Rock anchor installation (Credit SME)

UMACK

Project overview

The 35-month UMACK (Universal Mooring, Anchor & Connectivity Kit Demonstration) project will address ocean energy affordability, survivability, reliability and installation through the demonstration of a generic anchor-foundation-mooring-connectivity system which aims to reduce capital and installation costs by up to 50%.

The joint industry effort will develop and demonstrate a remotely operated, technology agnostic, quick connect, technical anchor and smart mooring system for multiple seabed types, applicable to a wide range of marine energy technologies. This will be coupled with a streamlined marine operations strategy focused on simplifying vessel requirements, reducing cycle time for connection and retrieval of devices while increasing operational windows. The project will also demonstrate how the improved strategies and reduced downtime afforded by the system will ultimately decrease the levelised cost of electricity (LCOE) and increase energy return on investment.

The anchor solution will undergo an extensive verification and validation campaign including subsystem testing followed by open sea testing. The UMACK system will be installed at a wave energy site and first demonstrated utilising an “empty” CPO C4 WEC hull. Following successful project delivery a PTO will be integrated into the C4 hull, and the UMACK system will be verified with an integrated WEC device.

UMACK is being funded by Scottish Enterprise and the Swedish Energy Agency with co-funding from the OCEANERA-NET COFUND (via the European Commission under Horizon 2020).

SME AROV subsea during rock anchor install at EMEC (Credit SME)

SME AROV subsea during rock anchor install at EMEC (Credit SME)

Project partners

UMACK brings together leading wave and tidal energy developers, CPO (wave) and SME (tidal), mooring experts TTI Marine Renewables, the world’s leading ocean energy test and verification facility the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), and marine renewable energy modelling experts at the University of Edinburgh.

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