Údarás Industrial Estate, An Choill Rua, Inverin, Galway, Ireland, H91Y923
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Seablade is a €165k project funded as part of the Oceanera net co-fund call.
There is a strong potential to reduce the cost of tidal turbine blades using epoxy powder and glass fibre and innovative proprietary manufacturing technology with advantages for weight, performance, efficiency, reliability, maintenance and costs. The project will advance the verifiable design life of such blades through a suite of tests and verification studies, both accelerating advancement of the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) and commercial readiness and informing decision making for future design iterations to reduce material costs, while also improving reliability and performance even further.
The key objective is to gather sufficient test data to validate a 20-year design life for the blades. This will result in more reliable blades that will lead to reduced maintenance and increased productivity and revenue. The project will, therefore, reduce the commercial risks associated with tidal energy. The overall impact of the project will be a reduced LCOE for the European citizen who will be the ultimate end user and beneficiary of the project.
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