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PEL/114 - Marine energy - Wave, tidal and other water current converters

Sector: Sustainability

Categories: Cables | Energy and heat transfer engineering | | Hydraulic energy engineering

Overview: Under the direction of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee, is responsible for the development of British Standards in the field of Marine Energy - Wave and Tidal Energy Converters. It provides the UK input into the IEC/TC114.

Committee standards activity

In Progress (19)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.
PNW TS 114-602 ED1: Marine energy - Wave, tidal and other water current converters - Part 11: Handbook for Scour Protection Methods

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules

Proposal begins : 2025-09-24 		Proposal
PNW TS 114-586 ED1: Resource Assessment for an Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) Plant

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules

Proposal begins : 2025-05-30 		Proposal
PNW TS 114-567 ED1: Guideline for Research and Development of Small/ Tiny Wave Energy Converters

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules

Proposal begins : 2025-01-28 		Proposal
PNW TS 114-509 ED1: Electricity producing ocean thermal energy converters - Power performance assessment

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Engineering | Energy and heat transfer engineering | Hydraulic energy engineering

Proposal begins : 2023-12-18 		Proposal
PNW TS 114-447 ED1: Measurement and characterization of biofouling accumulation

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Engineering | Energy and heat transfer engineering | Hydraulic energy engineering

Proposal begins : 2022-08-10 		Proposal
PD IEC/TS 62600-50 Ed.1.0 Measurement and characterization of turbulence

Categories: Unclassified documents

Drafting begins : 2026-04-20 		Drafting
PD IEC/TS 62600-41 Ed.1.0 Measurement and characterization of biofouling accumulation

Categories: Unclassified documents

Drafting begins : 2026-04-20 		Drafting
PD IEC/TS 62600-40 Ed.2.0 Marine energy - Wave, tidal and other water current converters. Part 40: Acoustic characterization of marine energy converters

Categories: Unclassified documents

Drafting begins : 2026-04-20 		Drafting
PD IEC/TS 62600-4 Ed.2.0 Marine energy - Wave, tidal and other water current converters. Part 4: Technology Qualification for marine energy converters (MECs)”,

Categories: Unclassified documents

Drafting begins : 2026-04-20 		Drafting
PD IEC/TS 62600-22 Ed.1.0 Resource Assessment for an Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) Plant

Categories: Unclassified documents

Drafting begins : 2026-01-23 		Drafting
Published (18)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.
PD IEC/TS 62600-200:2013 Marine energy. Wave, tidal and other water current converters. Electricity producing tidal energy converters. Power performance assessment

Categories: Hydraulic energy engineering

Published standard begins : 2013-05-30 		Published standard
PD IEC/TS 62600-102:2016 Marine energy. Wave, tidal and other water current converters. Wave energy converter power performance assessment at a second location using measured assessment data

Categories: Hydraulic energy engineering

Published standard begins : 2016-08-15 		Published standard
PD IEC/TS 62600-101:2024 Marine energy. Wave, tidal and other water current converters. Wave energy resource assessment and characterization

Categories: Hydraulic energy engineering

Published standard begins : 2025-01-03 		Published standard
PD IEC TS 62600-40:2019 Marine energy. Wave, tidal and other water current converters. Acoustic characterization of marine energy converters

Categories: Hydraulic energy engineering

Published standard begins : 2019-07-30 		Published standard
PD IEC TS 62600-4:2020 Marine energy. Wave, tidal and other water current converters. Specification for establishing qualification of new technology

Categories: Hydraulic energy engineering

Published standard begins : 2020-10-02 		Published standard
PD IEC TS 62600-301:2019 Marine energy. Wave, tidal and other water current converters. River energy resource assessment

Categories: Hydraulic energy engineering

Published standard begins : 2019-09-20 		Published standard
PD IEC TS 62600-300:2019 Marine energy. Wave, tidal and other water current converters. Electricity producing river energy converters. Power performance assessment

Categories: Hydraulic energy engineering

Published standard begins : 2019-09-19 		Published standard
PD IEC TS 62600-30:2018 Marine energy. Wave, tidal and other water current converters. Electrical power quality requirements

Categories: Hydraulic energy engineering

Published standard begins : 2018-09-04 		Published standard
PD IEC TS 62600-3:2020 Marine energy. Wave, tidal and other water current converters. Measurement of mechanical loads

Categories: Hydraulic energy engineering

Published standard begins : 2020-05-18 		Published standard
PD IEC TS 62600-202:2022 Marine energy. Wave, tidal and other water current converters. Early stage development of tidal energy converters. Best practices and recommended procedures for the testing of pre-prototype scale devices

Categories: Hydraulic energy engineering

Published standard begins : 2022-05-16 		Published standard
Withdrawn (8)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.
PD IEC/TS 62600-201:2015 Marine energy. Wave, tidal and other water current converters. Tidal energy resource assessment and characterization

Categories: Hydraulic energy engineering

Withdrawn begins : 2025-12-04 		Withdrawn
PD IEC/TS 62600-2:2016 Marine energy. Wave, tidal and other water current converters. Design requirements for marine energy systems

Categories: Hydraulic energy engineering

Withdrawn begins : 2021-04-20 		Withdrawn
PD IEC/TS 62600-101:2015 Marine energy. Wave, tidal and other water current converters. Wave energy resource assessment and characterization

Categories: Hydraulic energy engineering

Withdrawn begins : 2025-01-03 		Withdrawn
PD IEC/TS 62600-100:2012 Marine energy. Wave, tidal and other water current converters. Electricity producing wave energy converters. Power performance assessment

Categories: Hydraulic energy engineering

Withdrawn begins : 2024-12-04 		Withdrawn
PD IEC/TS 62600-10:2015 Marine energy. Wave, tidal and other water current converters. Assessment of mooring system for marine energy converters (MECs)

Categories: Hydraulic energy engineering

Withdrawn begins : 2021-08-06 		Withdrawn
PD IEC TS 62600-103:2018 Marine energy. Wave, tidal and other water current converters. Guidelines for the early stage development of wave energy converters. Best practices and recommended procedures for the testing of pre-prototype devices

Categories: Hydraulic energy engineering

Withdrawn begins : 2024-07-16 		Withdrawn
PD IEC TS 62600-1:2011+A1:2019 Marine energy. Wave, tidal and other water current converters. Terminology

Categories: Hydraulic energy engineering

Withdrawn begins : 2020-06-23 		Withdrawn
DD IEC/TS 62600-1:2011 Marine energy. Wave, tidal and other water current converters. Terminology

Categories: Hydraulic energy engineering

Withdrawn begins : 2019-06-03 		Withdrawn