Formulated from the TiME - Turbulence in Marine Environments - project, guidance aimed at understanding the effect of marine turbulence on tidal arrays in Scottish waters has been issued. Funded by the Scottish government and run by the Carbon Trust through the Marine Renewables Commercialisation Fund's (MRCF's) 'Array Technology Innovation Programme', the project was led by a consortium consisting of ABPmer, IT Power, Ocean Array Systems, and Partrac. "Turbulence was measured by Partrac in the challenging tidal environments of both the Sound of Islay and the Pentland Firth Inner Sound, using novel methods and technologies so that each could be evaluated, and turbulence could be mapped across differing tidal energy development sites," an ABPmer spokesman said.
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