OPIN Collaboration Group on corrosion monitoring seeks input from Ocean Energy Sector

The OPIN Team have supported a Collaborative Innovation Group (CIG) focusing on creating awareness on the impact of corrosion on offshore renewable projects and how corrosion monitoring can improve corrosion management.

The CIG partners (6 companies, 1 test centre and 6 research organisations) will bring together all their individual expertise, knowledge and experiences in order to highlight the opportunity offered by remote monitoring, showcase how remote monitoring can reduce the LCoE of ocean energy devices and identify what barriers need to be overcome to make a wider uptake of corrosion monitoring feasible.

To allow them to align this work with the requirements, needs and expectations for corrosion monitoring in wave, tidal and floating wind energy devices we are seeking input from the industry.  They have created an online questionnaire to gather information on previous experiences and future demands from ocean energy developers, the R&D community and supply chain organisations.  The questionnaire will close on January 22nd. If you’re confronted with the problem of corrosion or are working on ways to deal with it, your opinions and feedback are of great importance to us. Help us by completing the questionnaire on this link!

The final goal of the CIG is to establish opportunities for future international collaboration projects. A summary report of the most important findings, as well as the results from the questionnaire, will be made available to the wider public through the OPIN webpage. For more information, contact the OPIN network (opin@seai.ie).

This project receives support under the Interreg North-West Europe from the European Research and Development Fund (ERDF).