The Anonymous Widower

WES Starts Testing Combined Floating Wind And Wave Energy Models

The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on offshoreWIND.biz.

This is the sub-heading.

Wave Energy Scotland (WES) has started a series of tank tests of floating wind and wave energy structures at the University of Edinburgh’s FloWave facility to explore the potential benefits the synergy between the two technologies could bring.

These two paragraphs introduce the technology.

The tank tests currently being completed by WES use sea states which are representative of one of the future floating wind lease sites on the west coast of Scotland, leased through the ScotWind program and which has an appropriate water depth and wave resource for large-scale wave energy exploitation.

The physical model used for the testing incorporates multiple identical wave energy absorbers mounted onto a semi-submerged, triangular floating platform.

Have we got enough research facilities to test devices like these?

I can find these.

• Qinetiq
• University of Southampton
• Dumbarton
• National Physical Laboratory

With Edinburgh, that makes five.

September 13, 2023 - Posted by AnonW | Energy | Edinburgh University, Offshore Wind Power, Research, Scotland, ScotWind Leasing, Wave Power, Wind Power