WHOI Center for Marine Robotics 2nd Annual Marine Robotics Entrepreneurship Forum: Panel 1 (Emerging Markets and Market Trends: The view from Industry)
1. “Necessity is the Mother of
Invention”
Energy Market Trends:
The New Energy Perspective
Jay A. Borkland, PG
APEX Companies, LLC
and
Tufts University, School of Engineering
2. Traditional Markets: OIL AND GAS
Known & Well Developed Industry with Continuing Challenges:
Always a Need for Technology and Innovation
3. Growth Markets:
CABLES, PIPELINES, POWER PLANTS
Changes in the Energy Market are Driving the Need for
Re-habbing Old and Installing New Infrastructure
5. Recent Cable Survey Through UXO Field:
Cost 5X Estimate ($150k est. à $750k actual)
Ample Opportunity for the
Application of Technology
Innovation to Automate and
Drive Down Costs
Need for Innovation = Opportunity
6. “The Early Bird Catches the Wind”
The Newest Opportunity:
Offshore Wind
Market Case:
Promise; Challenge; Opportunity.
7. WIND POWER: FROM THE OCEAN
THE FUTURE ENERGY JUST AROUND THE CORNER
8. In The Beginning
there were
Danish……
…..Windmills
1991
Modern Offshore Wind Comes Online in the 1990’s
10. European Market:
• Dozens of Wind Farms;
• 10’s of Billions of Euros;
• 1,000’s of Workers
• Still Developing
Transformative
11. Why It Will Happen in the U.S.
Source: NREL – National Renewable Energy Laboratory
12. 14.5 GW Coal-Fired Power Plants
Retired in 2015 in U.S.
Source: International
Business Times 3-9-16
NREL
Offshore Wind Power
Generation
Potential in U.S. = 16 GW
by 2030
13. Size of US Market Potential:
• Atlantic = 9-10 Windfarms x $2B-$3B Each
• Gulf = 3-5 Windfarms x $2B-$3B Each
• Pacific = 5-7 Windfarms x $2B-$3B Each
$34 - $66 Billion
Timing: 2016 – 2030 Development
Ø Major Problem for
US is Cost of Power
Ø Must Be Cost
Competitive
14. SURVEYS, STUDIES, INSPECTIONS
• Regulations Borrowed
from Oil & Gas (BOEM)
• Translation Issues
• Creates Opportunity for
Technical Innovation to
Reduce Cost
• Major Cost is Site Characterization
and Site Preparation:
16. Specific Needs Example:
Sub-Bottom Mapping
Ø For In-Sediment Hazard
Identification
§ New England Glaciated Terrain;
§ Potential for Boulders & Cobbles;
§ Challenging Engineering Conditions
Ø For “Bank-ability” and Regulatory
Certainty
Ø Currently Ultra High Resolution
Seismic (UHRS) Streamer to Augment
Sub-bottom Profiler
Ø Currently Expensive – Need to cut
costs.
17. Immediate Need:
Ø Develop Quick & Lower Cost
Sub-Bottom Mapping Technique;
Ø Build off of Sub-Bottom Profiler
and Seismic Streamer
Technology;
Ø Goal: Identify Boulder / Large
Cobble Sized Objects in
Sediments;
Ø Goal: Identify Detailed
Geological Layering.
18. Ø Survey Vessel PSO
(Protected Species
Observer);
Ø Acoustic Species
Identification Systems;
Ø Acoustic Network
Modelling for Species
Mapping.
Marine Biotic Mapping & Avoidance
Opportunities:
From: SCOR
19. • High Resolution, Full
Sonification;
• Real Time / Full Time
Data Collection;
• Automation and
Streamlined Processing.
Construction Management
and O&M Needs:
20. Ø Drones for AUV and ASV
Automated Mapping;
Ø Autonomous Underwater
Vehicles;
Ø Autonomous Surface
Vehicles;
Ø Robotics.
OSW Technology Opportunities
