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Building on Ireland’s
energy research Research Wave
performance
Geothermal
Transport
Wind
Tidal
Biomass
Development
Grid
Efficiencies
Solar
Biomass
Contents
Ministerial Foreword - Alex White TD 4 3
BUILDING ON IRISH ENERGY RESEARCH PERFORMANCE
Introduction - Dr. Brian Motherway 6
Case Studies
Dibanet 8
Cores 10
Tides 12
KAP 14
Dema 16
Cooperate 18
Buildsmart 20
Campus 21 22
Green eMotion 24
RealValue 26
Entrust 28
Exergyn 30
Marinet 32
Impress 34
Maccsol 36
Marina 38
The Horizon 2020 Programme 40
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Ministerial
Foreword
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EU research and development investment
contributes significantly to the success of
Irish businesses and academia. Attracting
this investment enhances Ireland’s
performance in research and innovation
while delivering economic benefits and
job creation.
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BUILDING ON IRISH ENERGY RESEARCH PERFORMANCE
Mr. Alex White TD
Minister for Communication, Energy and Natural Resources
We are committed to the development of Energy research is one of our strengths.
a first-class research ecosystem in Ireland Organisations such as the Sustainable Energy
and are working hard to deliver an economic Authority of Ireland (SEAI) are assisting Irish
return for the Government’s investment businesses and scientists in the creation
in science, research and technology. That of new technologies, innovative products
return can only be achieved by identifying and services that can be scaled up for
key areas of opportunity, and by mobilising mass deployment and commercialisation.
and engaging our excellent energy research We will continue to play to our strengths
expertise across our academic and industrial and, in particular, we are ensuring that the
research community. This is a challenging focus on marine technology, smart grid,
but exciting time for us all. As we embark smart cities and bioenergy is maintained.
on Horizon 2020, we strive to achieve This publication is about highlighting the
research excellence and foster collaboration quality and variety of Ireland’s international
and productive partnerships between our successes in these and other energy research
businesses and academic institutions. areas as we aim to maximise our energy
research endeavours under Horizon 2020.
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Introduction
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The Irish energy research community
is reaping the rewards from active
participation in EU research programmes
while addressing some of the main
challenges facing the energy system.
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BUILDING ON IRISH ENERGY RESEARCH PERFORMANCE
Dr. Brian Motherway
Chief Executive, SEAI
Irish businesses and research institutions As these projects show, energy research is
have shown considerable success in securing truly collaborative – involving partnerships
EU funding to address energy challenges between Ireland’s higher education
such as increasingly scarce resources, institutions, multinational companies and
growing energy needs and climate change. SMEs - and multidisciplinary - including ICT,
A number of exemplar Irish projects are materials, transport and building sectors.
show-cased here illustrating the diversity
Participation in these projects demonstrates
of Irish participation in EU research which
the important role that EU research and
ranges from ocean energy systems to
development investment plays in creating
concentrated solar power to integrated
a vibrant national research environment.
design and community engagement.
We are also reaping other benefits from
This research and innovation has been this investment including job creation and
enabled through the EU research programmes the potential development of value-added
and most recently Horizon 2020. Under products and services for the global market.
Horizon 2020, a budget of nearly €6 billion SEAI will continue to work with all relevant
has been allocated to energy research for Government Departments, Agencies and
the period 2014-2020 and Irish researchers research institutions to build on these
are seeking to leverage maximum funding successes and bring these benefits to Ireland.
from this potential investment.
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DIBANET
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Biofuels are an important alternative to fossil DIBANET is an Irish-led research
fuels that can minimise the impact of energy
production on global climate change. This project aimed at developing an
project aims at developing technologies to integrated approach to biomass
sustainably exploit biomass for the profitable
production of biofuels and other valuable development that further enhances
chemicals. international cooperation between
The project supports the development the EU and Latin America in the field
of technologies with a view to reducing of biofuels.
dependency on fossil diesel imports in Latin
America and Europe. The focus is on creating
The achievements made in the project have
sustainable biofuels from waste through the
led to the University of Limerick becoming
production of a diesel-miscible biofuel from
a globally renowned player in the field of
organic wastes and residues.
chemical hydrolysis and to the formation of
Unlike many other biofuel technologies the an Irish spin-out company, Celignis, which has
DIBANET process is non-biological and instead commercialised DIBANET’s advances in rapid
uses acid hydrolysis as a means of processing biomass characterisation methods.
biomass for the production of a diesel-miscible
biofuel. This chemical process means that a
much wider variety of biomass types can be
utilised, with a particular focus on the organic
wastes and residues of Europe and Latin
America.
