Wave Energy Demonstration at Utility Scale to Enable Arrays - WEDUSEA

由爱尔兰波浪能开发商Ocean Energy领导的WEDUSEA将在苏格兰奥克尼的欧洲海洋能源中心（EMEC）展示一个并网的1 MW OE 35浮动波浪能转换器（称为OE浮标）。这项严格的技术和环境演示将在奥克尼的EMEC Billia Croo波浪试验场进行，为期2年，在大西洋波浪条件下进行，其结果直接影响政策，技术标准，公众看法和投资者信心。该项目将证明该技术正处于符合欧盟SET计划目标的成本降低轨道上，并将成为更大商业阵列规模和进一步工业化的垫脚石。该行动将整合子组件，如系泊和PTO-提高效率，可靠性，可扩展性，可持续性和技术的循环性。工作计划的综合行动预计将使该技术的LCOE从361欧元/MWh降至245欧元/MWh，减少32%。对于20 MW阵列，LCOE将从185欧元/MWh降至127欧元/MWh。该项目有三个明确的阶段，第一阶段是初始设计阶段，导致Go/No Go，第二阶段是示范，预计基线设备将在部署期间产生超过1，650 MWh的电力，第三阶段是商业化和传播，这将看到结果的资本化和利用。海洋能源和其他财团公司将通过新的创新、产品和服务积极利用这些成果。结果将予以传播，以提供给环境数据库和IEC电工标准。这一行动将使波浪能超越最先进的水平，建立在合作伙伴在先前欧盟项目中的经验基础上，使可靠的设备阵列能够实现2030年DG-ENER海上可再生能源战略中规定的1GW目标。计划中的参与将创造更多的公众认知，赋予决策者权力和信息，并降低大规模投资的风险，以实现2050年的目标。

WEDUSEA led by Irish Wave Energy Developer, Ocean Energy, will demonstrate a grid connected 1MW OE35 floating wave energy converter (known as the OE Buoy) at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney, Scotland. This rigorous technical and environmental demonstration will happen over a 2-year period at EMEC’s Billia Croo wave test site in Orkney, in Atlantic wave conditions with outcomes directly impacting policy, technical standards, public perception, and investor confidence. The project will demonstrate that the technology is on a cost reduction trajectory in line with the EU SET Plan targets and will be a steppingstone to larger commercial array scale up and further industrialisation. The action will integrate subcomponents such as moorings and PTOs - improving efficiency, reliability, scalability, sustainability, and circularity of the technology. The combined actions of the work programme are expected to reduce the LCOE for the technology from €361/MWh to €245/MWh, a 32% reduction. For a 20MW array the LCOE would reduce from €185/MWh to €127/MWh. The project has 3 clear phases, phase 1 the initial design phase leading into a Go/No Go, phase 2 Demonstration in which it is expected that the baseline device will generate in excess of 1,650 MWh over the deployment and Phase 3 Commercialisation and Dissemination which sees the capitalisation and exploitation of the results. Ocean Energy and other consortium companies will actively exploit the results through new innovations, products, and services. The results will be disseminated to feed both environmental databases and IEC electrotechnical standards. This action will take wave energy beyond the state of the art, building on the partners experience in prior EU projects enabling arrays of reliable devices to achieve the 1GW target set out in the 2030 DG-ENER Offshore Renewable Energy Strategy. Planned engagement will create more public perception, empower, and inform policy makers and de-risk larger scale investments to meet the 2050 targets.