Abstract
In the WESE project scope, Work Package 2 aims to collect, process, analyse and share environmental data collected in sites where Wave Energy Converters (WEC) are operating in real sea conditions in Spanish and Portuguese coastal waters, representing different types of technology, sites and, therefore, types of marine environment (onshore, nearshore and offshore) that can potentially be affected by wave energy projects: (i) Idom-Oceantec MARMOK-A-5, installed in the Biscay Marine Energy Platform (BiMEP) in Spain; (ii) Wave Roller (AW-Energy), installed in Peniche (Portugal) and (iii) Mutriku Wave Power Plant, in operation in Spain.
Data will be collected for three of the priority areas of research: 1) risk to marine animals from sound generated by wave devices, 2) changes in physical systems (energy removal) and 3) effects of Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) emitted by the energy transfer cables.
Consequently, the aim of the present deliverable is to present the specific monitoring plans developed for noise (Section 5), EMF (Section 6) and seabed integrity monitoring (Section 7), covering the main types of technology location described in Section 3: onshore (Mutriku Wave Power Plant), nearshore (WaveRoller) and offshore (Idom-Oceantec MARMOK-A-5).