Coordinator: University of Limerick
Project budget: €4,818,198
www.dibanet.org
Other project participants: Aston University, United Kingdom / CERTH – Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece FOSS,
Denmark / Geonardo Ltd, Hungary / CTC – Centro de Tecnologia Canavieira (Sugarcane Technology Centre), Brazil
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / University of Buenos Aires, Argentina / YPF, Argentina / EMBRAPA Solos (National Centre
of Soil Research), Brazil / Fundación Chile, Chile / State University of Campinas, Brazil / Petrobras, Brazil .
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University of Limerick
Dan Hayes
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Ray Alcorn
UCC MaREI11
CORES
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Wave energy convertors are at an early Components were tested for three months on
stage of development. This project aims at a floating test platform at sea at the Galway
supporting the evolution of wave power to Bay Intermediate Wave Energy Test Site
commercial viability by developing floating to evaluate the effect of changes made in
devices that can be used for deeper water, device components on performance and cost-
farther offshore than fixed shoreline wave effectiveness.
energy convertors.
CORES scientists successfully developed
CORES brings together Irish academics and new and improved mooring design methods
industry leaders to address the challenges for better device performance and reduced
of developing next-generation wave energy project costs. These achievements will
converters. This technology is evolving from accelerate development on the path towards
fixed to floating devices in deeper water, fully commercial devices.
farther offshore. The project will aid progress
towards full commercial realisation and mass
production.
CORES is an Irish-led, European
collaborative research project
The project concentrates on the development
of new concepts and components for power focusing on new components and
take-off, control, moorings, risers, data concepts for ocean energy convertors.
acquisition and instrumentation based on
floating oscillating water column systems.
Coordinator: University College Cork (UCC)
Project budget: €4,520,403
www.fp7-cores.eu
Other project participants: Marine Computation Services Ltd, Ireland / Ocean Energy, Ireland / University of Limerick, Ireland
Queen’s University, Northern Ireland / Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal / University of Exeter, United Kingdom / Aalborg
University, Denmark / Fundación Tecnalia Research & Innovation, Spain / Bologna University, Italy / Kymaner – Tecnologias
Energéticas, Lda., Portugal / Centro de Energia das Ondas (Wave Energy Centre), Portugal / Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung
der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Fraunhofer Society for the advancement of applied research), Germany.12
TIDES
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A full tidal energy array has not been installed The project will prove the energy
commercially anywhere in the world to date. conversion potential of a tidal array in a
The initial arrays will be living laboratories real sea environment while developing viable
for the burgeoning tidal energy sector. In financial models to support commercial
order to move this nascent technology into exploitation.
the commercial arena and expedite market
The TIDES project will deliver one of the
deployment, it is necessary to establish a
first operating tidal energy farms. It will
limited array of turbines in one site to verify
be located 2 km off the coast of Antrim
the performance capability and environmental
in Northern Ireland.
characteristics of a full array.
TIDES will identify potential future energy
cost-reduction techniques, including
innovative installation methodologies,
while taking the risk out of tidal energy
projects and making them more bankable.
The TIDES project is an Irish-led demonstration project that
seeks to deploy one of the first tidal energy arrays in the world.
The project will have a major impact on the sector by proving
the technology in a real sea environment. The project will gather
invaluable data on environmental impacts, survivability and
reliability. Ultimately the first arrays in the water will enable
developers and investors to make critical investment decisions
based on the Levelised Cost of Energy (LCOE).
