Event: ENERGYinTRANSPORTATION2017Date: SaturdayOctober21,2017 Place: Athens,Hellas

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George Lavidas, Ph.D, Renewable Energy & Ocean

Engineering

Title: CERES Global Senior Consultant, Renewable Energy and Numerical Modelling

email: g.lavidas@ceresglobal.in / glavidas@gmail.com �

Presentationtitle: Combining Offshore Renewable Energies and Addressing Variability

Decarbonization of the Greek energy system is a vital component for energy security, independence and economic growth. Renewable energies are a significant component for the energy transition. However, to achieve higher renewable penetration and reduction of variability, Greek indigenous resources must be properly quantified and analyzed. Greece has numerous islands that depend predominately on conventional fossil fuels with electricity, fuel and transportation costs often subsidized by the State resulting in significant economic burdens. Small islands can benefit from adaptation of renewable energies to enhance their energy independence and promote sustainable development. Wind and wave resources differ in availability, in terms of energy production wind turbines can be estimated quite straightforward, on the other hand wave energy converters (WECs) require complex considerations. Based on regional focus different WECs are suitable leading to different production profiles, with WEC selection highly dependent on dominant metocean conditions. This study quantifies the temporal overlap by offshore wind and wave converters, using wind and wave data. Overlap of energy production leads to robust results concerning the potential synergies by offshore devices.

Event: ENERGYinTRANSPORTATION2017Date: SaturdayOctober21,2017 Place: Athens,Hellas

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CV:

Dr. George Lavidas is a Senior Consultant in Renewable Energies and Numerical Modelling at CERES Global (2015-present), a niche consultancy on climate modelling, oceanography, coastal engineering, and renewable energy resources. He obtained his Ph.D at the University of Edinburgh (2012-2016), Institute for Energy Systems with a scholarship by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) on ocean modelling and wave energy. He also holds an M.Sc. in Renewable Engineering from Heriot-Watt University (2011) and a B.Eng. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences (2008), Chania.

Dr. Lavidas research interests are ocean modelling, resource assessments (wave & wind), wave-current interactions, modelling of wave energy device arrays, extreme waves, offshore wind energy, Climate Change, environmental impact of waves, coastal protection, and wave statistics. He has worked with governmental and industrial partners on offshore energies and forecasting techniques for marine and nearshore structures. His consulting work is a mixture of academic and industrial projects with a strong focus on applied engineering, and on detailed climate techno-economic issues such as Global Market Analysis for Ocean Energies, Cost-Benefit-Analysis (CBA), LCoE/CoE, and assessment of market push and pull mechanisms for offshore (wind, wave, tidal) systems.

Dr. Lavidas research is published at international journals and conferences, he was an invited speaker on numerical wave modelling techniques, has been a Teaching Assistant on Fluid Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering, Newtonian physics and has supervised B.Eng.-M.Eng. students. He is a recognized Journal reviewer at: Renewable Energy, Ocean Engineering, Marine Energy, and Applied Energy. From 2014-2016 he contributed to the SET-Plan of ocean energies for the Technology Platform Ocean (TPOcean) Committee. From 2016 he reviews HORIZON 2020 projects on topics of Blue Growth and Low Carbon Energy Systems. Since 2017 he is a member of EMODnet, and a Work Package (WP3) Leader representing InnoEnergy in the pedagogical evaluation of a Ph.D curriculum developed by a consortium of 14 Universities and 3 SMEs, also contributing to course contents on “Innovation & Entrepreneurship” .