Sector programme
First French offshore research platform dedicated to offshore wind energy coupled with an innovative R&D programme
The French Channel coast, which already has highly developed human activities, is particularly concerned by the deployment of offshore wind farms. However, qualifying the effects of commercial wind farms on a local scale, and the cumulative impacts of the various uses of the sea on the environment on a coastline scale, remains a major research challenge. This requires the long-term acquisition of field data, which is made possible using a measuring mast located off Fécamp and belonging to France Energies Marines. The mast is a genuine research platform at sea where state-of-the-art instrumentation is deployed, and innovative monitoring protocols are developed. This is a first in France to support the sector’s industrialists and the State with field studies, while encouraging their collaboration with the various research players.
Six topics are studied in the framework of DRACCAR:
Studying the cumulative impacts of anthropogenic activities at the local and seafront scales by developing robust numerical modelling approaches with a refined spatio-temporal resolution.
Characterising the use of the area and assess the associated effects.
Characterising and better understand the reef effect generated by the installation of structures with foundations at sea.
Developping new methods for measuring and modelling wind turbulence.
Detailed understanding of the interactions between currents, sea states and the mast, like the phenomena present in a wind farm.
Qualifying the way in which the measuring mast can influence the dynamics of the surrounding seabed, and vice versa.
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DRACCAR is led by France Energies Marines.
DRACCAR is financially supported by the Normandy Region and the European Union.
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New methods for turbulence measurements and models in offshore wind
Monitoring marine megafauna off Fécamp’s coasts in an offshore wind farm context
Structural behaviour – Benthos & biofouling – Hydrosedimentary processes
