SEASTAR: SUSTAINABLE EUROPEAN SUBSEA TIDAL ARRAY

在SEASTAR项目中，协调员Nova Innovation （Nova）带领一个世界级的团队在奥克尼的EMEC Fall of Warness潮汐站点交付了一个4兆瓦的16个潮汐流涡轮机阵列，这是世界上第一个大型潮汐农场，它将包含比目前部署的更多的潮汐涡轮机。SEASTAR将利用Nova久经考验的M100D涡轮机，该涡轮机是与项目合作伙伴SKF合作开发的，SKF是世界领先的旋转设备供应商。该项目建立在Nova的六涡轮设得兰潮汐阵列（世界上第一个海上潮汐阵列）的成功基础上，该阵列是由SEASTAR合作伙伴SKF和Wood等团队在H2020 EnFAIT项目下交付的。SEASTAR由全球领先的可再生能源律师事务所欧华律师事务所（DLA Piper）以及可持续发展、保险、许可、通信、工程和海上作业方面的专家加入。SEASTAR将首次展示有效交付大型潮汐农场所需的工业系统、制造和操作技术。它将产生并分享关于关键同意风险的可转移知识，降低未来全球大型阵列的风险。它将通过降低成本、证明性能和提高大型潮汐农场的保险来提高潮汐能的可融资性。SEASTAR代表了潮汐能的阶跃变化。大规模工业制造、运营和维护技术将首次应用于潮汐发电站的整个生命周期，从设计、采购、生产、运输、编组、部署、调试、运营和退役。16涡轮机农场提供了独特的机会，以解决关键的环境证据差距，并在规模上开发具有成本效益，可靠的监测解决方案，以加快许可和消除未来大型潮汐农场的障碍。

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.