Coordinator: DP Energy Ireland
Project budget: €13,002,362
www.fairheadtidal.com
Other project participants: Marine Current Turbines Ltd, United Kingdom / DEME Blue Energy, Belgium / University College Cork,
Ireland / Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden / University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom / The Scottish Association for Marine
Science, United Kingdom.BUILDING ON IRISH ENERGY RESEARCH PERFORMANCE
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Clodagh McGrath
DP Energy14
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Conor Upton
Intel Labs Europe15
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KAP
Manufacturing is the driving force of Europe's The KAP project targets the delivery
economy, providing over € 6 ,553 billion in GDP.
Modern manufacturing must encompass a of energy-management standards
focus on eco-efficiency without the need for and a technology framework for
large capital expenditure.
next-generation sustainable
The KAP project has developed sustainability
strategies and technologies that harness
manufacturing that focuses on
real-time analytics and advanced optimisation the effective coordination of man,
techniques. Intel focused their research on
achieving seamless collaboration between
machine, material and method.
human and automated agents, working as
Project prototypes were piloted with industrial
a Joint Cognitive System to solve complex
partners and demonstrated energy savings
problems. With their research partners
of up to 15 %. The project also developed
they developed an interactive visualisation
and published a wide range of sustainable
that supports the application of artificial
manufacturing standards
intelligence techniques to production planning
and practices.
without the need for end-user programming.
Coordinator: SAP, Germany, with Irish partner
Project budget: €12,577,819
Supported under: Factories of the Future
Public–Private Partnership (PPP)
www.kap-project.eu
Other project participants: SAP / ATOS / Microsoft / De Montford University / Infineon / Intel / University of Patras
Missler / Optimitive / Tecnalia / Technische Universität Berlin / University of Trento & Volvo.16
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Con Shehan
University of Limerick17
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DEMA
Biofuels have the potential to significantly DEMA will deliver an economic and
reduce the output of carbon caused by energy-efficient production of biofuels
transport, and reduce the impact of transport at a dramatically reduced capital
on climate change. DEMA is focusing on and operational expenditure.
microalgae found in oceans, lakes and damp
The DEMA bioethanol project provides a
soil, and on rocks, where energy is extracted
future replacement to terrestrial biomass-
via photosynthesis to produce biofuels.
derived ethanol and will reduce the
The DEMA project will carry out research carbon footprint of EU transport needs.
and development on the complete
biofuel-production process at two DEMA is an Irish-led project focusing
levels: the transformation of CO2 , H2O on the development, demonstration
and sunlight into bioethanol and the
subsequent extraction of bioethanol. and licensing of a complete,
economically competitive technology
for the direct production of bioethanol
from microalgae by 2016.
Coordinator: University of Limerick
Project budget: €4,818,198
http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/106280_en.html
Other project participants: A4F - AlgaFuel, S.A., Portugal / University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands / University of Cambridge,
United Kingdom / University of Turku, Finland / Photanol BV, The Netherlands / Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia, I.P.
(National Laboratory of Energy and Geology), Portugal / Ercane, France / Pervatech BV, The Netherlands / Imperial College of Science,
Technology and Medicine, United Kingdom.18
COOPERATE
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Buildings are responsible for 40 % of energy COOPERATE will optimise the use of energy
consumption and 36 % of EU CO2 emissions, by integrating renewable energy sources and
while the transportation sector is responsible connecting them to the electricity distribution
for about 30 % of EU CO2 emissions. Improving grid.
the energy performance of neighbourhoods,
COOPERATE will develop management and
including buildings, transportation systems
control systems and decision-support systems,
and other supporting systems, is key to
addressing the dynamics of energy supply and
achieving the EU's climate and energy
demand in neighbourhoods.
objectives.
COOPERATE will develop an open, scalable
neighbourhood service and management platform
that integrates local monitoring and control functions
with a cloud based service platform for the delivery of
innovative energy-management, security and other
services in order to progress towards energy-positive
neighbourhoods and achieving 2020 targets.
