Series overview
The Energy Innovation Emporium 2021 is a webinar series from ETP and Research Innovation Scotland that seeks to inform the global energy community how Scottish R&I can help deliver carbon emission reduction targets, especially around the Paris Agreement's Nationally Determined Contributions, to encourage collaborative activity between Scottish academia and wider parties.
About this webinar
This event will showcase the marine renewable energy (MRE) research being carried out across MASTS and hear the perspectives of MASTS ecological researchers, industry engineers, and a range of international collaborators.
The MRE industry is anticipated to grow as a critical driver to reduce climate change. In many countries, the development of offshore wind and tidal energy industries are seen as a potential component to meeting economy-wide net zero carbon emissions goals; this has led to the proposed installation of wind and tidal turbines in many coastal sites.
Scotland is currently a global leader in terms of MRE and is deploying commercial scale wind farms and tidal turbine arrays. However, there is currently a high level of uncertainty surrounding the nature and extent of interactions between MRE developments and marine wildlife; these uncertainties have posed a key consenting risk around the world.
To support balancing MRE development with the protection of wildlife populations, researchers from the Marine Alliance for Science and Technology Scotland (MASTS) have developed a series of environmental research programmes and have developed new methods to measure wildlife interactions with developments. Key to the success of much of this research has been the successful collaboration between a range of stakeholders with markedly different backgrounds and perspectives. In particular, an understanding of the respective constraints and opportunities experienced by ecologists and engineers has been fundamental to the development of the MRE industry in Scotland.
Speakers
- Dan Hasselman, Science Director at Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy
- Raeanne Miller, Senior Consultant at Aquatera
- Ben Wilson, Associate Director for Science and Research at Scottish Association for Marine Science
- Jared Wilson, Renewables and Energy Programme Manager at Marine Scotland Science
This event is suitable for
This event is suitable for academics and innovators outside Scotland, funders, policy makers and industry/end users.
Event partners
The Energy Innovation Emporium 2021 is brought to you in collaboration with Construction Innovation Scotland, Energy Systems Catapult, Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland, National Manufacturing Institute Scotland, ScotCHEM, Scottish Funding Council, Scottish Government, Scottish Research Partnership In Engineering, Scotland's Rural College, Scottish Universities Life Science Alliance, The Data Lab, Wave Energy Scotland, the University of the West of Scotland and Zero Waste Scotland.