Green Rebel awarded floating LiDAR contract for Irish wind and wave energy test site

Ireland-based survey provider Green Rebel has secured a contract for floating LiDAR services for the Atlantic Marine Energy Test Site (AMETS), located west of Belmullet in County Mayo.

The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) issued a call for tenders for a floating LiDAR and associated provision of data in February 2024, saying the contract will include the installation, operation, maintenance, collection of metocean data, and subsequent decommissioning of a floating LiDAR system at AMETS, and provision of “data as a service” using the collected data.

According to a contract award notice published on August 16, Green Rebel signed the contract on July 26.

SEAI obtained a foreshore lease for the AMETS site in 2015 to test wave energy technology and install export cables. Planning permission for the onshore infrastructure was granted in 2017. In 2018, SEAI started working on expanding the site’s scope to include floating wind technology.

The site will provide two separate test locations with different water depths to allow a range of devices to be tested. Test Area A will be located some 16 kilometers offshore of Belderra Strand, where the water depth is 100 meters, while Test Area B will be some 6 kilometers from Belderra Strand, at a water depth of 50 meters.