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Aguçadoura Test Site
The Aguçadoura test site is an offshore location in the north of Portugal where grid connected offshore renewable energy devices have been tested, for research and project demonstration. It is about 5 km (3 miles) off the coast of Aguçadoura, Póvoa de Varzim, about 35 km NNE of central Porto. It was established in 2001, and four developers have tested devices there: the Archimedes Wave Swing, three Pelamis Wave Power P1 machines as the Aguçadoura Wave Farm, the Principle Power WindFloat, and CorPower Ocean's C4. Since 2021, it has been managed by WavEC and OceanACT. Archimedes Wave Swing In May 2004, a 2 MW (peak power output) Archimedes Wave Swing (AWS) was installed at Aguçadoura, after unsuccessful attempts in 2001 and 2002. The installation took three and a half days, and was eventually achieved by attaching the convertor to a pontoon and then submerging it and attaching to the seabed while the chamber remained floating. The AWS device on the subme ...
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