OES Annual Report 2012 - Ocean Energy Systems

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04 / COUNTRY REPORTS
Wave Energy demonstration in Denmark of Wavestar (left) and Foating Power Plant (right) at sea.
New and Ongoing Developments
Leancon Wave Energy is preparing to conduct real sea testing at a benign test site Nissum Bredning.
Resen Energy is designing, building and testing a grid connected 2 kW lever operated pivoting float, which is
to be tested initially at a benign site and later at DanWEC, Hanstholm.
Wave Dragon is developing a 1.5 MW demonstration device to be tested at DanWEC, Hanstholm. Previously,
it has been tested at Nissum Bredning.
Weptos has performed large scale lab testing of a complete machine and has started the process of designing
and constructing a full-scale device for testing at DanWEC, Hanstholm.
WaveEnergyFyn is testing at a benign site outside Frederikshavn with their CrestWing scale 1:5 (compared to a
planned deployment at DanWEC, Hanstholm).
WavePiston has conducted the first small scale tank testing and is developing a prototype for testing at
DanWEC, Hanstholm.
Participation in Collaborative International Projects
Denmark is participating in a number of international projects such as:
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The European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) aims to improve cooperation between national research
institutes (AAU from Denmark) from the current system of ad-hoc participation in joint projects to a future
system of collectively planning and implementing joint strategic research programmes.
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Denmark has considered joining the ERA-NET scheme with the aim to step up the cooperation and coordination
of research programmes in the field of ocean energy at national and/or regional level in the European Member
or Associated States through the networking of organisations involved in the support to ocean energy research
and development.
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The SI Ocean Project aims to identify and develop a wide consensus on the most effective way to tackle the
key barriers to delivering a commercial wave and tidal energy sector in Europe. Denmark participates via DHI.
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MERMAID (2012 – 2015) [http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/rcn/101743_en.html] Innovative Multi-purpose
Offshore Platforms: Planning, Design and Operation; the project is coordinated by DTU.
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MARINA (2010 - 2014) [http://www.marina-platform.info/] the MARINA Platform project will establish a set
of equitable and transparent criteria for the evaluation of multi-purpose platforms for marine renewable energy
(MRE). Danish participants are Dong Energy and DTU-Risø.
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MARINET (2011-2015) [http://www.fp7-marinet.eu/] aims to coordinate research and development at all
scales (small models through to prototype scales from laboratory through to open sea tests) and to allow access
for researchers and developers into facilities, which are not universally available in Europe. From Denmark, AAU
and DTU participate.
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IEC TC 114 within the development of standards on ocean energy, Denmark is participating in a number of
standardization groups.