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:

• Prof Philipp Thies
• Dr Helen Smith
• Prof Lars Johanning
• Dr Ian Ashton
• Dr Ed Mackay
• Dr Stuart Walker
• Mr Jon Hardwick

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