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Project Code [22/NCF/EI/11329]
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Project title
Floating Offshore Measurement Platform
Primary Funding Agency
Science Foundation Ireland
Co-Funding Organisation(s)
Lead Organisation
Dundalk Institute of Technology
Lead Applicant
Not listed
Project Abstract
Offshore renewable energy resources are vast and are largely underexploited. This is in part due to the harsh operating environment and a lack of critical key measured data to inform system designs. This project focuses on the development of a floating offshore measurement platform. The floating measurement device will boast a range of state-of-the-art measurement techniques to measure wind, wave and tidal energy resource characteristics. The system proposed will have a considerable impact on the rate of development of marine renewable energy. For example the offshore renewable energy targets set out by the Irish government are ambitious and will require ways to accelerate marine energy development. The technologies used to measure offshore renewable energy resource characteristics, in their own right, have been deployed and used for measuring energy resource characteristics in the past but not as a complete floating offshore energy measurement device i.e. lidars, ADCPs and wave buoys have been used independently to measure wind, tidal and wave energy resource characteristics respectively. The development of the floating offshore measurement platform will play a pivotal role in the development of marine renewable energy. Furthermore, the system will be easily deployed and will be cost effective.
Grant Approved
�303,438.00
Research Hub
Climate Change
Research Theme
3. Climate Solutions, Transition Management and Opportunities
Initial Projected Completion Date
30/11/2024