The Aguçadora test site is available for technology developers for research and project demonstration (TRL 6 - 8) of floating offshore wind and wave energy conversion devices, offshore aquaculture technologies, underwater robotics and ocean observation.
Key characteristics
- Managed by EDP & WavEC
- 45 -50 m water depth
- Area: 3.3 km2
- 5 km distance to shore
- 3 MW offshore electrical cable and Land station
- 6.6 kV Subsea cable
Services done
- Licensing process for offshore wind projects in Portugal (2010)
- Technical support to EDP in the licensing process of Windfloat project in Aguçadoura (2010)
- Numerical simulation of a wave energy device integrated in the Windfloat floating platform (2011)
- Public dissemination of the Windfloat in Aguçadora (2011)
- Environmental Monitoring of the Windfloat project (2012)
- Environmental study of the Windfloat Atlantic (2014)