European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has produced new guidelines to stimulate the development of wave and tidal power systems.
The EMEC initiative was supported with funding worth around £400,000 from the Scottish Government and the UK Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.
The aim is to establish draft standards and guidelines that are “useful, relevant and authoritative and cover all aspects of the new and rapidly evolving marine energy industry”.
The new guidelines, to be released by the end of this month, provide a means to assess the energy potential of the marine environment and offer a blueprint in how to calculate the performance of wave and tidal energy machines. Plus, there are sections that give developers a way to assess the reliability and maintainability of their devices, and their ability to survive in harsh sea conditions. It also provides an insight into devices’ deployment at sea and eventual decommissioning.
These guidelines provide a means to compare the capabilities of the many technologies currently under development.
EMEC technical director John Griffiths mentioned that the centre involved 150 people for this initiative. Written and developed under EMEC’s leadership, the guidelines are being published by BSI British Standards, the UK’s national standards organisation.
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