WEDUSEA: Wave Energy Demonstration at Utility Scale to Enable Arrays

由爱尔兰波浪能源开发商海洋能源牵头的WEDUSEA将在苏格兰奥克尼的欧洲海洋能源试验场(EMEC)展示一种并网的1 MW OE35浮动波能转换器(称为OE浮标)。这一严格的技术和环境演示将在大西洋海浪条件下进行，为期两年，结果将直接影响政策、技术标准、公众看法和投资者信心。该项目将证明，该技术正处于与欧盟既定计划目标一致的成本降低轨道上，并将成为扩大商业阵列规模和进一步工业化的踏脚石。该行动将整合系泊和临时避让等子部件--提高技术的效率、可靠性、可伸缩性、可持续性和循环性。工作方案的综合行动预计将使该技术的LCOE从361欧元/兆瓦时降至245欧元/兆瓦时，降幅为32%。对于20兆瓦的阵列，LCOE将从185欧元/兆瓦时降低到127欧元/兆瓦时。该项目有三个明确的阶段，第一阶段是进入/不通过的初始设计阶段，第二阶段是预计基线设备在部署过程中将产生超过1650兆瓦时的电力，第三阶段是商业化和传播阶段，看到了成果的资本化和利用。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一成果。结果将分发给环境数据库和IEC电工标准。这一行动将使波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设定的1GW目标。计划中的参与将创造更多的公众认知，赋予政策制定者权力并为其提供信息，并降低实现2050年目标的大规模投资的风险。

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 Test Site (EMEC) in Orkney, Scotland. This rigorous technical and environmental demonstration will happen over a 2-year period 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.