Coordinator: Aachen University, Germany, with three Irish partners: The Nimbus Centre at
Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland / United Technologies Research Centre, Ireland / Intel
Research and Innovation Ireland, Ireland
Project budget: €5,837,798
Supported under: EEB-ICT
www.cooperate-fp7.eu/
Other project participants: United Technologies Research Centre, Ireland / Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland
Intel Research and Innovation Ireland, Ireland / Bouygues Energies & Services, France / EMBIX, France
University of Manchester, United Kingdom.19
BUILDING ON IRISH ENERGY RESEARCH PERFORMANCE
Martin Klepal
Nimbus Centre, Cork
Institute of Technology20
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Verena Brennan John Ryan
Codema Dublin City Council21
BUILDING ON IRISH ENERGY RESEARCH PERFORMANCE
BUILDSMART
BUILDSMART involves a large-scale The project focuses on residential
demonstration and mainstreaming of
innovative and cost-effective techniques and and non-residential new buildings
methods for constructing very low energy in Sweden, Ireland and Spain.
buildings in various climates.
Attention is placed on the development
BUILDSMART showcases and deploys a
number of innovative techniques, including
of new forms of incentives to increase
energy-efficient building envelopes with high the involvement of the inhabitants so
air tightness and low energy loss, techniques
for minimising the need for cooling, such as
that they can benefit from lower energy
efficient windows and shading equipment, costs and a better environment.
and optimising energy use and reducing peak
loads for both heating and cooling.
Coordinator: Malmö Municipality, Sweden, with two Irish partners: Dublin City Council and Codema
Project budget: €8,612,311
www.buildsmart-energy.eu/index.html
Other project participants: The City of Malmö / WSP / NCC / Ikano / IVL / Skanska / PEAB / Roth Fastigheter AB
Dublin City Council / Codema / Tecnalia / The Region of Basque / FCC.22
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Karsten Menzel
University College Cork23
CAMPUS 21
BUILDING ON IRISH ENERGY RESEARCH PERFORMANCE
Campus21 addresses the need for ICT CAMPUS 21 develops, deploys, and tests
integration strategies in building and a hardware –software platform for the
neighbourhood energy-management systems. integration of existing ICT subsystems
It uses existing demonstrations and living supporting energy, building, and security
laboratories as a nucleus for up-scaling systems management.
and expanding the project scope from
single-building to campus scale. CAMPUS 21 is an Irish-led
The key technological innovations of (UCC) project that focuses on the
Campus21 include: the integration of energy-efficient operation of public
concepts for energy-management systems,
methodologies for the intelligent, optimised buildings and spaces and brings
control of building-services systems, and together the expertise of national
algorithms and tools to support load-
balancing between renewable micro- research centres from Germany,
generation devices, storage systems, and Ireland, Austria and Spain.
energy consuming devices in buildings and
public spaces.
Coordinator: University College Cork
Project budget: €3,762,283
Supported under ICT-Energy
www.campus21-project.eu/index.php/en/
Other project participants: Electricity Supply Board, Ireland / United Technologies Research Centre, Ireland / Vienna University of
Technology, Austria / HSG Zander GmbH, Germany / Fundación CARTIF, Spain / Ayuntamiento de Valladolid (Valladolid City Council),
Spain / Koninklijke BAM Groep nv, The Netherlands / NEC Europe Ltd, United Kingdom.GREEN
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eMOTION
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GREEN eMOTION is a joint effort for electromobility that consists
of 43 partners from industry, the energy sector, electric vehicle
manufacturers, and municipalities as well as universities and
research institutions.
The GREEN eMOTION project is part of Green eMotion will connect ten ongoing
the European Green Cars Initiative (EGCI), regional and national electromobility
launched within the context of the European initiatives, utilising smart grid development,
Recovery Plan, to support the research and innovative ICT solutions, and different types
development of road-transport solutions that of electric vehicles (EV). It will compare the
have the potential to achieve sustainable different technology approaches to ensure
results in the use of renewable and non- that the best solutions prevail for the EU single
polluting energy sources. market.
Major players from industry, the energy By proving efficient and user-friendly solutions
sector, municipalities as well as universities that are also profitable for businesses,
and research institutions have joined forces to Green eMotion will prepare the foundation
enable a mass deployment of electromobility for the mass deployment of Europe-wide
in Europe. electromobility.
The Green eMotion project will define
Europe-wide standards and contribute to
the improvement and development of new
and existing standards for electromobility
interfaces. Policy makers, urban planners and
electric utilities will receive a reference model
for a sustainable rollout
of electromobility in Europe.
