The team at TNEI, which has worked closely with UK wave and tidal developers and manufacturers in designing the tool, is creating it for its IPSA software suite, which has been used in modelling extensions for wind farms.

TNEI expects to ship out a first version of the software toward the end of the year.

“The wave and tidal industry is a very young, underdeveloped industry faced with lots of unanswered questions,” says TNEI Power Systems & Technology Group technical consultant Adam Maloyd.

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