Free access to world-class marine renewable energy testing facilities

TECNALIA and EVE offer to the industrial and scientific community a joint access to their marine renewable energy infrastructures. We are committed to renewable sources of energy in the marine environment as a sector of the future which helps towards sustainable economic growth and stable job creation. We believe that research, development and innovation can play a key role in obtaining competitive technologies compared to other energy sources.

Three top class facilities are offered:

• TECNALIA’s Component Corrosion Test Platform (HarshLab): An advanced floating platform moored 1 mile away Armintza’s coast (Gulf of Biscay, Spain) designed for the evaluation of materials and components against corrosion, ageing and fouling phenomena in real offshore environment.
• TECNALIA PTO (Power Take Off) Lab: A turbine emulator to reproduce the mechanical output of an ocean energy device/wind turbine. It consists of a HIL (Hardware in the Loop) test bench for grid connection of wind turbines and ocean energy converters, focused on testing electrical components and control laws.
• EVE- Mutriku Wave Power Plant: integrated in the breakwater of Mutriku, the grid connected plant consists of 16 OWC allowing to test new concepts in air turbines, generators, control strategies and auxiliary equipment.

TECNALIA PTO Lab is prepared to replicate the behavior of the Mutriku Wave Plant. Users aiming at testing in Mutriku can validate their models first in a controlled laboratory environment and subsequently easily change to Mutriku Wave Power Plant. This approach has been successfully applied for wave energy devices development by experts of IST in the Opera Project.