Coordinator: Siemens AG, Germany, with Irish partners: ESB and Trinity College Dublin
Project budget: €42,308,930
Supported under: GC.SST.2010.7-8. - Green Cars
- Integrated EU demonstration project on electromobility
www.greenemotion-project.eu
Other project participants: Alstom, Bosch, IBM, SAP, Siemens, Dansk Energy, EDF, Endesa, Enel, Electricity Supply Board (ESB), Eur-
electric, Iberdrola, RWE, Verbund, BMW, Daimler, Nissan, Renault, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Greenabout, City of Copenhagen, City of
Cork, Codema, Ayuntamiento de Malaga, Malmo stad, Roma Capitale, Centro Tecnológico CARTIF, Cidaut foundation, Centro di Ricerca
per il transport e la logistica, DLR, Technical University of Denmark, Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands, Imperial College London,
IREC, RSE, Trinity College Dublin, Tecnalia, TNO, Danish Technological Institute, FKA, TUV Nord.25
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Senan McGrath
ESB
Gareth Davis
ESB26
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Liam Ó’Riain
SSE AirtricityREAL
VALUE
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The RealValue project will physically trial and
demonstrate the use of small scale storage
units in 1250 homes, 800 of which will be in
Ireland. Glen Dimplex’s storage solution,
Quantum, will be linked to energy providers
via highly-advanced technology, developed by
Intel. It considers other storage technologies
and energy vectors, including the integration
with district heating and micro-generation
technologies.
The demonstration of local small- The RealValue project will enable
scale Smart Electric Thermal Storage, Ireland to lead the way in integrating
optimised with advanced ICT, has the small scale storage, at individual house
potential to bring benefits to market level, that has the potential to deliver
participants throughout the EU. By real consumer benefit in the future
replacing traditional storage heaters, as well as enabling more renewable
the energy system combines efficient, energy to be produced.
high-performance electric space and
RealValue is an Irish led small scale
water heating with thermal energy
storage project involving indigenous
storage capability.
Irish private and public sector
The RealValue project will interpret enterprises across the energy supply
data to forecast heat demand and chain including Glen Dimplex, SSE
consumer comfort preferences, and it Airtricity, EirGrid and ESB Networks
will interact with the grid to manage working with Intel and the Electricity
supply and congestion. It is designed Research Centre at University College
to accelerate innovation and develop Dublin.
business models necessary for small-
scale storage, allowing it to form an
integral part of the future EU energy
landscape.
Coordinator: Glen Dimplex
EU contribution: €1, 671, 257, 01
http://www.glendimplex.com/
The consortium includes participants from Ireland, Germany, Finland , Latvia, and the
United Kingdom.They include technology developers (Glen Dimplex, Intel); energy system
modelling specialists (UCD, DIW, RTU); energy market specialists (VTT);
socio-economic experts (Oxford University); electricity network operators (ESBN, EirGrid) Rowena McCappin
and energy utilities (MVV, SSE). Glen DimplexNiall Dunphy
UCC
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ENTRUST
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Energy System Transition Through Stakeholder
Activation, Education and Skills Development
Enhanced societal engagement can ENTRUST will deliver a suite of innovative
successfully deliver energy policy in Europe transition pathways and community
and enable the transition to sustainable engagement tools designed to stimulate
energy systems. Within the ENTRUST Project, dialogue and breakdown barriers to behaviour
5 very different communities will be invited to change and the adoption new technologies.
be co-designers of their own energy transition.
The consortium will work with communities
The project will analyse energy-related to transform their energy behaviours, and will
behaviour & attitudes towards energy generate innovative transition pathways and
technologies, which will assess how multiple business models capable of being replicated
identities and social positions, combine to elsewhere in Europe.
shape practices.
Energy citizenship is a key goal of ENTRUST as
The ENTRUST project provides a mapping of individuals overcome barriers of gender, age
Europe’s energy system (key actors & their and socio-economic status to become active
intersections, technologies, markets, policies, participants in their own energy transitions.
innovations) and attempt to understand how
human behaviour around energy is shaped
by both technological systems and socio-
demographic factors.
