ORE Catapult's facilities are a significant enabler to accessing the UK's vast offshore resources.
The Crown EstateTesting Services
As wind farms continue to be deployed further offshore and into deeper waters with increasingly challenging conditions, ORE Catapult’s offshore anemometry platform enables clients to test, calibrate and validate remote sensor technologies in a representative Round 3 environment.
Clients can prove reliability, data availability and performance, as well as evaluate environmental conditions, observe marine conditions and collect wildlife data for R&D purposes.
- Hosting floating lidar trials
- Data licensing for wind and ocean conditions
- Consenting and permitting
- Project support
- Collaborative R&D projects
- SME product development support
- Hosting instrumentation and monitoring of new equipment
- Providing third-party validation reports
Testing Facilities
Offshore anemometry platform
Located 3nm off the coast of Blyth, Northumberland, providing wind resource and environmental data to validate new remote sensing techniques
Download the National Offshore Anemometry Platform specification sheet
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