Copernicus Marine Service USE CASES
Met-Ocean conditions for the BIMEP Marine Renewable Energy test site Powered by IHCantabria
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Overview
BiMEP test site and IHCantabria Research Institute collaborate within the 'TRL+' project which final objective is to develop innovative tools supporting marine renewable energy developers from a conceptual to a real farm (http://trlplus.com/ ). 'TRL+' is a spanish national research project (RTC-2015- 3836-3) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (MINECO). BiMEP test site is an open sea area in front of the coast of Armintza (Basque Country), where renewable marine energy devices are set up for testing the harnessing of energy from renewable marine sources. BiMEP and IH Cantabria have developed a Prediction System which objective is to forecast wind, wave, currents and sea level conditions to be considered in the planning of marine operations at BiMEP. In addition, the Prediction System feeds the Decision Support System to be developed in 'TRL+'. The Copernicus Marine Service physics and wave models for the Iberia-Biscay-Irish area are used as forcing conditions in the very high resolution model developed in the TRL+ project.
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The Biscay Marine Energy Platform (BiMEP) is an open-sea facility to support research, technical testing and commercial demonstration of pre-commercial prototype utility-scale floating Marine Renewable Energy Devices. The site was found to offer favourable wave conditions for the testing of devices and relatively low exposure to potentially damaging extreme waves. The site is located 1.7 km from the coast of Arminza, Basque Country, Northern Spain, in the Atlantic Ocean between 50 and 90 m water depth. The Prediction System developed here aims at forecasting wind, wave, currents and sea level conditions to be considered in the planning of marine operations at BiMEP.
The Environmental Hydraulics Institute of Cantabria (IHCantabria) is a joint research centre that carries out research, knowledge transfer and training of specialists in the fields of fresh and saltwater. BiMEP test site is a fully developed open sea test site located in the Basque Country. It offers the capacity for testing a wide variety of marine renewable energy devices.
Products used
ATLANTIC-IBERIAN BISCAY IRISH- OCEAN WAVE ANALYSIS AND FORECAST
ATLANTIC-IBERIAN BISCAY IRISH- OCEAN PHYSICS ANALYSIS AND FORECAST
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Benefits for users Useful links
The access to Copernicus Marine Biscay Marine Energy Platform (BiMEP) Environmental Monitoring Service products IH Cantabria Official Website and services, makes possible the development of use cases such as TRL+ DSS, which can be used for marine operation planning, coastal management and marine renewable energy applications.
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