Potential impacts of wave-powered marine renewable energy installations on marine birds

Resolving issues with environmental impact assessment of marine renewable energy installations

Ilya M. D. Maclean*, Richard Inger, David Benson, Cormac G. Booth, Clare B. Embling, W. James Grecian, Johanna J. Heymans, Kate E. Plummer, Michael Shackshaft, Carol E. Sparling, Ben Wilson, Lucy J. Wright, Gareth Bradbury, Nadja Christen, Brendan J. Godley, Angus C. Jackson, Aly McCluskie, Rachel Nicholls-Lee and Stuart Bearhop 1 Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, ...

Reducing Reliability Uncertainties for Marine Renewable Energy

Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) are a widely used metric of technology maturity and risk for marine renewable energy (MRE) devices. To-date, a large number of device concepts have been proposed which have reached the early validation stages of development (TRLs 1–3). Only a handful of mature designs have attained pre-commercial development status following prototype sea trials (TRLs 7–8). In...

Impacts on Marine Environments

our blue planet, the oceans dominate the earth in a variety of ways. With an average depth of almost 4 km, they provide over 99 percent of the habitable space for life on earth (Woodard 2000:31). As human populations have grown exponentially over the past century, and with 60 percent of the world’s population living within 100 km of the coast, many have looked to the oceans as a source of hope ...

STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF MARINE RENEWABLE ENGERY DEVELOPMENT IN SCOTLAND Collision risks between marine renewable energy devices and mammals, fish and diving birds

Tribological design constraints of marine renewable energy systems.

Against the backdrop of increasing energy demands, the threat of climate change and dwindling fuel reserves, finding reliable, diverse, sustainable/renewable, affordable energy resources has become a priority for many countries. Marine energy conversion systems are at the forefront of providing such a resource. Most marine renewable energy conversion systems require tribological components to c...