Resource Assessment, Forecast and WECs O&M strategies at DanWEC and beyond

This project will deliver detailed information of the environment conditions at the Danish Wave Energy Center (DanWEC) and an optimization of operations and maintenance (O&M) procedures, which will ultimately improve WEC´s operation and reduce WEC´s costs.

Particular, the proposed project has the following commercial and practical outcomes:

• Collecting, processing and analyzing wave buoy measured data (WP1).

• Gathering hindcast and forecast data from DHI (WP2).

• Validating DHI models against measured data (WP3).

• Defining Hanstholm wave climate harvesting practical experience from real sea WEC testing, cross-correlation time line of O&M activities with DHOs forecasting and hindcasting, defining timeline regarding long-term optimal WECs O&M procedures (WP4)

• Disseminating project findings to have the wave energy sector, the research community and to potential industrial customs (WP5).

• Ensuring successful project implementation and the progress of all project tasks as detailed in the Grant diagram (WP1).

Overall, the project provides insight into key-elements fostering the wave energy sector, which can also be relevant to well-established industries operating in Hanstholm area and beyond.