PLAT-O Gets Wet Ahead of EMEC Deployment

Published on June 7 2016

Sustainable Marine Energy (SME) is conducting submergence tests of its PLAT-O tidal energy platform ahead of the announced installation at one of EMEC's test berths.

According to the Notice to Mariners issued by Orkney Islands Council, four 6 tonne clumps will be in place on the seabed north west of Hatston, Kirkwall, starting from yesterday, June 6th.

SME will lift the PLAT-O tidal energy platform into the water, secured with weights, today, June 7th, to undertake submergence tests of the device.

SME is preparing to deploy the PLAT-O floating tidal platform at EMEC's Fall of Warness grid-connected tidal testing site, and has engaged an Orkney based marine renewables service provider, Leask Marine, to prepare the deployment site for the device.

Leask Marine, scheduled to deploy PLAT-O this summer, already provided multi-cat C-Salvor and C-Odyssey vessels to conduct operations related to mooring, subsea cabling, diving and crane operations from May 26th to June 1st 2016.

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