Field-Measurements aligned to the implementation of a tidal energy converter’s power performance assessment (IEC 62600-200 PPA Type B)

As part of the ETI Reliable Data Acquisition for Tidal Platform (ReDAPT) project a multi-year field measurement campaign was carried out, comprising multiple seabed deployments of acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs) proximal to an operating 1MW commercial prototype tidal turbine. This dataset comprises two ADCP deployments (600kHz RDI Workhorse Sentinel 4-Beam) that targeted the (at the time) recently released IEC TS 62600-200:2013 Power Performance Assessment guidance. The deployment followed the guidance for a Type B implementation, i.e., ADCP instruments positioned inline and either side of the tidal turbine rotor plane. The data has been re-processed and QC’d under the EC H2020 RealTide project.