PLAT-I Feasibility & Validation - Floating Inshore Tidal & River Energy Platform

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Sustainable Marine Energy Limited (SME) is seeking funding from the Innovate UK Energy Catalyst - Early Stage- to carry out detailed design and test tank validation of a novel floating platform for the capture of renewableenergy from tidal and river currents. The primary project output will be a complete validated design of thePLAT-I (I:Inshore) platform ready for first full scale production. The first units will be demonstrated in 2 pilotdeployments in late 2017 - one in Orkney and another in Singapore - with plans for subsequent arrayexpansion. The PLAT-I platform will be integrated with other innovative system elements - mooring system,rock-bolt subsea anchoring and next generation in-stream turbine from Schottel Hydro - to form a completecommercial product offering. The PLAT-I system exhibits the potential for a transformative impact in UK andinternationally as it will be specifically designed for deployment in less energetic, lower flow deploymentlocations that have hereto not been considered to be viable in terms of strength of onsite tidal or river flowresource.