TIGER (Tidal Stream Industry Energiser)
Project: TIGER (Tidal Stream Industry Energiser)
Timescale: 2019 – 2023 (47 months)
Funder: Interreg France (Channel) England Programme
Funding: ERDF funding € 29 million / Total project budget € 45. million
Project overview: The TIGER project will demonstrate that tidal stream energy is a maturing industry, capable of achieving an accelerated cost reduction pathway.
The project will build cross-border partnerships to develop new technologies, test and demonstrate up to 8 MW of new tidal capacity at a number of locations around the Channel region, and use the learning from this development to make a stronger, cost-effective case for tidal energy as part of the France/UK energy mix.
The project is the largest ever to be approved not only by the France (Channel) England Programme but by any Interreg programme.
Academic staff
Partners
- Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, Cornwall, UK (Project lead)
- University of Exeter, Cornwall and Devon, UK
- University of Plymouth, Devon, UK
- University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
- Cambrian Offshore South West, Cornwall, UK
- Orbital Marine Power, Edinburgh, UK
- European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), Orkney, UK
- EDF Hydro, Rennes, France
- Normandie Hydroliennes, France
- SEENEOH, Bordeaux, France
- Bretagne Developpement Innovation, France
- Hydroquest, France
- MorbihanHydroEnergies SASU, France
- University of Caen Normandy, France
- University Le Havre Normandy, France
- University Bretagne Sud, France
- Minesto AB, Sweden
- QED Naval, Edinburgh, UK
Published research papers
‘Coupled flow-wave modelling for regional tidal site characterisation in the English Channel.’
Authors: J. Hardwick, I. G. C. Ashton, E. Mackay, H. C. M. Smith & P. R. Thies
‘Laboratory scale tests of a floating tidal turbine.’
Authors: S. Walker, L. Cappietti, I. Simonetti, A. Esposito
‘Marginal and total exceedance probabilities of environmental contours.’
Authors: Ed Mackay, Andreas F. Haselsteiner
‘Probabilistic failure rate model of a tidal turbine pitch system.’
Authors: Fraser J.Ewing, Philipp R.Thies, Jonathan Shek, Claudio Bittencourt Ferreirada
Project website: www.InterregTiger.com
