H2020 OPERA Project: Mooring System Experimental data from MARMOK-A-5 Wave Energy Converter at BiMEP

Funded under European Union's Horizon 2020 Programme, OPERA project’s main objective is to reduce the time to market of wave energy, by further advancing in 4 key innovations aiming to reduce up to 50% the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) projections of a floating Oscillating Water Column (OWC) technology. As part of project activities, a condition monitoring system was deployed during the open-sea testing campaign of IDOM's MARMOK-A-5 wave energy converter, while this was deployed in the Biscay Marine Energy Platform (BiMEP) from October 2016 to June 2019. The dataset herein contains a collection of experimental results obtained during this extensive testing campaign, The campaign covers two deployment periods, where the first testing period includes polyesther tethers and the second testing campaing includes innovative elastomeric tethers as described in more detail in the project documentation. This experimental dataset aims to provide quantitative comparison data of the dynamic behavior of the system under these two different configurations.

Further documentation regarding mooring configuration, mooring condition monitoring system and WEC instrumentation system is available in the "Publications" section of the project web page: http://opera-h2020.eu/.