Abstract
This report is part of the deliverable T1.7.3 – Accredited turbine performance test procedures – under the TIGER project.
The purpose of this deliverable will be to assess any areas of improvement in the IEC/TS 62600-200: Electricity producing tidal energy converters – Power performance assessment technical specification [1] when applied to non-conventional tidal energy converters, particularly tidal kites, and specifically to the incident resource measurement required.
Recommendations have been made as how the performance of a non-conventional tidal energy converter might be measured and where further research may be required in order to develop a standardised test methodology.