27th March 2018: Ispra, Italy
As part of the Commission's internal Low Carbon Energy Observatory (LCEO) project, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) is developing an inventory of Future Emerging Technologies (FET) relevant to energy supply.
A key part of the LCEO initiative is the consultation of external experts, addressing both those with in-depth experience in specific fields and those with a broad perspective on relevant science and engineering aspects. In this context, on March 27, 2018 the JRC organised a Workshop on Identification of Future Emerging Technologies for Ocean Enery, on it premises in Ispra.
The workshop was organized on the idea of a colloquium between international experts to discuss about future emerging technologies considering different aspects such as their technology readiness level (TRL) , the potential advantages and challenges affecting their development, and evaluating the possible speed of development .
A number of different technological solutions were discussed, identified directly by the invited experts on the condition that they respected the following criteria:
• To be a technology for energy supply/conversion in the field of ocean energy.
• To be a radically new technology/concept, not achievable by incremental research on mainstream technologies (this should match the concept of the Future Emerging Technology in the Horizon 2020 work program http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/h2020-section/future-and-emerging-technologies).
• To be in an early stage of development: their Technology Readiness Level should not be more than 3.
Questionnaires were sent to experts for the identification of ocean energy FETs. The templates can be found in Appendix B. The structure of the workshop was builtupon the inputs received from the experts and on in-house analysis undertaken by the JRC.
The aim of this document is to gather, organize and highlight all the knowledge and information, provided by the external and internal experts, which were discussed during the workshop.
MAGAGNA Davide;
MARGHETINI Lucia;
ALESSI Andrea;
BANNON Elva;
BOELMAN Elisa;
BOULD Dave;
COY Vicky;
DE MARCHI Eliana;
FRIGAARD Peter;
GUEDES SOARES C.;
GOLIGHTLY Chris;
HALS TODALSHAUG Jorgen;
HEWARD Myles;
HOFMANN Matthias;
HOLMES Brian;
JOHNSTONE Cameron;
KAMIZURU Yukio;
LEWIS Tony;
MACADRE Laura-Mae;
MAISONDIEU Christophe;
MARTINI Michele;
MORO Alberto;
NIELSEN Kim;
REIS Vera;
ROBERTSON Simon;
SCHILD Philippe;
SOEDE M;
TAYLOR Nigel;
VIOLA Ignacio;
WALLET Nicolas;
WADBLED Xavier;
YEATS Ben;
2018-10-27
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC112635
978-92-79-92587-0 (online),
978-92-79-92586-3 (print),
1831-9424 (online),
1018-5593 (print),
EUR 29315 EN,
OP KJ-NA-29315-EN-N (online),
OP KJ-NA-29315-EN-C (print),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC112635,
10.2760/23207 (online),
10.2760/902332 (print),
