Future scenarios and power generation of marine energy deployment around Great Britain

Conference item

Renewable energy from wave energy converters and tidal stream turbines could play an important role in the future power system of Great Britain. However, scenarios of future deployment are highly uncertain and rarely spatially or temporally detailed enough to be used as suitable inputs to power system models. This paper presents a new resource for power system modellers which combines published projections for wave and tidal stream installed capacities with discrete geospatial coordinates of potential deployment sites from the literature to develop 'build scenarios' of future deployment around GB. Three build scenarios (low, intermediate and high) are presented for both wave and tidal stream generation. These scenarios can be used by power system modellers to analyse the contributions of marine energy to the future power system of Great Britain.

Authors: Struthers, IA; Harrison, GP; Coles, D; Angeloudis, A; Thomson, RC

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Institution of Engineering and Technology
• Host title: 11th International Conference on Renewable Power Generation - Meeting net zero carbon (RPG 2022)
• Volume: 2022
• Issue: 11
• Pages: 223-227
• Series: IET Conference Proceedings
• Publication date: 2022-10-14
• Event title: 11th International Conference on Renewable Power Generation - Meeting net zero carbon (RPG 2022)
• Event location: London, UK
• Event website: https://panay1ot1s.com/2021/08/20/cfp-2022-iet-rpg/
• Event start date: 2022-09-22
• Event end date: 2022-09-23
• DOI: 10.1049/icp.2022.1831
• EISSN: 2732-4494
• EISBN: 9781839537899
• Language: English