Coordinator; University College Cork
Project Budget: €3,476,394
www.entrust-h2020.eu
Other project participants: Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom / LGI Consulting Sarl, France / Redinn S.r.l., Italy /
Integrated Environmental Solutions Ltd., United Kingdom / Energy Smart Energy Solutions SL, Spain / Stam S.r.l., Italy30
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Kevin O’Toole
Exergyn31
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EXERGYN
The amount of waste heat produced EXERGYN has developed an engine
worldwide every year is equivalent to 12 years
of electricity consumption in the EU. There are that runs on hot water that converts
more than 7,000 biogas sites mapped across low-grade waste heat to mechanical or
Europe that makes no use of their waste
heat and receives high feed-in tariffs for its
electrical power. This project will allow
electricity. EXERGYN to become internationally
Low-grade waste heat is defined as water of protected against competitors (via its32
MARINET
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MARINET is a research infrastructure project, led by UCC, that
comprises a network of research centres and organisations
working together to accelerate the development and commercial
deployment of these technologies.
The project includes small models through to prototype scales
from laboratory through to open sea tests, allowing access for
researchers and developers into facilities that are not universally
available in Europe.
Offshore Renewable Conversion systems Companies and research groups are provided
are mostly at the pre-commercial stage of with free access to facilities to test devices
development and comprise wave energy and at any scale in areas such as wave energy,
tidal stream converters as well as offshore tidal energy, offshore-wind energy and
wind turbines for electrical generation. These environmental data or to conduct tests in
devices require research infrastructures to cross-cutting common areas such as power
facilitate and catalyse commercialisation. take-off systems, grid integration, materials or
moorings.
MARINET aims at streamlining and
facilitating testing by offering periods of free- MARINET brings together an infrastructure
of-charge access to world-class test facilities with 42 facilities from 28 partners spread
and by developing joint approaches to testing across 11 EU countries and Brazil, all
standards, research and industry networking collaborating to accelerate the development
and training. and commercial deployment of marine
renewable energy. Due to popular demand
the MARINET programme has been extended
and a sixth call has been launched for access
during 2015.
Coordinator: University College Cork, SFI MaREI Centre
Project budget: €11,093,659
www.fp7-marinet.eu/
Other project participants: University College Cork - Beaufort Research (UCC-BEAUFORT) / Aalborg University (AAU) / Ecole Centrale
De Nantes (ECN) / New and Renewable Energy Centre Limited (NAREC) / University of Exeter (UNEXE) / European Marine Energy
Centre Ltd (EMEC) / Ente Vasco de la Energia (EVE) / Fundaciòn Tecnalia Research & Innovation (TECNALIA)
University of Strathclyde (Uni_Strath) / The University of Edinburgh (UEDIN) / Queen's University Belfast (QUB) / Sustainable Energy
Authority of Ireland - Ocean Energy Development Unit (SEAI_OEDU) / Tidal Testing Centre (TTC) / Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (FH_
IWES) / The French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER) / Wave Energy Centre (WavEC)
1-Tech s.p.r.l. (1_Tech)* / Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (Technical University of Denmark) DTU / Energy Research Centre of the
Netherlands (ECNeth) / SINTEF Energiforskning AS (SINTEF) / Centro di Ricerca Interuniversitario di Aerodinamica delle Costruzioni
e Ingegneria del Vento (Inter-University Research Center for Building Aerodynamics and Wind Engineering) (UNIFI-CRIACIV) /
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH)* / Laboratory of Experimental Oceanology and Marine Ecology – Tuscia
University (UNITUS)* / University of Stuttgart (USTUTT) / Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Plymouth University (PU) / Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnológicas do Estado de São Paulo S.A. (IPT)* / CNR-INSEAN – Consiglio
Nazionale delle Ricerche – National Research Council of Italy (CNR-INSEAN) / PIN s.c.r.l. Educational and Scientific Services for the
University of Florence (UNIFI-PIN)*.BUILDING ON IRISH ENERGY RESEARCH PERFORMANCE
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Ray Alcorn
UCC MaREI34
IMPRESS
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The IMPRESS project focuses on energy efficiency
in buildings by developing and demonstrating three
different panels on two existing buildings where final
as-built product performance will be validated against
the initial design.
