Review on Available Information on Wind, Water Level, Current, Geology and Bathymetry in the DanWEC Area: (DanWEC Vaekstforum 2011)

The Danish Wave Energy Centre (DanWEC) has been established in 2009 because of participated desire to market the trial wave energy projects which are already in Hanstholm and others to come. The DanWEC is a part of Hanstholm harbour in the North-West of Denmark. The Center will contribute at creating a local base for knowledge, education and possibly a workplace which will be leased out to trial projects. It is therefore likely that different developers will deploy their wave energy devices during the next years in this location and therefore detailed knowledge on a number of environmental and physical parameter is necessary. The present report has been prepared by Lucia Margheritini (lm@civil.aau.dk), Post.Doc at the Department of Civil Engineering at Aalborg University. The report should function as a review and assessment of the existing documents and present knowledge on wind, current, water level, geology and bathymetry information at the DanWEC location. The present report has been prepared under the project No. 834101 “DanWEC Vaekstforum 2011”, task 3: “Collection and presentation of basic data about wind, current, water head, bathymetry and geology for the DanWEC site at the Port of Hanstholm”.