Professor Deborah Greaves talking about how wind turbines are taking over and producing more power than coal, on the Engineering Stage, at New Scientist Live 2018
2017 was a record year for renewable energy with wind farms producing more power than coal on 263 days, the UK seeing its first full day without any coal power and the tumbling price of offshore wind farms. How much further could the UK go? The answers lie out at sea, with a host of new innovations bringing gargantuan wind turbines, wave energy and tidal power. Renewable energy engineer Professor Deborah Greaves describes how the offshore renewable energy is set to transform the power industry in ways that seemed unthinkable until just recently. Deborah Greaves is Head of the School of Engineering, Professor of Ocean Engineering and Director of the COAST Laboratory at the University of Plymouth with previous appointments at Oxford, UCL and the University of Bath. Her research interests include marine and offshore renewable energy, and physical and numerical modelling of wave-structure interaction. She has led many national and international research projects concerning offshore renewable energy (ORE) in collaboration with industrial and academic partners and in 2017 was appointed as the new ORE Supergen Leade Deborah Greaves is Headof the School of Engineering and of the School of Computing, Electronics andMathematics, Professor of Ocean Engineering and Director of the COAST (Coastal,Ocean and Sediment Transport) Laboratory at the University of Plymouth, she isBoard Member and Inaugural Chair for PRIMaRE (the Partnership for Research InMarine Renewable Energy, ). From 2000 until February 2008, she was alecturer in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at theUniversity of Bath and held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship forsix years. Before that, she was alecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UCL for five years aftercompleting her DPhil at Oxford University, and prior to that she graduated inCivil Engineering from Bristol University and worked as a civil engineer forfour years.
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