Sustainable Marine Energy (SME) is conducting final tests on its PLAT-O tidal platform ahead of the scheduled transportation to Orkney.
PLAT-O has undergone final submergence testing today at SME’s facility in Venture Quays, East Cowes, Isle of Wight.
The platform has been commissioned and ready for deployment at EMEC. It will be trucked up to Orkney to SME’s facility in Kirkwall at the end of this week.
The first PLAT-O system, which hosts two Schottel Hydro’s SIT turbines, will be installed at EMEC in the following months.
In April 2015, SME signed a long term testing contract with the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), securing one of the test berths at the Fall of Warness tidal test site where it will deploy five PLAT-O systems in an array over the next two years.
The next generation PLAT-O system will be large enough to host four SIT turbines each and four of these platforms will be deployed in 2016/2017 to complete the 1 MW array.
SME recently bought 16 SIT turbines with a capacity of 62 kW each from Schottel Hydro which will be delivered to SME over the course of two years.
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