Friday, 30 May 2025

By the mid 2030s, the Forth and Tay region will be home to a dramatic expansion of offshore wind development, manufacture, installation, and operation, from the existing one operational wind farm up to potentially another nine wind farms which could equate to 18GW or 36% of the UK’s planned offshore wind fleet. 

The Universities of Edinburgh and Dundee have partnered with Forth & Tay Offshore wind cluster to incorporate universities research strengths in offshore wind engineering into the Forth and Tay region to address challenges in the design and manufacture of fixed and floating wind systems, the development of a workforce and the delivery of large offshore energy infrastructure projects. 

This Place Based Impact Accelerator Account (PBIAA) aims to accelerate and grow the impact of academic research into the Offshore wind in the Forth and Tay area, particularly in the areas of offshore and geotechnical engineering, manufacturing, operations and maintenance as well as the environmental and social aspects of offshore wind. The £2.5m project is looking to work with companies from across the supply chain to help resolve commercial challenges.

On Friday 30th May we are launching the PBIAA project and hosting a launch event in Edinburgh at Edinburgh Futures Institute building where we hope to be able to explain to organisations of every size, how you can get involve in the project and access academic research into Offshore Wind.

Agenda  

• 10.00 Welcome and Introductions
• 10.15 What is a PBIAA, why Forth and Tay
• 10.30 Hear from others on how they have worked with and benefited from working with the University
• 10.45 The aims and objectives of PBIAA
• 11.00 Initial project exemplars
• 11.15 How you can you get involved
• 11.30 Networking – Teas & Coffees

Please register below to attend this launch event!

To book, "Register as a Guest" or "Login" if you have a University of Edinburgh UUN. Successful registration will be confirmed via email. For assistance, please contact us on eievents@ei.ed.ac.uk.

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