I hadn't seen this before today while randomly surfing Ceto 6 information, and I don't think it ever found its way to HC. It's a report for the EPA from Decemeber 2015, written by 3rd party consultants with substantial input from Carnegie, and it contains more information about Ceto 6 than I've ever seen in one place. 360 pages. A lot of it is now moot, but it's still interesting and based on what we now know it's interesting in more than one way.
Just an example; We know now that Carnegie had to do a lot of redesign work for Ceto 6, and the redesign was supposedly finished last year when it was announced. Angus Nichols was the project manager for Ceto 6 at the time the article was written in 2015 (see page 31), when this was given to the EPA as their timeline (see page 18):
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Project phase
Key Characteristics
Completion date
1
Design
Requirements and concept design completed
31 October 2015
2
Critical/detailed design completed
30 June 2016
3
Approvals, consents and permits completed
30 June 2016
We know this didn't happen, even if we don't know if Carnegie realised the problems the Ceto 6 design was having at the time or how long the work would take.
In February 2017, Angus moved to the UK and became the Ceto Wave Energy UK project manager. By this stage they obviously did know about the problems with the Ceto 6 design, because they were already past the point they planned to have foundations installed at Garden Island. But Angus went to the UK to project manage a Ceto 6 installation in Cornwall that wasn't on the cards. See here: https://hotcopper.com.au/threads/cornwall.3782949/?get_post=true#.WrSPO39rHuo
In October 2017 he was talking about a 3MW Ceto 6 installation happening in Cornwall in 2018, even though at that point we knew that Albany was going to be the first Ceto 6 installation in 2019/2020 and that there would be no other deployments before then, because it had already been announced to the ASX. In January 2018, 3 months later, Angus was back in Perth as the Ceto 6 project manager once again (https://www.linkedin.com/in/angus-nichols-37763917/).
I guess if nothing else it shows us why Carnegie rarely mentions timelines, especialy in any detail. Because they shoot themselves in both feet and the genitals when they do.
There will have to be another report like this done for Albany now that Ceto 6 is happening there, and it's possible it will have more detail once again than anything we see elsewhere. So it will be one to look out for.
And Angus; lift your media game, son.
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