Overview

Ricardo's 20,000 man-years of product development experience is a unique resource for the Clean Energy sector.  High levels of product innovation have produced many new approaches to renewable energy production, energy storage and efficiency improvement.  Many of these developments have taken much longer than expected to get to market and, having done so, do not deliver acceptable reliability levels.  Others have failed to reach the market place at all.
 
Ricardo is now working with system developers, their investors, utilities and Government agencies across a wide range of Clean Energy sectors:

• wind turbines (including the gearbox)
• wave & tidal power generators
• compressed air energy storage systems
• flywheel energy storage systems
• micro CHP systems
• fuel cells and hydrogen infrastructure
• batteries
• application of biofuels

Ricardo offers a full range of services to address the needs of this sector, bringing rigorous processes and validated approaches from the automotive field to deliver improved products:

• technical due diligence
• product development planning
• design, design analysis and prototyping
• development testing and field trailing
• quality improvement, cost reduction and design for manufacture
• validation and launch