Scottish Tidal Project moves one step closer with the completion of the tidal cable management and protection structure.
Jee’s cable protection and recovery solutions are helping Scotland commercialise marine energy by ensuring cables are well protected and maintainable, using Jee’s U-Tube concept. The system is designed to meet the cable installation, protection and retrieval requirements of tidal projects.
Providing a low cost, pre-installed foundation and cable network system deployable on any seabed terrain, the system allows for any tidal turbine to be mounted. The ultimate benefit being the increase in system reliability leading to significantly lower through-life costs and lower upfront insurance premiums, Jee said.
During September 2015, the U-tube demonstration trial will take place offshore in Orkney. It will be the largest structure to ever be deployed in a high energy tidal environment which utilises a low cost installation vessel arrangement, comprising of a gantry barge, two Mulitcats and one tug.
The U-tube concept is the first in the Jee family of tidal turbine foundation designs.
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