WaveFarmer and TidalFarmer, DNV GL’s array planning tools were launched yesterday at the RenewableUK Wave and Tidal Conference in Belfast.
These are the world’s first marine energy planning tools to be made commercially available, which allow users to model wave and tidal energy converters when operating in ‘farms’ of multiple devices.
WaveFarmer and TidalFarmer are the outcomes of the Energy Technologies Institute’s (ETI) ground-breaking £8m PerAWaT (Performance Assessment of Wave and Tidal Array systems) R&D project. Led by DNV GL, the project has established, verified, validated and independently tested a suite of numerical tools for analysing wave and tidal energy arrays.
The following video is a presentation of the planning tools:
Offshore WIND Staff, February 27, 2014