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EU funding (€5,741,264): Open Sea Operating Experience to Reduce Wave Energy Cost Hor1 Feb 2016 EU Research and Innovation programme "Horizon"
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Open Sea Operating Experience to Reduce Wave Energy Cost
Europe is endowed with abundant wave energy which could cover some 10% of its electricity needs with a clean, predictable and job-creating resource, which EU companies are at the forefront exploiting with little dependence on foreign suppliers. There remain important technical challenges to bring down costs to within investors’ reach, as a top priority open-sea operating experience must be analysed to permit the focus of R&D efforts on identifying and solving problems uncovered in open-sea deployments. How???r, to this day, most wave energy R&D does not have access to open-sea operating data as they are not shared by the companies that sponsored open-sea tests. OPERA will remove this roadblock by collecting and sharing two years of open-sea operating data of a floating oscillating water column wave energy converter. In addition the project will be the first open-sea deployment for four cost-reducing innovations that will be advanced from TRL3-4 to TRL5. Together, these four innovations have a long-term cost reduction potential of over 50%. These are: a 50% more efficient turbine, latching and predictive control, a shared mooring system for wave energy similar to those that have reduced mooring costs 50% in aquaculture, and an elastomeric mooring tether that reduces peak loads at the hull-mooring connection 70% and thus addresses one of the most pressing challenges for structural survivability of wave energy devices. Documenting and sharing this open-sea experience will also induce a step-change in our knowledge of risk and uncertainties, costs and societal and environmental impacts of wave energy. The consortium brings together world leaders in wave energy research from four European countries and the IPR owner and most advanced teams to exploit each of these innovations. Last but not least, the project brings national in-cash co-financing of over €2 million to directly fund the open-sea testing.
Funded Companies:
| Company name | Funding amount |
| Biscay Marine Energy Platform SA | €420,375 |
| DNV UK Ltd. | €116,500 |
| €315,750 | |
| Fundacion Tecnalia Research & Innovation | €1,096,688 |
| Global Maritime Consultancy Ltd. | €133,125 |
| INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TECNICO | €359,789 |
| Iberdrola Engineering and Construction UK Ltd. | €37,269 |
| Idom Consulting, Engineering, Architecture SAU | €401,229 |
| €579,000 | |
| Oceantec Energias Marinas SL | €747,253 |
| The University of Edinburgh | €402,750 |
| €671,788 | |
| UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK - NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK | €459,750 |
Source: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/654444
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