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DENMARK

Kim Nielsen Rambøll

OPEN SEA TEST SITES

DanWEC Hanstholm is the Danish test site for wave energy – suited for testing prototypes. The test site is exposed to the waves from west with a fetch of about 600 km. The water depth in the dedicated area of 2 by 4 km is between 10 and 35 meter and distance to port 4 km. The wave resource is about 6 kW/m and the maximum significant wave height about 9 m, these conditions are currently being monitored and updated.

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 DanWEC Hansholm testsite

 

Nissum Bredning is a sheltered test site with a fetch of about 5 km to the west and 9 km in the direction SW.

The water depth is between 1 and 5 m, the resource is less than 1 kW/m and the maximum significant wave height about 1-2 m. 

This test site is well suited for 1:5-10 scale experiments.

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 Nissum Bredning test site


 

OPERATIONAL PROJECTS

Wavepiston was re-Installed at DanWEC test site in Hanstholm during the summer of 2016.

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  The German wave energy system NEMOS is being tested at
the sheltered DanWEC site in Nissum Bredning.

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PLANNED DEPLOYMENTS

Resen Waves are in the preparation stage for new rounds  of sea testing in Nissum Bredning. Initial testing was completed in 2016 as shown on the picture

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  Weptos plans the installation and testing of a prototype north of Brandsø, in Lillebælt, for a period of two years starting 2017.

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CrestWing plan to install in Kattegat, during 2017. The inventor and developer of Crestwing, Henning Pilgaard, passed away in 2016. Henning Pilgaard was a driving force within wave energy development in Denmark.