Tidal power R&D project with the potential to
transform energy transition and climate response
UK government research and innovation grant
assists technology development
DALLAS, Nov. 15,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A Jacobs (NYSE: J)-led
consortium of industry and academic organizations has been awarded
funding from the U.K. government to help develop a new type of
water turbine designed to improve the viability and potential of
U.K. tidal range power projects.
The $1 million U.K. Research and
Innovation fund (UKRI) SMART grant will support Jacobs' industrial
research with Severn Estuary Tidal Bar Limited, in collaboration
with Cardiff University, Liverpool
John Moores University and the Tidal Range Alliance (part of the
British Hydro Association BHA).
"Our industrial research will now seek to optimize an economic
and environmentally sensitive turbine that enables prospective
developers of tidal range power projects to harness the
predictable, renewable power of daily tides," said Jacobs Senior
Vice President Karen Wiemelt.
"Through our research, scientific, engineering and program
management capabilities, Jacobs is ideally placed to advance this
technology to continue supporting renewable energy resource
development and climate response efforts."
Combined with further investment from the consortium, the grant
will help progress optimization and testing of the Very Low Head
turbine (VLHT). It will fund a program of computational fluid
dynamics modeling, a large-scale test rig and the manufacture of a
fully functioning prototype turbine at Jacobs' Technology &
Innovation Center in Warrington,
U.K.
The VLHT is being developed to address challenges faced by
several U.K. tidal range schemes, including the need to reduce
relatively high costs, improve turbine performance for
bi-directional generation and reduce environmental impacts. The
technology will also support opportunities to capture additional
benefits such as short duration energy storage and protection from
rising sea levels for coastal communities and inter-tidal
habitats.
Committed to the advancement of new energy technology research
and sustainability, Jacobs recently completed the underground
infrastructure engineering for The HDD Company for Oregon State University's PacWave
South commercial-scale, ocean wave energy testing facility in
Oregon. The award-winning facility
will be the first pre-permitted, full-scale test facility for wave
energy devices in the U.S. Jacobs is ranked No. 1 in the Top 50
Program Management Firms and No. 2 in Power by Engineering
News-Record's 2023 ranking.
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