Partnership for Public Engagement: Facts about Wave and Tidal Energy

公众参与伙伴关系：有关波浪能和潮汐能的事实

• 批准号: EP/I001239/1
• 负责人: David Ingram
• 金额: $ 2.55万
• 依托单位: University of Edinburgh
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2010 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FI001239%2F1
• 关键词: Partnership; Public; Engagement; Facts; about

The United Kingdom is blessed with one of the richest environments for exploitation using marine energy technologies. Over the last six years the SuperGen MARINE programme has been supporting the development of this emerging industrial sector by working on a range problems from the characterisation of the raw resource through to energy conversion technologies to delivery into the distribution grid together with work on the environmental consequences and the potential economic impact of large scale industry. The importance of the industry is recognised by the Department for Energy and Climate Change and the Scottish Government if the UK is to meet it's 2020 and 2050 objectives for renewable energy generation. The last decade, which opened with the installation of the LIMPET wave energy power station on Islay, has seen a considerable advance in tidal and wave energy crowned by the deployment of the SeaGen turbine in Strangford Narrows, the deployment of the world's first array of wave energy converters off the Portuguese coast, and the deployment of the OYSTER wave energy converter at the EMEC test site. UK technology developers have led all these projects. To achieve our ambitious deployment goals building capacity within the sector is critical, while SuperGen MARINE is currently training the next generation of researchers and technology developers this project seeks to enthuse future scientists and engineers to work in the sector and to enable today's young people to understand the issues and contribute to the debate on our future energy generation portfolio.It is critical that the general public, and in particular our future scientists and engineers understand the significant challenges in exploiting the oceans energy resources. Ocean energy has the capacity to provide an important component of a balanced energy portfolio for the UK, but this can only be achieved with* Informed and balanced debate on the benefits and consequences of large-scale deployment.* A dramatic increase in the number of skilled people employed in the sector.These two points are exemplified by; the time taken for, and controversy generated by, the consenting of the Beauly-Denny transmission network upgrade, and the fact that providing 2GW of marine energy generating capacity by 2020 will require manufacturing, installing and commissioning, two marine energy converters each week for the next ten years!Recent announcements of a huge expansion of offshore wind will see a sizeable increase in publicity, focus, training, jobs and opportunities in offshore wind construction, maintenance, planning and design. If marine isn't to be left behind in the rush for offshore wind, we must stimulate interest and capture the interest of young people making career choices now.This project is producing two short, 10 minute, mini-documentaries on wave and tidal energy (aimed at O/A-level and Standard/Higher-grade students) to complement the two mini-documentaries (aimed at the general public) being produced by the European EquiMar project. Once completed the films will be published on a dedicated You-Tube channel, made available on DVD to secondary schools and publicised through the project, SuperGen MARINE and EquiMar websites. They will also be dispersed via Scotland's Glow, a digital intranet for secondary schools, and via Lifelong Learning UK and Careers UK networks to schools in England and Wales. At the end of the project we will organise a public screening of the four films (in Edinburgh) followed by a panel debate ( Marine Energy Question Time ) with a panel drawn from scientists, engineers and developers participating in SuperGen and EquiMar.

联合王国拥有利用海洋能源技术进行开发的最丰富的环境之一。在过去六年中，超级发电机海洋方案一直在支持这一新兴工业部门的发展，致力于解决一系列问题，从原材料的特征到能源转换技术，再到输送到配电网，以及大规模工业的环境后果和潜在经济影响。如果英国要实现2020年和2050年的可再生能源发电目标，能源和气候变化部和苏格兰政府都认识到了该行业的重要性。在过去的十年里，随着在Islay安装了帽状波能发电站，潮汐和波能领域取得了长足的进步，在Strangford Narrow部署了SeaGen涡轮机，在葡萄牙海岸部署了世界上第一个波能转换器阵列，并在EMEC试验场部署了牡蛎波能转换器。所有这些项目都是由英国技术开发商牵头的。为了实现我们雄心勃勃的部署目标，在该领域内建设能力至关重要，而SuperGen Marine目前正在培训下一代研究人员和技术开发人员。该项目旨在激励未来的科学家和工程师在该领域工作，并使当今的年轻人能够理解这些问题，并为我们未来能源组合的辩论做出贡献。公众，特别是我们未来的科学家和工程师了解开发海洋能源资源的重大挑战是至关重要的。海洋能源有能力为英国提供平衡的能源组合的重要组成部分，但这只能通过*就大规模部署的好处和后果进行知情和平衡的辩论才能实现。*该部门雇用的熟练人员数量急剧增加。这两点是例证；同意升级博利-丹尼输电网络所花费的时间和引发的争议，以及到2020年提供2GW海洋能源发电能力将需要在未来十年内每周制造、安装和调试两台海洋能源转换器的事实！最近宣布的海上风电大规模扩张将在海上风电建设、维护、规划和设计方面看到宣传、关注、培训、就业和机会的大幅增加。如果海洋不想在对海上风能的争先恐后中落在后面，我们必须激发人们的兴趣，抓住现在做出职业选择的年轻人的兴趣。该项目正在制作两部关于波浪和潮汐能的小型纪录片(针对O/A级和标准/更高年级的学生)，以补充欧洲EquiMar项目正在制作的两部小型纪录片(针对普通公众)。一旦完成，这些电影将在一个专门的You-Tube频道上发布，以DVD形式提供给中学，并通过该项目、SuperGen海洋和EquiMar网站进行宣传。他们还将通过苏格兰的Glow，一个面向中学的数字内联网，以及通过终身学习英国和职业英国网络传播到英格兰和威尔士的学校。在项目结束时，我们将组织四部电影的公开放映(在爱丁堡)，然后进行小组辩论(海洋能源问题时间)，小组讨论来自参加SuperGen和EquiMar的科学家、工程师和开发人员。