Sponsors and Exhibitors

Gurit is the leading manufacturer and supplier of composite materials to the global marine, wind energy, aerospace, rail and automotive markets with a range of products and services including prepregs, liquid epoxies for infusion and laminating, structural pastes, film adhesives, dry reinforcements, core materials, structural design and process engineering. With 25 years experience in the marine market, Gurit has extensive involvement in marine craft, offshore platforms, power generators, subsea structures and structural engineering of subsea blades. Gurit is the perfect partner for companies involved in the emerging tidal power industry and can support a client in setting-up a manufacturing facility for power generating devices, or even undertaking their manufacture.

Proven strength under a new name: The joint venture of Voith and Siemens which was founded in April 2000 will now be known as Voith Hydro. As before, we are a full-line supplier for advanced hydroelectric equipment, technology, and services to the renewable energy market. The shares of both partners remain unchanged.

More than 40,000 generators and turbines have been installed worldwide by Voith Hydro, positioning it as a leading manufacturer for clean and low-carbon power generation from water. This not only applies to traditional hydro power but for energy from the oceans as well.

The company’s rich history dates back to 1867. And for over 100 years, hydro power plants all over the world have been equipped with machines from Heidenheim. Many of the these orignal operators are our customers to this very day.

At the 3rd Annual Tidal Energy Conference, VerdErg will announce the launch of VerdErg Renewable Energy Ltd. and unveil details of the Spectral Marine Energy Converter.

VerdErg has over 30 years of experience in the development, supply and installation supervision of innovative offshore technologies for the energy industry.  Because of our 15 years of continuous deepwater activity in the hostile environment West of Shetlands, we are recognised as specialists in deploying subsea hardware that is effective, robust and rapidly installed.

VerdErg has completed the first phase of the development of a patented Tidal Energy machine called SMEC that promises renewable electricity directly competitive with Fossil Fuel at around 2p per Kilowatt Hour. SMEC converts Potential Energy in the Tidal Flow to electricity and therefore operates beyond the “Betz Limit” which constrains the output of Kinetic Energy flow converters. The Carbon Trust has commissioned W S Atkins to audit VerdErg’s claims that a Gigawatt-scale SMEC can be commissioned for a capital cost significantly less than £1m per MW installed capacity.

Reliability, Installability and Maintainability were prioritised in the design of SMEC by using proven offshore technologies and minimising moving parts subsea.  This ensures SMEC will generate electricity with high system availability.

See www.VerdErg.com for details

We - Blohm + Voss Industries GmbH (BVI) - develop, manufacture and market maritime shaft seals in Hamburg, Germany under the world-wide long established and well-recognized
SIMPLEX brand name.

Owing to the experience collected for over 60 years and having supplied more than 55,000 seals to the maritime industry we have gained an advanced technical knowledge about the two main shaft sealing technologies  LIP-TYPE  and  FACE-TYPE !

With our state-of-the-art R&D department we continuously develop tailor-made solutions for nearly any underwater shaft seal application even in the harshest environments.

Adding to the above technical expertise we offer individual world-wide service for our sealing solutions ensuring smooth operation for your tidal turbine.

We look forward to sharing our long-established seal knowledge with you!

Our contact details are:

Mr. Uwe Hawer uwe.hawer@thyssenkrupp.com, +49 40 30 11 1392
Mr. Jan Ihde jan.ihde@thyssenkrupp.com, +49 40 30 11 1587

Aquatera provides a modern and innovative suite of environmental services and products, encompassing strategic planning, public and stakeholder communications, environmental assessment and surveying, and integrated renewables support. Aquatera’s holistic environmental perspective combines deep scientific and technical understanding with state-of-the-art communications expertise, to enable assessment and management of the potential impacts of a project on the environment, and also how the environment may impinge on the project. Aquatera provides full lifecycle support for renewable energy and environmental projects, from first concept through to decommissioning. For more information, visit http://www.aquatera.co.uk

ABB is globally committed to developing environmentally friendly energy solutions using renewable resources and is a strong partner to marine energy projects.

ABB supports device developers and system integrators by supplying practical, proven products such as induction or permanent magnet synchronous generators, power frequency converters, transformers, switchboards and controllers for local supervisory and remote monitoring. In addition, ABB can take responsibility for the grid connection and interface engineering and containerisation of all the equipment.

Custom-built ABB generators are key components on devices for renewable power generation, as fitted in the world’s first commercial wave farm, a 2.25MW installation off the coast of northern Portugal or as installed on the 300 kW Hammerfest Strøm tidal turbine in Norway.

