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A collaborative decommissioning project at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has completed the “forensic analysis” of a tidal energy tripod’s end-of-life condition.
The study gained a comprehensive understanding of the end-of-life condition of the tripod, assessing the long-term effect of deploying components and systems in the challenging high velocity environment at EMEC’s Fall of Warness tidal energy test site.
The tripod had been submerged for approximately 11 years during which two tidal turbines had operated on it.
Significant learnings have been collated and two reports published to provide feedback and design guidelines to the offshore renewable energy industry, enabling developers to minimise decommissioning costs and de-risk future projects.