How France is going to catch up on marine renewable technologies? Marc BOEUF, R&D Manager

2013, October 03th

Wind

Swell

Current

Tide

Temperature

Fixed offshore wind turbines

Tidal turbines

OTEC Wave energy converters

Tidal dams

MRE industrial sector has various

maturity levels

Floating offshore wind turbines

Wind

Heat pump & Air conditionning

Temperature

Osmotic energy

Salt

Marine energies THE FULL SET OF MARINE AND OCEAN ENERGIES

Ocean Energies

3

Zones for the 1st bid of offshore windfarms ATLANTIC & CHANNEL

180 km², 480-500 MW

Resource assessment: technically producible 50 TWh/y

Fixed offshore wind

4

Haliade 150 Alstom Le Carnet 6 MW turbine

M 5000 Areva Alpha-Ventus 5 MW turbine

Floating offshore wind

5

Winflo DCNS-Nass&Wind-Vergnet South Britanny 1 MW then 6 MW turbine

Vertiwind Nenuphar-Technip-EDFEN Gulf of Fos 2 MW turbine

Tidal energy

6

EDF La Rance 240 MW

Current

7 Openhydro - DCNS EDF Bréhat 2 MW array

D03 Sabella Bénodet Next: D10, 2MW array

Alstom TGL Orkney 1MW

Wave

8 AWE/WaveRoller Baie d’Audierne

ALSTOM/AWS Test at Loch Ness

Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion

9 DCNS 20 MW Martinique project

Surface water pump

Deep water pipes

Mooring lines

Air-conditioning & heat pump

Titanium exchanger La Seyne/mer

Intercontinental hotel Bora-Bora

Relative maturity levels of 7 types of Marine Energy converters AN EVOLUTIVE ENERGY MIX

Source: Indicta & France Energies Marines

© Ifremer/G.Véron

Fixed offshore wind

Tidal range

Osmotic energy

Tidal current Floating offshore wind Wave energy OTEC

Starting date

Challenges and opportunities of the MRE development AN IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION TO THE FUTURE ENERGY MIX

Sources : EWEA,EU OEA EIA-OES ADEME

© Ifremer/G.Véron

Commitments to reduce CO2 emissions

• European commitment (20/20/20)

• Grenelle de l’environnement (23% EnR, 3% MRE)

A very large energy potential worldwide 3 600 TWh/yr of technical potential by 2030 (France electrical energy generation: 600 TWh/yr)

Fixed offshore

wind

Floating offshore

wind

Tidal turbines Wave energy

conversion

Ocean Thermal

conversion

2030 Europe (inst’d capacity in GW)

150

8 - 12

1,2

0,6 - 1

0,5 - 1,5

2030 France (inst’d capacity in GW)

10 - 13 3-6 0,5-1 0,2 - 0,5 0,5 - 1

2050 France (inst’d capacity in GW)

30 3 10 30?

MRE in France >20% of electric mix (without OTEC)

A Public-Private Partnership involving more than 30 companies and 20 public entities representing all the key players of the MRE sector across the different coastal regions mainland and in France’s overseas territories.

70 researchers, engineers, technicians 134 M€ over 10 years

5 test sites

A single institute offering a complete range of services R&D, VALIDATION, EXPERTISE, TRAINING, DISSEMINATION

Industrial development

leadership

Tools, Data bases, software, Patents, Expertise

www.france-energies-marines.org

How France is going to catch up on marine renewable technologies? Marc BOEUF, R&D Manager