The Scottish Government-backed Turbulence in Marine Environments project has become a commercial turbulence measurement and assessment service to tidal developers.
The service will offer measuring, classifying and predicting the effect of turbulence on resource assessment, device design/operation and array yield using a combination of modelling, field measurement and theoretical analysis.
The TiME project was delivered as a consortium comprising ABPmer, ITPower, Ocean Array Systems and Partrac in association with technology supplier Rockand Scientific.
Partrac technical director Kevin Black said: “We are really excited to share the experience gained, lessons learned and findings from the TiME project with the market.
“We can now offer a singular cost-effective but rigorous measurement campaign, data analyses and performance assessment methodology available to anyone.”
The project collected turbulence data at two commercially relevant Scottish tidal power sites: the Sound of Jura and the Inner Sound.
The technical outputs from the TiME project have been disseminated in the form of a number of best practice guidance documents at the the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult’s Wave and Tidal Knowledge Network.
Image: Pentland Firth (Caithness Chamber)
Tidal research goes commercial
Turbulence in Marine Environments research programme offered as a service
By EBS