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Demonstrator Project

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The Demonstrator project is an ongoing initiative by BPT, with funding and support from industrial partners to design, fabricate, install and operate a reduced scale version of BPT's power and control buoy. The buoy will be fabricated at A&P Falmouth before being installed and tested at the FABTEST site in Falmouth Bay. The site provides metocean conditions that will allow BPT to correlate numerical analysis and verify the motions performance. 

Objectives

QUALIFICATION

Technology Qualification.  Achieve TRL 6 and certificate of technology qualification.

VERIFY MOTIONS

Correlate numerical analysis and verify the motions performance. 

INSTALLATION METHODOLOGY

Demonstrate ballasting and installation methodologies.

 REMOTE
OPERATION

Demonstrate remote control of subsea systems.

Timeline

CONTRACT AWARDS
January 2025

HULL ASSEMBLY COMPLETE
April 2025

TOPSIDES INTEGRATION
May 2025

OPERATIONAL
 

HULL FABRICATION COMMENCES
February 2025

LAUNCH & BALLASTING
April 2025

INSTALLATION
June 2025

TECHNOLOGY QUALIFICATION
October 2025

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