Fugro Oceanor to Supply Primare Unique Array of Wave Buoys

The Wave Hub is a groundbreaking renewable energy project that aims to create the UK's first offshore facility for the demonstration and proving of arrays of wave energy generation devices (WECs). The Wave Hub facility will provide a well defined and monitored site with electrical connection to the onshore national grid. Four different proven commercial WEC devices are to be connected to Wave Hub's sea bed 'socket'  which is approximately 16 km offshore and at a depth of 50m.

PRIMaRE, which is directly linked to the Wave Hub project, is tasked to monitor and characterize the wave climate at the site. The 8 directional wave sensor buoys will facilitate this with detail coverage of the 2km by 4km deployment area.  More significantly, as an integrated and synchronized system, the array will constitute a world leading facility giving researchers in wave energy a unique opportunity to work with a much richer and detailed data sets.  A case where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

The buoy array will also be an important part of Wave Hub's infrastructure, feeding wave   information to the WEC devices. In one mode of operation the buoys will be able to deliver synchronized live and continuous data streams that will allow a local description of the sea surface to be computed in near real time. This data can be provided as a live feed to the WEC devices to help optimize their energy output.

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