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IMPACT Newsletter - Christmas 2021
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Festive greetings from the IMPACT project! As the year draws to a close, we look at the latest news from the IMPACT project.
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Work is well underway on this important EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation project. In this newsletter, we present two blog posts from project partners, a new member on the Technical Advisory Board, and learning from a recent EERA workshops.
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Do you know someone working with or interested in wave energy testing that would be interested in following the IMPACT project? Feel free to forward this email on to them, and ask them to sign up for their own copy.
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VGA Joins EERA Energy Storage Workshop
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Titled ‘EU Clean Energy Transition: Perspectives and Challenges for Energy Storage,’ the workshop was jointly organised by StoRIES, Joint Programme for Energy Storage (EERA) and SUPEERA project.
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“We shared our experience in storage systems and we have also identified some synergies between this topic and the IMPACT project,” says VGA’s Giacomo Alessandri.
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ENI joins Technical Advisory Board
ENI collaborates with Wave for Energy to industrialize the ISWEC technology as part of their decarbonisation plan for offshore oil & gas platforms and to become a world-wide leader in the marine renewable energy sector. ENI installed the ISWEC 1:2-scale prototype in the Adriatic Sea in 2019, a device that is still in operation.
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Wave Energy Converter Design: It’s Not Easy!
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A blog post by Joao Cruz of Yavin Four Consultants, a partner in the IMPACT project.
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‘Modern’ Wave Energy Converters (WECs) have been designed since the 1970s, using a mix of theoretical, numerical and experimental modelling approaches. Each approach, as the word ‘modelling’ suggests, aims to emulate the dominant characteristics of a ‘real’, full-scale WEC.
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However, and owing to the very essence of modelling, each approach also carries its own hypothesis and limitations – leading to modelling uncertainty.
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Why Are Grid Codes Important for Wave Energy Converters?
A blog post by Ole Christian Spro of SINTEF Energy Research, a partner in the IMPACT project.
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Before new equipment, loads or generators are allowed to connect to an electrical grid, the grid operators of high, medium and low voltage grids will present a set of requirements that must be met.
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This is to ensure that the grid can continue to operate in a stable and safe manner, which our society has become so dependent on. In addition to being stable, the operation of the grid should not be disturbed by new users in such a way that the service to existing customers is seriously affected.
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Feel free to share this copy with a colleague or friend.
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Kind regards Hans Christian Bolstad Dissemination & Communication Manager
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