The electrical and communication infrastructure (REDSUB) is composed of two medium voltage cables (13.2kV) with a capacity of 5MW, each one, within the range of ☑% of 50Hz. The infrastructure will be mostly underwater, comprising hybrid cabling, with copper cables for the transmission of electrical power and fibre optics for data transmission, including a short terrestrial section to connect to the electrical substation on land. The onshore infrastructure will go from the manhole up to the electrical substation (66kV), where the electricity is raised up for its deliver to the national transmission grid. The final testing decision would be conditioned to the appropriateness, opportunity and availability of the facilities. This Marine Test Site is available to projects focused on testing and demonstrating of all kinds of marine devices but mainly marine renewable energy converters. The marine test site includes an area of about 23 km 2 with a wide range of water depth from shoreline to 600 m. The PLOCAN Marine Test Site is located on the East coast of Gran Canaria Island (Spain, The Canary Islands are located in the Atlantic Ocean, south-west of Spain and Northwest of Africa.
Wide area monitoring – Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs).Real-Time Digital Simulators, Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL) testing equipment and Rapid Control Prototyping(RCP) systems (OPAL-RT).Grid emulator (200 kVA amplifier, DC to 5 kHz).Rotating machinery: Induction generators/motors(IG), Synchronous generators/motors (SG), Permanent magnet generators/motors (PM).AC/DC converters: Voltage Source Converters (VSC) and Multi-Level Converters (MMC).Generation (Large scale, DG, wind farms, PV, hydro.).NTNU and SINTEF owns the Norwegian National Smart Grid Laboratory in Trondheim. The laboratory is a system-oriented laboratory providing state-of-the-art infrastructure for R&D, demonstration, verification, and testing over a wide range of Smart grid use cases. The laboratory enables us to test the Smart Grids of tomorrow. Grid connection control: Interaction between components in an electrical power network in various grid conditions, as strong grid, weak grid and island operation Investigation of component behaviour during abnormal operation conditions, transient behaviour Behaviour of converter control system in non- ideal network conditions, as weak grids and island operating modes, transient events, dips and circuit breaker operations etc.WEC Control: tuning of controllers, optimum efficiency control, peak to average power control.Services currently offered by the infrastructure:
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This test bench simulates the power production of a device with a rotary movement and it can be divided into three key elements: Device Emulator, Electrical Generator and Power Converter. (electrical generators and/or power converters). It consists of a HIL (Hardware in the Loop) test bench for grid connection of wind turbines and ocean energy converters, focused on testing electrical components The Electrical PTO-Lab is a turbine emulator to reproduce the mechanical output of an ocean energy device/wind turbine
Services offered by the infrastructure includes: The basin is fitted with a data acquisition system, sensors, 3D motion camera system and a PIV system for flow visualisation. Test survival conditions at a scale of c.
Test operational conditions up to TRL4 for wave and offshore wind devices at a scale of c.1:50.The OOE was constructed following the identification, during MARINET1, of the need for more advanced testing infrastructure at early stage Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs).
A curved wall of wave generation paddles allows for omnidirectional wave generation which peaks at Hs = 0.16m, Tp = 1.4s and Hmax = 0.32m. A central trench, equipped with a moveable floor, allows for testing at water depths between 1 and 2.5m. The Lir OOE is 25m * 18 m and nominally 1m in depth.