Abstract
The purpose of this report is to provide suggestions for guidance for how to conduct incident resource measurement during the power performance assessment of a floating tidal energy converter (TEC).
The first part of this report summarises the current requirements and guidance from the IEC/TS 62600-200: Electricity producing tidal energy converters – Power performance assessment technical specification (IEC, 2013). The second section makes suggested recommendations based on EMEC’s own experience in using the specification and proposes possible procedures for floating tidal device testing.
The aim is then for this document to act as feedback to the IEC/TS 62600-200 maintenance team so that the comments can be considered as the second edition is developed.
This activity falls under the scope of the Interreg Channel Manche – TIGER project, intended to develop a go-to pan-European energy supply chain resource in the channel region.