SEASTAR: SUSTAINABLE EUROPEAN SUBSEA TIDAL ARRAY

在SEASTAR项目中，协调员Nova Innovation（Nova）领导一个世界级的团队，在奥克尼的EMEC Fall of Warness潮汐发电站提供一个由16台潮汐流涡轮机组成的4 MW阵列-这是世界上第一个大型潮汐发电场，其中包含的潮汐涡轮机将超过目前全球部署的潮汐涡轮机。SEASTAR将使用Nova的成熟M100 D涡轮机，该涡轮机是与项目合作伙伴SKF（世界领先的旋转设备供应商）合作开发的。该项目建立在Nova的六涡轮设得兰群岛潮汐阵列的成功基础上，该潮汐阵列是世界上第一个海上潮汐阵列，由包括SEASTAR合作伙伴SKF和Wood在内的团队在H2020 EnFAIT项目下交付。他们与可再生能源领域的全球领先律师事务所欧华律师事务所以及可持续发展、保险、同意、通信、工程和离岸业务方面的专家一起加入了SEASTAR。SEASTAR将首次展示高效交付大型潮汐发电场所需的工业系统、制造和运营技术。它将生成和共享关于关键同意风险的可转移知识，从而在全球范围内降低未来大型阵列的风险。它还将通过降低成本、提高性能和增强大型潮汐发电场的保险性来提高潮汐能的可投资性。SEASTAR代表了潮汐能的一个步骤变化。批量工业制造，运营和维护技术将首次应用于潮汐发电场的整个生命周期，从设计，采购，生产，运输，编组，部署，调试，运营和退役。16个涡轮机发电场提供了独特的机会，以解决关键的环境证据差距，并开发所需的规模经济，可靠的监测解决方案，以加快批准和消除未来大型潮汐发电场的障碍。

In the SEASTAR project, coordinator Nova Innovation (Nova) leads a world-class team to deliver a 4MW array of 16 tidal stream turbines at the EMEC Fall of Warness tidal site in Orkney - the world’s first large tidal farm, which will contain more tidal turbines than are currently deployed worldwide. SEASTAR will utilise Nova's well-proven M100D turbine, developed in partnership with project partner SKF - the world’s leading supplier of rotating equipment. The project builds on the success of Nova's six-turbine Shetland Tidal Array - the world's first offshore tidal array - which was delivered under the H2020 EnFAIT project by a team including SEASTAR partners SKF and Wood. They are joined in SEASTAR by DLA Piper, the leading global law firm in renewable energy, and by specialists in sustainability, insurance, consenting, communication, engineering and offshore operations. SEASTAR will demonstrate for the first time the industrial systems, manufacturing and operational techniques required to efficiently deliver a large tidal farm. It will generate and share transferable knowledge on key consenting risks, de-risking future large arrays globally. And it will improve the bankability of tidal energy by cutting costs, proving performance, and enhancing the insurability of large tidal farms. SEASTAR represents a step change for tidal energy. Volume industrial manufacturing, operation and maintenance techniques will be applied for the first time to the full lifecycle of a tidal farm, from design, procurement, production, shipping, marshalling, deployment, commissioning, operation and decommissioning. The 16-turbine farm provides unique opportunities to address critical environmental evidence gaps and develop the cost-effective, reliable monitoring solutions at scale required to accelerate permitting and remove barriers for future large tidal farms.