Overview

This talk will consist of several parts:

• ORE Catapult (background)
• Offshore Renewable Energy 101
• The need to look beyond electricity
• Maritime decarbonisation

Speaker

David Cooper, Regional Partnership Manager for Clean Maritime, Catapult

David Cooper is the Regional Partnership Manager for Clean Maritime at the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult. Based out of the Operations and Maintenance Centre of Excellence in Grimsby and working on projects across the UK to accelerate the decarbonisation of maritime operations.

He is working with partners to develop the National Clean Maritime Demonstration Hub, a port scale ecosystem that will provide a test bed for the technologies, regulation and infrastructure – including Hydrogen refuelling - required for vessels to operate on zero emission fuels.

David joined ORE Catapult in January 2021 after graduating from the University of Cardiff with a Masters in ‘Sustainable Energy and the Environment’. Prior to this he had worked as a science and maths teacher.

The material presented in this webinar has not been peer-reviewed. Any opinions are the presenter’s own and do not necessarily represent those of IChemE or the Aberdeen Members Group. The information is given in good faith but without any liability on the part of IChemE. 

Webinar archive

This webinar is free of charge and open to all to attend, but if you wish to access the slides and a recording to replay on demand then you will need to be a member of the Aberdeen Members Group.