“Innovation and technology flows in renewable energy industries: a research plan”

This presentation will outline a research plan aimed at understanding innovation and technology flows in renewable energy industry development, with emphasis on offshore wind energy, using an innovation systems framework and network analysis approach. The study will provide insights into how innovation networks contribute to the development of RE industries and the diffusion of RE technologies.

"Adiabatic Offshore Compressed Air Energy Storage for Grid Integration of Offshore Wind"

National and global concerns over sustainability and climate change have created incentives to meet our energy demand from sustainable and renewable resources, like wind power. As wind energy technology and markets mature, a push to move wind generating plants offshore near coastal load centers will be highly desired. High penetration levels of utility-scale wind power poses new challenges to grid system operators. Wind is a highly intermittent resource which is not dispatchable, however, new storage techniques coupled with offshore wind will enable wind to be grid friendly and gives promising outlook for offshore wind to meet future demand and energy requirements. This presentation will give a broad overview of current energy storage technologies and will focus in on energy storage methods for offshore wind power using underwater adiabatic compressed air energy storage.