Prof Henry F Jeffrey

Head of Policy and Innovation Group

The University of Edinburgh

Henry Jeffrey is a specialist in marine energy roadmaps, action plans and strategies. He is a co-director for the UK SuperGen (Offshore Renewable Energy) project and heads the Policy and Innovation Group in the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Energy Systems.

Henry chairs the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) Ocean Energy Joint Programme (JP) and collaborates on numerous European and International marine energy projects. From 2017-2021 he held a position as the Chairperson of the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Ocean Energy Systems (OES) programme, which is a government to government policy group responsible for supporting knowledge exchange and collaboration between countries and organisations active in the ocean energy sector.

Henry Jeffrey is a specialist in marine energy roadmaps, action plans and strategies. He is a co-director for the UK SuperGen (Offshore Renewable Energy) project and heads the Policy and Innovation Group in the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Energy Systems.

Henry chairs the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) Ocean Energy Joint Programme (JP) and collaborates on numerous European and International marine energy projects. From 2017-2021 he held a position as the Chairperson of the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Ocean Energy Systems (OES) programme, which is a government to government policy group responsible for supporting knowledge exchange and collaboration between countries and organisations active in the ocean energy sector.

International policy requirements for Ocean Energy developments to achieve ambitious targets for deployment – An IEA Vision

While the role that mature renewable energy technologies, such as wind and solar, will play in this global energy transition are well understood, the IEA ocean energy roadmap and vision outlines and forecasts the role that the wave and tidal stream sectors have to play in accelerating the delivery of a global Net Zero future.

The objective of this presentation is to outline an international roadmap, where the individual and shared responsibilities of the leading countries in the development of wave and tidal stream technologies is quantified with the aim of achieving a globally commercial wave and tidal stream sector. Should the IEA Roadmap target of 300GW of ocean energy by 2050 be achieved, the IEA Roadmap targets forecasts the following associated benefits: - The creation of over 680,000 jobs; - The generation of over $340 billion in Gross Value Added (GVA) to national and international economies; - A reduction of over 500 million tons of carbon emissions.

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