OES Annual Report 2012 - Ocean Energy Systems
OES Annual Report 2012 - Ocean Energy Systems
OES Annual Report 2012 - Ocean Energy Systems
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04 / COUNTRY REPORTS<br />
Relevant Documents Released<br />
The BOREAS final report that describes the assessment of the wave and tidal energy potential is available<br />
online (www.belspo.be).<br />
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT<br />
Government Funded R&D<br />
The FlanSea project, which aims at designing and developing a wave energy converter for the low wave<br />
energy in the Belgian part of the North Sea and the moderate wave climates further in the North Sea, will<br />
reach the deployment phase in 2013. The project partners are DEME Blue <strong>Energy</strong>, Cloostermans, Harbour of<br />
Ostend, Electrawinds, Spiromatic, Contec and 4 research groups from Ghent University.<br />
FlanSea (Flanders Electricity From the Sea)<br />
point absorber technology<br />
www.flansea.eu<br />
Laminaria has developed a multidirectional surge device for which they got some support from the IWT<br />
(Flemish Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology). Tank testing has been performed and they are<br />
patent holders.<br />
Participation in Collaborative International Projects<br />
Ghent University participates in the WECWakes project, funded by Hydralab in order to assess wave energy<br />
converter farm interactions in a physical wave flume (€225 thousands).<br />
TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION<br />
New Developments<br />
Mermaid has received the concession for their plans to build a combined wind and wave energy park in the<br />
7th and most northern part of the Domain Concession Zone. The idea is to use synergies of offshore wind<br />
and wave energy as a way of overcoming certain obstacles for implementing a wave energy park. A total<br />
amount of 20MW of wave energy is projected along with the 450MW of wind energy. The wind energy is<br />
to be installed by 2017. The wave Mermaid is a partnership that consists of 65% of OTARY RS and 35% of<br />
Electrabel (GDF SUEZ). OTARY is a collaboration of Aspiravi, DEME, Electrawinds, Nuhma, Power@Sea, Rent-<br />
A-Port, Socofe and SRIW Environment.<br />
Another interesting development is that the Belgian company DBE (Deme Blue <strong>Energy</strong>) together with DP<br />
Marine <strong>Energy</strong> has an agreement for lease from the Crown Estate for a 100MW tidal project off the northwest<br />
coast of Antrim at Fair Head in Northern Ireland and for a 30MW tidal project 8km off the tip of the Rhinns<br />
of Islay in Scotland.
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