ABB's application specific power converters perform an efficient variable speed operation and a compliant grid interface. Subsea off-shore interconnection of several kilometres between generator and converters are possible with medium voltage system.

Aquascientific was formed in 2006 by Dr Adrian Janssen and Prof Michael Belmont. The company is developing a highly efficient, variable aspect tidal turbine primarily for estuarine and river energy extraction. The design benefits from a fundamental robustness, being highly efficient at lower flow speeds and its low speed high torque operation is designed to avoid issues with marine life. 

After winning two highly competitive grant awards totaling £300,000 from the DTI and the prestigious Royal Society, the team have developed 3 prototypes at the University of Exeter's marine dynamics department. The first sea going prototype (15KW) is due to best tested in the Exe estuary in Devon during Summer 2009. After testing of the Exe Estuary prototype, Aquascientific hopes to advance talks with industrial partners and investors and begin designing their commercial demonstrator. Aquascientific have also recently been asked to submit a proposal for low environmental impact alternative to the severn barrage. 

Aviation Enterprises Ltd., a well-established aviation based design/development/manufacturing engineering company specialising in composite materials, has since 2002 been developing a wealth of experience in design and manufacture of Tidal Turbine (TT) blades. As a result of this momentum, and interest expressed in our capabilities by other UK tidal turbine developers, AEL decided, in 2005, to apply its expertise and develop this business to provide a specialist composite TT blade design, development and manufacture service, focussing R&D on reliable design, efficient use of materials and minimising development and production costs.

Aviation Enterprises now leads the world in the design, development and manufactiure of tidal turbine blades of all types, featuring most tidal turbine developers amongst its client portfolio.

Designcraft  is  a small technology based company founded in 2001 and  located on the waterside  in Southampton UK

Our expertise gained in over 20 years of   Wind Energy  is in  the design and construction of turbine blades, and we are currently  active in providing technical support  for new blade development to  the world’s largest wind turbine manufacturer . We have experience with many different materials, processes and build methods and are adapting the best of these in the design and manufacture of underwater turbine blades.

Our aim is to offer robust and cost effective blade designs, tooling and prototype builds to meet the immediate needs of this new industry. As the industry matures we plan to support it with a more developed technology to meet the cost and performance demands that will surely come.

We are keen to meet developers and machinery  manufacturers looking for help with blades, and other composite components.

www.designcraft.co.uk for more details.

The Pentland Firth Project, the successful Regional Initiative for wave and tidal developments in the Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters, supports marine energy developers in their quest to perfect commercial scale schemes. Work on sites in the region is expected to start in 2010, following the award of seabed leases by The Crown Estate later on this year. Highlands & Islands Enterprise, The Crown Estate and The Scottish Government are working together to develop the industry, bringing jobs to the local area and making a significant contribution to renewables targets.

Our goal is to meet companies, research organisations and investors with an interest in marine renewable energy. As well as looking for synergies with the local supply chain which includes a significant capability in engineering design and fabrication, environmental consultancy and other support services, we are keen to meet high energy users with an interest in data centres, energy storage and other related fields.

IHC Lagersmit specializes in sealing solutions for rotating shafts, innovation and providing solutions in partnership with clients. This assures we achieve the highest level of excellence in the international marketplace. [download our company profile]

IHC Lagermit is a business unit in the Technology and Services division within IHC Merwede. The business units of Technology & Services function as centers of excellence. The division provides support services and auxiliary equipment to dredging and offshore related companies, both internally and outside IHC Merwede. IHC Lagersmit focuses itself on the Marine, Offshore, Dredging and Renewable Energy sector.

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Kinetic Automation is an Australian based company offering electrical design, service and support to Automation and Process Control and Renewable Energy Industries. We are authorised distributors for OPC Systems.NET SCADA for Australia and New Zealand. Our recent 2 ½ years experience in tidal energy projects has allowed us to become proficient in design and delivery of power and control systems, software development, workshop testing regimes, live off grid testing of full size turbines out in open water up to 200kw, monitoring of tidal movement using ADCP’s, logging data from all systems to database for reporting and analysis and ultimately commissioning grid connected systems. Kinetic has developed and is about to release a new Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition application called reSCADA which has been designed to complement the whole project life cycle of any Renewable Energy System Project.

