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DTOceanPlus - Article: A Decision Support Tool for Long-Term Planning of Marine Operations in Ocean Energy Projects

Ocean energy is a relevant source of clean renewable energy, and as it is still facing challenges related to its above grid-parity costs, tariffs intended to support in a structured and coherent way are of great relevance and potential impact. The logistics and marine operations required for installing and maintaining these systems are major cost drivers of marine renewable energy projects. Planning the logistics of marine energy projects is a highly complex and intertwined process, and to date, limited advances have been made in the development of decision support tools suitable for ocean energy farm design. The present paper describes the methodology of a novel, opensource, logistic and marine operation planning tool, integrated within DTOceanPlus suite of design tools, and responsible for producing logistic solutions comprised of optimal selections of vessels, port terminals, equipment, as well as operation plans, for ocean energy projects. Infrastructure selection logistic functions were developed to select vessels, ports, and equipment for specific projects. A statistical weather window model was developed to estimate operation delays due to weather. A vessel charter rate modeling approach, based on an in-house vessel database and industry experience, is described in detail. The overall operation assumptions and underlying operating principles of the statistical weather window model, maritime infrastructure selection algorithms, and cost modeling strategies are presented. Tests performed for a case study based a theoretical floating wave energy converter produced results in good agreement with reality.

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Date (Publication)
2021-07-27
Identifier
https://www.france-energies-marines.org/4b30abf6-48f7-4e9a-9f22-ef4b4dbb876d
Credit
DTOceanPlus
Status
Completed
Author
  WavEC Offshore Renewables - Francisco Correia da Fonseca
Theme
  • tool
  • planning
  • marine operations
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Environmental monitoring facilities
France Energies Marines - Data Types
  • /Documents/Journal Article
France Energies Marines - Facades
  • /Metropolitan France/South Atlantic
  • /Metropolitan France/Eastern Channel - North Sea
  • /Metropolitan France/Mediterranean Sea
  • /Metropolitan France/North Atlantic - Western Channel
  • /Metropolitan France
France Energies Marines - Projects
  • /H2020/DTOCEANPLUS
France Energies Marines - Technologies
  • Tidal energy
  • Wave energy
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FrenchFrançais
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  • Geoscientific information
  • Oceans
  • Environment
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2021
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2021

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A Decision Support Tool for Long-Term Planning of Marine Operations in Ocean Energy Projects ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--publication-URL )

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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation
Article 7, paragraph 1, of Directive 2007/2 / EC corresponds to the technical procedures for interoperability: this is the regulation on interoperability: regulation n ° 1253/2013 of 21 October 2013 amending and supplementing Regulation n ° 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010
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Statement

The main objective of the DTOceanPlus project was to develop the 2nd generation of a suite of open source software tools for the design and optimization of wave and tidal turbine farms.

Partners of the project: Tecnalia, The University of Edinburgh, Energy Systems Catapult, Wave Energy Scotland, France Energies Marines, WavEC Offshore Renewables, Aalborg University, EDF, Enel Green Power, Naval Energies, Bureau Veritas, IDOM, Nova Innovation, CorPower Ocean, Open Cascade, EDP, Orbital Marine Power, Sabella.

Funding: This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement n° 785921.

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Parent identifier
DTOceanPlus - Project Sheet e89c9935-c435-45d7-8fc2-c608fe7b9ed8
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document
Hierarchy level name
Parent
Date stamp
2022-05-16T13:51:00.389Z
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  France Energies Marines - RESCORE
525 Avenue Alexis de Rochon , Plouzané , 29280 , France
 
 

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marine operations planning tool
France Energies Marines - Data Types
/Documents/Journal Article
France Energies Marines - Projects
/H2020/DTOCEANPLUS
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Environmental monitoring facilities

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