Consortium awarded extra funding to create £9 million offshore renewables hub

A national consortium which has the University of Strathclyde as a core member has been awarded an additional £4 million funding to cement the UK’s position as a global leader in offshore renewable energy (ORE) innovation and research. The Supergen ORE Hub was created in July 2018 to bring together a network of academic, industrial and policy stakeholders to champion and maintain the UK’s wave, tidal and offshore wind expertise. It was initially awarded £5million by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), and has now received an additional £4million to expand the support it offers researchers working across the country. The Supergen ORE Hub is led by Professor Deborah Greaves OBE, Head of the School of Engineering and Computing, Electronics and Mathematics at the University of Plymouth. As well as Strathclyde, which brings vast expertise in Offshore Engineering, Wind Power and Marine Renewable Energy to the Hub, it includes academics from the Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Exeter, Hull, Manchester, Oxford, Southampton, and Warwick It is also working with an advisory board, made up of industry leaders, policy makers and other key stakeholders, to ensure it is addressing the key challenges faced by companies in the ORE sector.