For more information email info@kineticautomation.com or visit www.kineticautomation.com

Mojo Maritime are the leading experts in Marine Operations and Marine Consultancy in the offshore renewable energy industry.  We combine practical installation experience with a strong consultancy based approach and this allows us to develop innovative solutions from our multi-disciplined team.

Our strength is our ability to deliver a project from conception to final installation. We believe this ‘hands on’ approach is unique in the offshore renewable energy sector and allows us to have a better understanding of the issues and of the necessary contingencies required. This also allows a better understanding of the commercial aspects of installation and is a key factor in our success.

Our clients are typically offshore renewable energy companies where we offer a range of project support services in support of their projects. We also operate on behalf of several Principal Contractors providing project management support services.

Partrac is a dynamic consultancy-contractor, specialising in oceanography, marine geosciences and survey. A Scottish company with offices in Glasgow and Thurso we combine both consultancy and marine survey/data acquisition. Our consultancy team works alongside our oceanographic and survey teams to support tidal energy projects; we provide:

• Metocean surveys
• Tidal energy resource assessments
• Turbulence measurements
• Wave monitoring
• Baseline environmental surveys
• Installation and post-installation impact monitoring
• Geophysical and hydrographic surveys
• Cable route surveys
• Coastal processes studies (EIA support)
• Management of geotechnical investigations
• Scour risk assessments
• GIS and data management

Our staff have delivered projects for tidal energy projects in Scotland, Wales, N.I. and England. Our clients include developers, tidal energy device manufacturers and utility companies. Projects delivered include coastal process studies, quantification of tidal energy resource and provision of data and assessments for de-risking environmental and engineering aspects of projects.

SABELLA is a pioneering and persevering project under development for nearly 10 years. The SABELLA Company derived from a consortium integrating complementary expertises of its partners to develop a dedicated turbine technology to harness tidal hydrokinetic energy. The Company human asset is composed of the top specialists in the field of marine energies, and receives the support from 5 industrial groups specialised in subsea construction, offshore works, renewable energies, marine environment, and electrical facilities (SOFRESID ENGINNERING, SAIPEM, HYDROHELIX ENERGIES, INVIVO ENVIRONMENT and DOURMAP).

In 2008, the Company successfully developed "SABELLA D03", an initial 10 to 80 kW tidal stream turbine prototype (scale 1/3) which was immersed and tested in Bénodet, Brittany (France). This project is a key reference as it was the first underwater tidal current powered turbine in France.

Based on this "D03" experience feedback, the SABELLA active team is working towards an industrial and commercial solution, and had launched the "SABELLA D10" program, full-size pre-industrial tidal turbine, 200 to 300 kW of power, which is planned to be tested in situ in 2011.

Titan Environmental Surveys is one of the leading UK contractors in near shore surveying with a wealth of experience in oceanographic/ hydrographic/ geophysical surveying and ecological studies undertaken for clients throughout the UK and overseas.

Our experience in renewable energy sector has involved us undertaking near-shore cable routes and landfall surveys whilst our metocean capability has supported pre and post construction environmental assessments and modeling studies.

Titan’s team of professionally qualified staff is fully trained in the operation of  our 'state-of-the art' measurement technology and is supported by our own fleet of inshore survey vessels.

This combination of experienced management and operatives, together with our understanding of the legislative drivers for coastal studies provides us with a unique understanding of survey strategies and objectives, allowing us to provide clients with reliable and accurate information from a service tailored to meet their needs.

The South West RDA (Regional Development Agency) leads the development of a sustainable and low carbon economy in South West England, investing in jobs, supporting business, improving places and creating the conditions for business to prosper. It sets the strategy for public-sector funded business support services in the region, investing in and prioritising products and projects, such as Wave Hub and the Severn Embryonic Technologies Scheme, that provide the most value for the regional economy and unlock business potential. In order to deliver support products and services to businesses, it funds and manages the Business Link network across the region.

More information can be found at www.southwestrda.org.uk

IT Power  is a leading renewable energy and climate change advisory company with a 28 year track record gained from completing 1,000+ renewable energy projects in over 100 countries.   The company is headquartered in the UK with offices worldwide.

IT Power has 15+ years experience in Ocean in energyincluding the development of the first offshore tidal stream device (Seaflow, 2003) and co-ordinating the development of the PS100 tidal device installed in the Humber Estuary.   The Company was recently contracted to co-ordinate a €15m European marine development project    

IT Powers marine activities from the UK to the Pacific include resource assessments, design, due diligence, project management, site surveys, EIA’s and carbon analysis.  (www.itpower.co.uk)

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