The Sustainable Vitality Authority of Eire (SEAI) has issued a name for tenders for a floating LiDAR and related provision of information for the Atlantic Marine Vitality Take a look at Web site (AMETS).
The scope of labor beneath the contract that can be awarded by the tender contains the set up, operation, upkeep, assortment of metocean knowledge, and subsequent decommissioning of a floating LiDAR system at AMETS, and provision of “knowledge as a service” utilizing the collected knowledge.
This can permit SEAI to have detailed climate and web site circumstances prepared for sharing with know-how builders planning to check their buildings at AMETS.
The contract, valued at EUR 2.5 million, can be in impact for twelve months.
The deadline for submitting proposals is 12:00 native time on 11 March 2024.
The Atlantic Marine Vitality Take a look at Web site, situated west of Belmullet in County Mayo, is a floating wind and wave power know-how check web site which has been in improvement for a number of years now.
SEAI obtained a foreshore lease for the location in 2015 to check wave power know-how and set up export cables. Planning permission for the onshore infrastructure was granted in 2017. In 2018, SEAI began engaged on increasing the location’s scope to incorporate floating wind know-how.
Firstly of final 12 months, SEAI began offshore surveys at AMETS and commenced work on making ready a young for an onshore substation which can join AMETS to the grid. Across the similar time, SEAI additionally revealed preparations have been underway for a young to acquire a floating LiDAR.
The check web site is an integral element of Eire’s Ocean Vitality Technique and is being developed in accordance with the nationwide Offshore Renewable Vitality Improvement Plan (OREDP).
The positioning will present two separate check areas with totally different water depths to permit a variety of gadgets to be examined.
Take a look at Space A can be situated some 16 kilometres offshore of Belderra Strand, the place the water depth is 100 metres, whereas Take a look at Space B can be some 6 kilometres from Belderra Strand, at a water depth of fifty metres.
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