EquiMar : Equitable Testing and Evaluation of Marine Energy Extraction Devices in Terms of Performance, Cost and Environmental Impact: Deliverable D4.2 Data Analysis & Presentation to Quantify Uncertainty

The Sea Trial Manual (D4.1) describes the type of operations required to advance an ocean energy conversion device (wave and tide) from an intermediate scaled sub-systems proving machine (circa 1:4) to a full size solo prototype pre-production unit and on towards a pre-commercial device ready for economic evaluation in a small array deployment. This progression covers development Stages 3 to 4 in the 5 Stage development programme on which the EquiMar technical protocols are based.

This report aims at providing a methodology for the analysis and presentation of data obtained from sea trials of marine energy converters, according to Annex 1 – Description of Work of the EquiMar project, where task 4.2 is defined. Some slight modifications have been made to the original structure due to re-adjustments in accordance with the on-going research.