FORESEA
Project: FORESEA (Funding Ocean Renewable Energy through Strategic European Action)
Timescale: 2016-2019
Funder: Interreg North-West Europe
Project website: Interreg NWE – FORESEA
FORESEA was an €11m Interreg North West Europe project. Its helped bring offshore renewable energy technologies to the market by providing free access to North-West Europe’s world-leading network of test centres. Support was awarded through a series competitive calls run by the project consortium.
The FORESEA project was instrumental in boosting deployments of ocean energy technologies. Throughout the project, 30 low carbon offshore energy technologies tested in real sea conditions and the project helped developers leverage nearly €70 million.
Following the success of the FORESEA programme, EMEC launched OceanDEMO in 2019.
Where could I test through the FORESEA programme?
The programme covered the following test centres:
- European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC): Orkney Islands, UK
- SmartBay: Galway, Ireland
- SEM-REV: Nantes, France
- Dutch Marine Energy Centre: Alkmaar, Netherlands
The test centres are supported by the European industry body for ocean energy, Ocean Energy Europe, based in Brussels.
Projects that benefited from FORESEA support at EMEC:
- CorPower Ocean
- Laminaria
- Nautricity
- Naval Group
- Orbital (formerly Scotrenewables Tidal Power)
- Sustainable Marine Power
- Tocardo
- Tripod decommissioning
