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dedicated to the delivery of tidal energy and committed to accelerating its future uptake. This alignment of interest sets FORWARD-2030 on course to have a meaningful impact as we build towards large scale commercially viable tidal energy projects.” Orbital will advance the company’s pioneering floating tidal turbine design, with support from technical partner SKF, who will design and build an optimised fully integrated power train solution, designed for volume manufacture. The next generation turbine will be deployed at EMEC’s Fall of Warness tidal test site off Eday in Orkney, where the company already installed the O2 floating turbine earlier in summer 2021. “FORWARD-2030 will show what the energy
system of the future looks like by combining offshore renewable generation, with onshore wind and EMEC’s onshore hydrogen and storage facilities – all done in the novel context of an island grid. The project represents a major step forward for the commercialisation of tidal energy,” Rob Flynn, Commercial Manager of EMEC said, “and we are delighted it has received this significant stamp of approval from the European Commission.”
META The team behind Wales’ national marine energy
Above: Forward 2030 is a pan-European consortium project, set up to accelerate the commercial deployment of floating tidal energy
SCOTTISH TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPER, ORBITAL Marine Power, will lead a pan-European consortium to deliver the €26.7 million FORWARD-2030 project, set up to accelerate the commercial deployment of floating tidal energy. The partners will deliver several technical innovations targeting increased rated power, enhanced turbine performance and array integration solutions.
Below: Wales’ national marine test facility META is located in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire Copyright Phillip Roberts/ Shutterstock
Commenting on the award, Oliver Wragg, Orbital’s Commercial Director, said: “This endorsement of the Orbital technology by the European Commission is a huge vote of confidence in our capability to deliver commercially viable tidal energy. We now have a focused and highly experienced consortium
test facility, META, has recently welcomed its first deployment in its pre-consented test sites in Milford Haven. This first deployment of a new open-source tool, to measure high quality turbulence data, supports the industry need for META as an easily accessible testing hub for research and innovation. The tool has been developed by Swansea
University under the SELKIE project; an EU Ireland- Wales programme developing a streamlined commercialisation pathway for the Marine Renewable Energy (MRE) Industry. This project led by a consortium of six partner organisations brings together academia and industry through the development of open-source, multi-use tools and models to reduce MRE costs, as well as developing a cross-border innovation network to increase and diversify MRE businesses in Wales and Ireland. The tool, a converging acoustic doppler current profiler (C-ADCP) captures high resolution 3D flow velocity allowing the measurement of turbulence at peak flow conditions and provides much higher quality data than a traditional (diverging) ADCP. This data will be beneficial in growing scientific understanding and characterisation of the fluid dynamics of tidal stream sites. It has been designed to be easy to deploy and recover
through the use of a deployment raft and self-recovery acoustic release system, and so greatly reduces the traditional deployment costs of expensive vessel hire. A quarter-scale model of this tool has been
deployed at one of META’s Phase 1 Quayside sites, Criterion Jetty, to test the deployment and retrieval methodology as well as some sensor testing. The
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