrating Facilitating


the challenge cost reduction technology at scale development

Marine Energy Marine Energy Marine Renewables Founding Funder


Marine Renewables
Challenge 2003-2006 Accelerator 2007-2010 Proving Fund Commercialisati since 2005
on Fund 2012-
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Marine Energy in the World
- Overview of global marine energy and the UK role

FCO Marine Energy in the Caribbean. February 2014


Charlie Blair, Marine Energy Technology Acceleration Manager

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