IMPRESS will create the panels using an The project, with Irish partners Temperature
innovative manufacturing process that Ireland/ Sirus and Techrete is aimed at at
involves the development of nano/micro improving the panels’ thermal performance
particles based coatings suitable for 3D and light radiation, optimum thermal and
printing. weathering resistance, and enable optimum
passive heating and cooling benefits.
IMPRESS will create the panels, an innovative
manufacturing process will be created that Developing a manufacturing process aimed
involves the development of innovative nano/ at building panel efficiency will enable a fast
micro particle based coatings, suitable for and mass production of panels, while lowering
3D printing. These will aid anti-corrosion prefabrication costs and deliver new cost
resistance, high mechanical strength, effective solutions.
improved solar reflectance, improved ageing
resistance and anti-vandalism properties.
Coordinator: Integrated Environmental Solutions with Irish partners: Temperature Ireland/Sirus and Techrete
Project budget: €6,072,790
Call for proposal: H2020-EE-2014-1-PPP
Other project participants: Integrated Environmental Solutions Limited, United Kingdom; The Queen’s University of Belfast, United
Kingdom; Techrete Ireland Limited, Ireland; Sviluppo Tecnologie e Ricera per D’Edilizia Sismicamente Sicura Ed Ecosostenibile Scarl, Italy;
Hypucem srl, Italy; Temperature Limited, Ireland; CSP srl, Italy; Stam srl, Italy; Geonardo Environmental Technologies Ltd, Hungary;
Biesse Tape Solutions spa, Italy; Bergamo Tecnologie Spzoo, Poland; Tekla(UK) Ltd, United Kingdom; Alonso Hernandez & Asociados
Arquitectos sl, Spain; Novel Technologies Center srl, Romania; Municipul Drobeta Turnu Severin, Romania; Council of the City of Coventry
United Kingdom.35
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Temperature Ltd /
Tony O’Keefe
Sirus Ltd.36
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MACCSOL
MACCSOL is an Irish-led research project that aims at
developing and verifying a novel modular air-cooled
condenser for concentrated solar power plants.
The generation of power using solar radiation, MACCSol technology will enable concentrated
has the potential to provide a significant solar power plants to increase net power
portion of the EU’s renewable energy targets. output, and reduce costs compared to existing
The European CSP industry has identified the dry cooled plants by incorporating sensors
shortage of water to cool the condensers of that detect changes in temperature, ambient
the CSP plants as being a significant barrier to wind, fan flow rate, and control algorithms.
CSP’s deployment, coupled with the fact that
MACCSol is an Irish academic and industry-
current air cooled condenser technologies are
led collaborative research project that
highly inefficient.
optimises turbine outlet conditions, maximises
power output and reduces operating and
maintenance costs.
Coordinator: University of Limerick
Project budget: €5,912,100
vwww.drycooledcsp.eu
Other project participants: RR Projects, Ireland / AuBren Ltd, Ireland / Torresol Energy Investments S.A., Spain / University of Erlangen-
Nuremburg, Germany / University of Perugia, Italy / Archi Ilektrismou Kyprou (Electricity Authority of Cyprus), Cyprus
Vast Solar Pty Ltd, Australia.BUILDING ON IRISH ENERGY RESEARCH PERFORMANCE 37
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MARINA
BUILDING ON IRISH ENERGY RESEARCH PERFORMANCE
The MARINA Platform project combines deep- Multi-purpose platforms for marine renewable
water engineering experience from European oil energy are in their infancy, yet hold great
and gas developments over the last 40 years, promise for the future. In order to kick-start
state-of-the-art concepts for offshore wind their growth, EU-funded research engineers
energy, and the most promising concepts in are developing design and optimisation tools
today’s research-and-development pipeline on focused on system integration and cost and
wave energy and other marine renewables. risk reduction. The MARINA project combines
marine engineering experience from 17
The MARINA Platform project developed
industrial and research partners from 12
a set of methodologies and tools allowing
different countries.
the technical and financial evaluation of
multi-purpose marine renewable energy MARINA Platform is designed to capitalise on
platforms in terms of risk, reliability, cost the vast body of proven marine technological
per kWh, carbon life cycle, etc. These tools were knowledge gained in one of the world’s most
then applied to three very different combined hostile off-shore operating environments, the
platform concepts developed and tested within North Sea.
the project. A spatial planning decision support
tool (Geographical Information System) was
developed to facilitate the preliminary site
selection of these combined platforms in a safe,
effective and efficient manner.
