International research projects RiaSoR2 and Monitor have joined forces to organise an ocean energy reliability workshop to be held alongside the European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference in Italy.
The Oceanera-net and Interreg Atlantic Area funded projects are collaborating to share learnings with the aim of supporting the progression of wave and tidal energy.
The workshop will be held on 3 September 2019, from 15:30-19:00 at the Renaissance Hotel Mediterraneo, in Napoli.
Ocean energy developers and other interested stakeholders are invited to attend.
The workshop will include a range of activities including monitoring and reliability of wave energy converters (WECs) as well as a multi-model investigation of tidal energy converter (TEC) reliability.
Michael Togneri Monitor lead partner said: “Working in collaboration to bring these two reliability focused projects together, provides an excellent opportunity to share learnings and ultimately support the development of ocean energy technologies.”
RiaSoR2 lead partner Johannes Huffmeier said: “RiaSoR2 aims to enable developers to validate their findings and establish a practical, condition-based monitoring platform to prepare for future arrays, where big data handling and processing will be vital to drive down operational expenditure.
“This workshop marks the end of the RiaSoR2 project and we look forward to engaging with the ocean energy industry to discuss the outputs and share the learnings.”