RealTide: Advanced monitoring, simulation and control of tidal devices in unsteady, highly turbulent realistic tide environments. Description The RealTide project aims to identify the causes of the main failures of tidal turbines and to provide a step-change in the design of key components adapting them more accurately to the complex environmental tidal conditions.Advanced monitoring systems together with maintenance strategies are been implemented to achieve increased reliability and improved performance over the full tidal turbine life. RealTide is pushing the transition of the tidal sector.RealTide is a response to the Horizon 2020 Competitive Low-carbon Energy call "Developing the next generation technologies of renewable electricity and heating/cooling" (LCE-07-2016). The project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 727689. RealTide is running since 1st January 2018. Project summary Funder(s):European Commission H2020Lead partner:Bureau VeritasFull partner list:University of Edinburgh; IFREMER; Bureau Veritas; EnerOcean; Sabella; 1-Tech; Ingeteam; Bureau Veritas Solutions Marine & OffshoreValue:€4,974,990Status:CompletedDates:01-Jan-2018 to 16-Dec-2021 File Library Technical Reports IDTitleYearVersionPagesD1.1Increased Reliability of Tidal Rotors2019-198D1.2RAM Assessment Report202000133D1.3Effect of sea water aging on the static and fatigue properties of composites for tidal blade design20200049D1.4Methodology for the fatigue assessment of composite material blades20200147D1.6Guidelines for the development of tidal turbines reliability databases202105130D1.7Reduction of environmental impacts due to increased reliability20210140D2.1Deployment and Instrument Specification for Advanced Flow Characterisation20190445D2.2Next Generation Flow Measurements and Flow Classification202104125D2.3Environmental Conditions Database202103.156D3.1Generalised tide-to-wire-model--113D3.2Blade resolved CFD modelling of tidal turbines20200092D3.4Inter-comparison of BEMT, Blade-Resolved CFD, and BEMT-CFD Hybrid Models of scale turbines20200133D3.5Report on Synthetic Load Spectra and Time Series20210241D4.3A report on condition-based maintenance, its impact on monitoring and comparison to other maintenance strategies202000103D5.2Novel Materials for Blade Design20210032 This article was published on 2026-10-14
