Minesto in pact with Nation Taiwan Ocean Uty for Deep Green testing

Deep Green project kites

Ocean energy developer Minesto has signed a collaboration agreement with the Research Center for Ocean Energy and Strategies at National Taiwan Ocean University.

The collaboration will focus on installation and ocean testing of a scale model and research on Minesto’s technology Deep Green. Under this agreement, Minesto and RCOES will explore the potential for Minesto’s Deep Green technology in Taiwan.

To start with, the parties will install a quarter scale Deep Green power plant at an existing RCOES test site in Keelung. This joint demonstration project will allow Minesto and RCOES to perform long-term testing of the Deep Green technology in Taiwanese tidal streams.

As a second phase of the collaboration, potential sites for commercial scale installation of the Deep Green technology will be developed.  Some of the test sites have been identified, where Deep Green will be exploiting low-velocity, continuous ocean currents.

Dr Martin Edlund, CEO of Minesto, said, “For successful local commercialization of a marine energy technology such as ours, it is very important that local research expertise get the opportunity to research and verify the technology. That research will also make a significant contribution to the further technology development of the Deep Green concept”.

“To expand into the low-velocity ocean current resource with a power plant in commercial scale will make an outstanding demonstration of the uniqueness and potential of the Deep Green technology”, says Edlund.

For RCOES, the collaboration with Minesto will allow them to develop expertise in ocean energy test site operations, including infrastructure build-up. It also presents the opportunity to conduct applied research on a novelty marine energy technology.

Rajani Baburajan

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