MARINA Platform is a Spanish-led European project
which aims at bringing offshore renewable energy
applications closer to the market by creating new
knowledge and design and assessment methodologies
for combined offshore wind and ocean energy
converters.
Coordinator: ACCIONA Energía with 1 Irish partner: University College Cork
Project budget: €12,761,221
www.marina-platform.info
Other project participants: University College Cork, Ireland / the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) / The
University of Edinburgh / Tecnalia / DONG Energy / DONG Wind, Denmark / Technip, France / Ecole Centrale de Nantes (ECN) /
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) / University of the Algarve, Portugal / Technical University of Denmark,
Denmark / Progeco, France / 1-Tech, United Kingdom / Corrosion and Water-Control, The Netherlands / Statoil,Norway
Fraunhofer IWES, Germany / Bureau Veritas, France.The
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Horizon 2020
SEAI – HORIZON 2020
Programme
Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU
research and innovation programme
ever with funding of nearly EUR 80
billion available over a period of seven
years (2014 – 2020). It promises more
breakthroughs, discoveries and world
firsts by taking great ideas from the
lab to the market. Representing a way
to drive economic growth and create
jobs, Horizon 2020 has the political
backing of Europe’s leaders and the
Members of the European Parliament.Under the Societal Challenge Pillar of H2020, Low Carbon Technologies
the energy work programme titled ‘Secure,
Research activities within this area will cover:
Clean and Efficient Energy’ has a budget of
photovoltaics, concentrated solar power,
EUR 5 931 million and is designed to support
wind energy, ocean energy, hydro power,
the transition to a reliable, sustainable and
geothermal energy, renewable heating 41
competitive energy system. The Energy
and cooling, energy storage, biofuels and
Programme is categorised according to the
BUILDING ON IRISH ENERGY RESEARCH PERFORMANCE
alternative fuels, carbon capture and storage.
following focus areas:
Smart Cities and Communities
Energy Efficiency
The sustainable development of urban areas
Research and demonstration activities within
is a challenge of key importance. It requires
this area will focus on: buildings, industry,
new, efficient, and user-friendly technologies
heating and cooling, SMEs and energy-related
and services, in particular in the areas of
products and services, integration of ICT and
energy, transport and ICT. However, these
cooperation with the telecom sector.
solutions need integrated approaches in terms
of the research and development of advanced
technological solutions, as well as deployment.
Another new initiative under H2020 is the SME For further details please contact:
Instrument which is designed to fill the gaps
Dr Matthew Kennedy, National Delegate
in funding for the early stages of research and
for Energy Horizon 2020
innovation and to accelerate the exploitation
of new solutions. Projects will be selected Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland Wilton
through a bottom-up approach within a given Park House, Dublin 2
societal challenge or enabling technology of Tel: 01 808 2070
H2020. The fund is open to individual SMEs. matthew.kennedy@seai.ie
The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland Philip Cheasty, National Contact Point
(SEAI) works in collaboration with Enterprise for Energy Horizon 2020
Ireland to deliver Horizon 2020 Energy in
Ireland. If you have a potential project Enterprise Ireland, Rossa Ave. Cork
proposal idea, are interested in learning more Tel: 021 480 0216
about the initiative, or need some assistance philip.cheasty@enterprise-ireland.com
in moving your concept into a full application
then it is best to contact the support team
below. Engagement with the team will help
you to structure your application and build
your consortium, increasing the likelihood of
securing financial assistance.Building on Ireland’s energy research performance
Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland T. +353 1 8082100 info@seai.ie Wilton Park House, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland F. +353 1 8082002 www.seai.ie @seai_ie
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