Partnership for Public Engagement: Facts about Wave and Tidal Energy

英国得天独厚地拥有利用海洋能源技术进行开发的最丰富的环境之一。在过去的六年里，SuperGen MARINE项目一直在支持这一新兴工业部门的发展，通过解决一系列问题，从原材料的特征到能源转换技术，再到输送到配电网，同时还研究了大规模工业的环境后果和潜在的经济影响。如果英国要实现2020年和2050年可再生能源发电的目标，能源和气候变化部以及苏格兰政府都认识到该行业的重要性。在过去的十年里，随着LIMPET波浪能发电站在Islay的安装，潮汐和波浪能取得了相当大的进步，在Strangford海峡部署了SeaGen涡轮机，在葡萄牙海岸部署了世界上第一个波浪能转换器阵列，在EMEC测试场地部署了OYSTER波浪能转换器。英国的技术开发人员领导了所有这些项目。为了实现我们雄心勃勃的部署目标，在该领域建立能力至关重要，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，并使今天的年轻人能够理解问题，并为我们未来的能源生产组合的辩论做出贡献。至关重要的是，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的重大挑战。海洋能源有能力为英国提供平衡能源组合的重要组成部分，但这只能通过对大规模部署的好处和后果进行明智和平衡的辩论来实现。*该部门雇用的技术人员数量急剧增加。这两点的例证是：美丹尼输电网络升级的批准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中每周制造、安装和调试两个海洋能源转换器的事实！最近有关海上风电大规模扩张的公告，将大大增加海上风电建设、维护、规划和设计方面的宣传、关注、培训、就业和机会。如果我们不想在海上风电的热潮中落后，我们就必须激发年轻人的兴趣，抓住他们现在做出职业选择的兴趣。本项目将制作两部10分钟的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（针对一般公众）。一旦完成，这些电影将在一个专门的You-Tube频道上发布，并以DVD的形式提供给中学，并通过该项目、SuperGen MARINE和EquiMar网站进行宣传。他们还将通过苏格兰中学的数字内部网Glow，以及通过英国终身学习和英国职业网络向英格兰和威尔士的学校传播。在项目结束时，我们将组织四部电影的公开放映（在爱丁堡），然后是一场小组辩论（海洋能源问题时间），由参与SuperGen和EquiMar的科学家、工程师和开发人员组成的小组参加。

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.