TIGER

Project: TIGER (Tidal Stream Industry Energiser)

Timescale: 2019 – 2023 (47 months)

Funder: Interreg France (Channel) England Programme

Funding: ERDF funding € 29 million / Total project budget € 45.4 million

Project website: www.InterregTiger.com

Project overview

The TIGER project will demonstrate that tidal stream energy is a maturing industry, capable of achieving an accelerated cost reduction pathway.

The project will build cross-border partnerships to develop new technologies, test and demonstrate up to 8 MW of new tidal capacity at a number of locations around the Channel region, and use the learning from this development to make a stronger, cost-effective case for tidal energy as part of the France/UK energy mix.

The project is the largest ever to be approved not only by the France (Channel) England Programme but by any Interreg programme.

TIGER webinars

EMEC has supported the delivery of six supply chain webinars and two meet the buyer events for TIGER. Available to view watch again here.

The events cover the following topics:

• Subsea cables and connectors
• Tidal energy opportunities for steel manufacturing and supply chain learning
• Growing the supply chain for cost effective reliable composite blades, tooling and sensor design for tidal turbines
• Anti-fouling and anti-corrosion requirements of tidal turbines
• Reliability & condition monitoring of tidal turbines
• Onshore and offshore mobilisation and logistics

Partners

• Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, Cornwall, UK (Project lead)
• University of Exeter, Cornwall and Devon, UK
• University of Plymouth, Devon, UK
• University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
• Cambrian Offshore South West, Cornwall, UK
• Orbital Marine Power, Edinburgh, UK
• European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), Orkney, UK
• EDF Hydro, Rennes, France
• Normandie Hydroliennes, France
• SEENEOH, Bordeaux, France
• Bretagne Developpement Innovation, France
• Hydroquest, France
• MorbihanHydroEnergies SASU, France
• University of Caen Normandy, France
• University Le Havre Normandy, France
• University Bretagne Sud, France
• Minesto AB, Sweden
• QED Naval, Edinburgh, UK

Project news

• Decemeber 2021: Isle of Wight tidal power project gains consent
• November 2020: Testing the power performance of marine energy devices
• October 2019: Game-changing tidal energy project approved for Channel regions