The EU-funded Ocean DEMO project has awarded recommendations for support to 12 offshore renewable energy developers under its third call.
Successful applicants will receive free access to test their ocean energy products and services in real sea environments at the project’s network of test centres, which includes EMEC in UK, DMEC in the Netherlands, SEM REV in France, and SmartBay in Ireland.
The support packages will also help developers attract further investment and move along the path to commercialisation, according to Ocean DEMO.
The following technology developers were recommended for support packages under the third call by the Ocean DEMO Selection Board:
Funded by Interreg North-West Europe, Ocean DEMO is a €13 million project aiming to accelerate ocean energy’s transition from single prototype to multi-device farms. Technology developers can apply for support packages to test multi-device farms or single devices looking to scale up to multi-device in the future.
Lisa Fitzpatrick , Project Manager at EMEC and Ocean DEMO Project Leader, said: “The level of interest we’ve seen for Ocean DEMO’s 3rd call is extremely encouraging for the future of the project and the sector in general. Despite the challenges we faced this year, many technology developers are eager and ready to deploy as soon as possible.
“We’re very enthusiastic about our 2021 deployment pipeline and remain strongly committed to helping developers build their technologies up from single machine to multi-device farms”.