Participation in the Ocean Lider Project

The project is a technological initiative promoted by a consortium of companies with strong research capacity facing the challenge of generating knowledge for the efficient exploitation of the oceanic renewable resources (waves, currents and hybrids). Sener is going to investigate in two of the five activities within the
project.

Activity II aims to research technologies and energy production systems from
renewable oceanic sources, such as waves and currents. But the most ambitious project is the energy obtained from the wind, waves, currents and tides simultaneously. Sener will develop the structural analysis of the unit that will host all these technologies using the finite elements method, and will also make the stability calculation and the longitudinal strength.
Activity V, in which Sener is also taking part, aims the research of new
technologies, methodologies and systems allowing the necessary marine activities with tighter times and costs, in order to minimize the number of operations, its complexity and the security risks. First of all, it will be done a comprehensive study of the current systems and its deficiencies with the purpose of defining the optimum operations. The research investigation will identify new technologies and methods but also will optimize the existing ones. Finally, Sener will develop a study around the State of the Art of the necessary vessels related with this new energy, for the towing, mounting, building, auxiliary services, maintenance, wind turbines operation and offshore installations. Taking in mind the operation requirements on the implementation of the new defined units, Sener will also develop the basic design of a vessel for all these needs.