3 Emerging Technologies Flashcards
Global Ocean Energy (OE)
Global theoretical potential of OE is 100,000 TWh/year
With today’s technology;
Wave energy - 45,000 TWh/year
Tidal energy - 2200 TWh/year
can be obtained
Global electricity consumption in 2010 was 16,000 TWh/year
OE in Relation to NI
NI import 92% of its energy
It’s possible that Irish wave industry meeting the 500 MW 2020 target, produces 1400 jobs & a NET PRESENT VALUE of 0.25 billion euro. Could increase to 17-52,000 jobs and NPV of 4-10 billion euro by 2030.
Tidal industry provide 200 MW by 2020, 600 jobs and an NPV of 111 million euro. Could increase to 8.5-17,000 jobs and NPV between 1.5-2.75 billion euro by 2030.
Different Regions of Ireland have different strengths
In NI- Tidal energy is better with sites across Northeast coast, Copeland Island and Strangford lough able to contain tidal devices with estimated capacity of up to 650 MW
In ROI- wave energy is better mainly along west coast. A Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland (SEAI) report estimated accessible wave energy resource to be 21 TWh, 75% of ROI 2006 energy demands
NI Inter connector
The Moyle inter connector is capable of transferring some 500 MW of power to Scotland however only 80 MW can be sold to Scotland while some 450 MW can come from Scotland to us.
But, we can use the 500 MW inter connector going from Meath to Wales. This is viable as in the future Wales and England will import even more energy
Ireland is in a strong position for developing OE technologies
5 universities have research centres for OE, namely; University College Cork University of Limerick National University of Ireland Galway National University of Ireland Maynooth QUB
ROI test centres and prototypes
small scaled prototypes are in Cork and Galway Bay which is developing 1/4 scale projects and full scale projects have been made available in Belmullet Wave Energy Test Site, operational from 2012.
QUB has a test located in Strangford Lough for testing OE
