INORES brings together a diverse team of experts to focus on and address key open challenges in the offshore renewable energy agenda.
The on-going escalation of climate change-induced catastrophic consequences has urged the Governments of UK, EU countries, and many others, to prioritise a transition to net-zero economy by 2050.
To enable this transition in an environmentally and economically viable (sustainable) manner, renewable energy sources are demanded to be exploited to replace fossil fuels. For the UK and EU, the offshore renewable sources are abundant, including offshore wind, marine waves, and tidal streams. These considerations have brought the offshore renewable energy (ORE) sector to the forefront of research and development (R&D), contributing to ‘green industrial revolution’.
In response to this considerable interest and investment on ORE R&D activities in UK/EU, INORES brings together a diverse team of experts to focus on and address several key open challenges in the ORE agenda, as identified by the UKRI-funded ORE Catapult consortium and ORE Hub.
INORES combines knowledge and expertise for using SST’s world-class and national leading laboratory facilities, including the T2 and T7 wind tunnels and geotechnical centrifuge, enabling experimental research on wind turbine systems and blades, offshore foundations, anchoring and ground settlement. Further, INORES’s expertise in leveraging the powerful SST high-performance computing (HPC) system enables fast numerical simulations and supports the implementation of data-driven, AI and ML tools for ORE development and deployment, as well as the digital twin for ORE systems and farms.
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