Carpower prepares test site in Portugal for offshore HiWave-5 installations
CorPower Ocean has completed substation and site preparation work in Portugal prior to offshore installations for its main grid connected HiW-5 demonstration wave power project.
The site, located on the coast of Agusadora, south of Viana do Castelo, is now ready for agricultural installation, the Swedish company said.
The integrated work package with local supply chain partners is based on Horizontal Directional Perception (HDD) for cable routing pre-installation.
“Analyzing our local partners, we have identified a more effective installation process in horizontal directions to pre-route cables at the correct depth under coastal dunes as we address the impact on local habitat.” The Managing Director of CorPower Ocean in Portugal said Miguel Silva.
“This method avoids trenches by allowing the cable to run from the onshore substation located inside the dunes to the offshore substation across the beach. The chosen approach avoids the use of excavations and open trenches, minimizing inconvenience to the local community and tourists.
CorPower Ocean’s next-generation commercial-scale C4 wave energy converter (WEC) is being built in Portugal and Sweden.
Working with several utility companies, it will be used as part of a set of four systems.
In preparation for the upcoming offshore deployment, CorPower Ocean has partnered with international marine energy research and development WavEC Offshore Renewables to develop a robust marine ecosystem monitoring system.
“A state-of-the-art environmental monitoring system was deployed at the HighWa-5 test site, 4 km off the coast of Agusadora. These instruments, including F-pod and hydrophones, recording technologies and baseline measurements that are periodically retrieved to assess our acoustic profile before and after the offshore installation. said by Henrique VillarProject Manager at CorPower Ocean.
“Monitoring campaigns that our visual cetaceans are also not technologies that are impacts to ensure these monitorings are working. for our servers.
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