Abstract
A Funding Grant was awarded from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme to develop and validate an innovative tidal turbine control system, using the tidal turbine itself as a sensor, to deliver a step change improvement in the performance. This will demonstrate Effective Lifetime Extension in the Marine Environment for Tidal Energy (ELEMENT), driving the EU tidal energy sector to commercial reality. This was in response to the call LC-SC3-RES-11-2018: Developing solutions to reduce the cost and increase performance of renewable technologies.
This document is produced to provide the detailed plan for ELEMENT WP12 (Socioeconomic Impact Assessment), and is also submitted to satisfy deliverable D12.1 of the ELEMENT project.
The document is structured as follows:
- Section 2 summarises the findings of our initial literature review
- Section 3 maps out the various stakeholders with a role/interest in the tidal energy industry
- Section 4 sets out our detailed plan for completing the remainder of WP12.