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QED Naval team up with OMSG

By: Tom Russell 15/09/2015 QED edited by 4C Offshore

General Tidal

QED Naval have teamed up with Offler Marine Services Group (OMSG) to provide a selection of installation and recovery methods, to help de-risk and reduce cost exposure of the Subhub project and its payload of tidal turbines.

OMSG and QED Naval have taken steps with their plans to reduce the costs of deployment of the commercial scale multi megawatt devices. QED received a report this week from OSMG, produced by a team with experience within the tidal, and offshore wind power industry. Steve Offler supported the Subhub project when it was recognised that the feasibility to install Subhub in 30-60 minute time scales and at a fraction of the typical installation costs currently influencing the industry were achievable.

Recommendations from OMSG’s report are currently being implemented into the prototype structure design, based on a 4.0m diameter tidal turbine, to further fine tune the offshore installation and recovery process.

Jeremy Smith, Managing Director of QED Naval said, “This is a really exciting development for QED Subhub since the basis of our design is to remove the need for complex, large and hi tech installation vessels with equally high day rates and availability issues. This report along with what we have learned from our ballasting trials at Forth Estuary Engineering are the positive indicators that significant reductions in the costs of deployment of commercial scale devices are not too far away. We are steadily moving towards offering our customers and their investors a generic deployment solution no matter what the location, environment or turbine used“.

Steve Offler, MD at OMSG said “Marine Installation costs and risks are high, QED have identified this and sought to engage installation design expertise early to ensure costs and risks are mitigated, this is an extremely important part of the development process and one that will add significant value to Subhubs future success”

Subhub is QED Naval’s flagship project. The Subhub is a foundation structure for wave and tidal turbines. It commissions, tests, transports, installs, and secures a mini array of wave and tidal turbines to the seabed using it unique features and methods.

QED Naval completed all the feasibility assessments of the Subhub tidal turbine platform using its suite of design tools. They have also recently completed a successful tank testing program on the validation model using 30cm diameter perforated disc to act in the similar manner to a turbine.

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