The ReEnergise Podcast

In this episode, we widen the focus of our lens to discuss the UK’s green recovery and the opportunity presented by offshore renewables. We bring together leading voices on climate change and renewable energy to discuss the UK’s future green recovery. With ‘Green Recovery’ a hot topic and the country facing years of after-effects from the COVID-19 pandemic, our guests outlined where the opportunit...

At the beginning of the year, our Analysis and Insight Manager, Tom Quinn, wrote a blog titled ‘ORE Catapult’s 2020 Predictions in Offshore Renewable Energy’ that identified five key trends in offshore renewables that he predicted would take off this year. These included: 1. The long-awaited UK energy policy white paper will be published by the Government 2. New market entrants 3. Hydrogen gathers...

Planning operations and maintenance activity is a challenging task. It can be difficult to predict if sea conditions will allow turbine technician transfer via crew transfer vessels (CTVs) to take place, and often marine operators have a limited source of information for making this decision. This is where the SPOWTT project comes in. SPOWTT – which stands for Safety and Productivity of Offshore W...

With the UK now well underway in working towards net-zero by 2050, the way we produce, use and store energy is changing. Our sources of power, heating and transport must decarbonise if we are to achieve the net-zero targets outlined by the Committee on Climate Change, but current methods of offshore renewable energy production cannot achieve this alone. This is where Green Hydrogen comes in. In th...

This special episode covers a topic that has a particular resonance during these months of home-schooling due to the COVID-19 lockdown - engaging children in science. Three seasoned campaigners from ORE Catapult’s engineering and disruptive innovation teams talk about their experience of getting into STEM-based occupations and the different ways they are bringing this to local schools, online STEM...

In this episode, we’re focussing upon the truly Mammoth Tasks that are involved in keeping the UK’s offshore wind farms going. We’re talking about inspecting, maintaining and repairing thousands of miles of subsea cables, millions of super-sized bolts and thousands of blades suspended above the ocean waves. This is heavy manual work, often undertaken in extreme conditions - fraught with risks, del...

In the latest Re-Energise podcast episode, we’re discussing the transformation of the offshore energy sector – from decades of oil & gas production to the adoption of offshore renewable energy. This energy transition has never been more important, as the UK works towards its ambitious net-zero targets by 2050. To do so is not to say that offshore renewable energy will replace oil & gas production...

In this episode, ORE Catapult's Claire Canning discusses support for innovative technology development for the offshore renewables energy sector. As the offshore wind industry continues to grow at a record pace, ORE Catapult has recognised the need to improve the route-to-market for start-ups and SMEs in the sector. As a result, we have a variety of programmes available for small enterprises inclu...

The EnFAIT consortium met at the head office of the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult in Glasgow just last month. We seized the opportunity to record several of them in conversation, discussing the project, commercial prospects for tidal power and even whether tidal turbines have personalities. Hosting was Vicky Coy, Project Manager at the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, and responsible...

Meet the people leading the UK's energy transition and the greatest innovation adventure of our time! In this episode, we explore a heady mix of advanced AI and robotics with offshore renewables. Recorded on February 6, four robotics and renewable energy industry experts discussed how crawling, climbing and sailing robots, NASA mission planning will revolutionise the offshore wind industry. This e...

The wind industry is on the verge of a data revolution, as developers and operators look for new ways to accelerate the impressive expansion and cost reductions achieved in its first decades. ORE. There is an immense opportunity around the data and information generated form operational sites–wind farms bristle with data from asset sensors, environmental measurements and process information such a...

In this episode, Ben Moore is joined by the UK’s leading business leaders and researchers in the renewable energy world. They address a mysterious subject, something that is invisible to us, works for us every second of the day and is, for most people, intangible and unknowable: it is the National Grid. And the Grid faces the biggest challenge in its history…how much can it take? Alex Hunter is Ma...

Charlotte Strang-Moran, graduate electrical engineer at ORE Catapult, compares career paths with three of her engineering colleagues. If you’re looking at engineering as a future career, you’ll get some advice on qualifying, getting your first projects, choosing your discipline and getting into the fast-growing renewable energy sector. Can you have both a maths brain and an art brain? Charlotte an...

This podcast comes from the team at ORE Catapult’s world-leading Test and Validation Centre in Blyth on the Northumberland coast. Bracing themselves for the next-generation of wind turbine blades exceeding more than 100 metres, they discuss just how big wind farms can get offshore and how developers have to balance competing laws of physics and logistics. We ask, just how high and how far out can...

In first episode of the series, Stephanie Mann, Innovation Manager at ORE Catapult, spoke to three company CEOs who have moved their businesses into the UK's fast-growing offshore wind sector. They share their stories of breaking into the market, pitching ideas to wind industry giants, tackling 'innovation inertia' and outline the newest opportunities for forward-thinking entrepreneurs. Could you...