Ocean DEMO
Project: Ocean DEMO
Timescale: 2019 – 2022
Funder: Interreg North-West Europe
Funding: EU FUNDING – € 7.71 m / TOTAL BUDGET – € 12.85 m
Project website:
Project overview:
Ocean DEMO will provide funding to developers of marine renewable technologies to test their products or services in real sea environments, specifically targeting multi-machine ocean energy installations. This will allow developers to move closer to market by demonstrating their technologies at full commercial scale.
Partners:
- Dutch Marine Energy Centre
- SmartBay Ireland
- Ecole Centrale de Nantes
- Ocean Energy Europe
EMEC’s role:
EMEC is the lead partner for the project, and one of the test facilities available for wave and tidal energy technologies to demonstrate their technologies in the sea.
Outcomes:
Ocean Demo has supporting the demonstration programmes of many tidal and wave energy companies, including Orbital Marine Power, Magallanes Renovables, AWS Ocean, and Mocean Energy. Real-sea demonstration of tool and components has also been facilited by Ocean DEMO, including Edinburgh University’s C-ADP demonstration and TFI’s mooring demonstrations.
Project news:
- December 2023: Ocean DEMO celebrates success as project draws to a close
- May 2022: Aquantis signs up to EMEC tidal demo
- April 2022: AWS Waveswing gets shakedown at EMEC
- January 2022: AWS wave energy converter arrives in Orkney for EMEC demo
- November 2021: Mocean Energy Blue X completes sea trials at EMEC
- June 2021: Mocean Energy Blue X wave machine starts sea trials at EMEC
- June 2021: Ocean DEMO opens 4th call
- May 2021: Mocean Energy Blue X arrives in Orkney prior to sea trials at EMEC
- April 2021: Magallanes reinstall ATIR tidal turbine at EMEC
- January 2021: Mocean Energy edges closer to EMEC deployment
- November 2020: Ocean DEMO awards support to 12 developers for 3rd call
- June 2020: Ocean DEMO user workshop
- June 2020: Ocean DEMO third call to focus on progression towards multi device installations
- April 2020: Ocean DEMO call 2 awards support to ten technology developers
- September 2019: Ocean DEMO hits the ground running with opening of 2nd call
- May 2019: Ocean DEMO opens first call to support ocean energy farm installation
- January 2019: 12.8M€ awarded to demonstrate ocean energy farms
