Peninsula Research Institute for Marine Renewable Energy

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21 December 2011
Future of wave hub is secured
The offshore marine energy project in Cornwall, which allows developers to test new wave energy technology, will be taken on by the Government to secure its future as a vital part of the UK's green energy sources. Read more

28 September 2011
PRIMaRE Autumn Newsletter
Our Autumn newsletter is now available to download in PDF format.
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12 July 2011
Wave Hub wins national sustainability award

Wave Hub, the offshore marine energy project in Cornwall, has been named Sustainable Project of the Year in the businessGreen Leaders Awards 2011.

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Resource Characterisation

Wave and tidal resource characterisation enables the detailed assessment of the economic viability of potential sites. For example, PRIMaRE is using wave buoys, computational simulation and land based radar to quantify the wave energy resource available at the Wave Hub site off the North Cornwall coast.

Research capabilities include:

High performance computing cluster
Wave Tank with programmable wave maker (18m long x 1m deep)
Recirculating Flume (18m longx 0.5m deep)
Computational Fluid Dynamics software
Observation of wave conditions
Observation of tidal currents
Short term simulation of wave, wind and tidal conditions for operational performance and resource assessment
Long term simulation of marine conditions for strategic climatic scenarios and planning
Monitoring of the turbulence velocity fluctuations throughout water column
Bathymetric mapping of the seabed
Seabed sediment characterisation

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