Five projects picked for support under 5th call of FORESEA

Wildlife observations at EMEC test site. Source: EMEC

Five offshore renewable energy projects have received recommendations for support under the fifth and final call of the EU-funded FORESEA programme.

The EUR-11-million (USD 12.5m) FORESEA project is designed to help commercialise offshore renewable energy technologies by providing developers with free access to a network of test centres in the UK, France, Ireland and the Netherlands.

The FORESEA Selection Board has now picked five projects that will be developed either at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney, Scotland, or at the SEM-REV test site in Centrale Nantes, France.

The table below gives more details about the projects.

Developer	Project	Test centre
IFREMER	ECHOSONDE	SEM-REV, Centrale Nantes
Green Marine	ALARM (Adjustable Lifting Aid for Recovery for Moorings)	EMEC
Resen Waves	RABBIT (Resen Waves Smart Buoy Sea Trails)	EMEC
Swirl Generators Ltd	STACS (Sea Trial of Autonomous Control and Seaworthiness)	EMEC
Wisub	SCORE	SEM-REV, Centrale Nantes

The above mentioned developers will receive final confirmation of support once they sign contracts with the relevant test centre.

This is the final call as part of FORESEA but next year real sea testing will continue through a follow-up programme called Ocean DEMO. This initiative, funded by the Interreg North West Europe programme, part of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), will give free access to open sea test centres for multi-machine enabling technologies in marine renewables. Its first call will be opened later this year.

(EUR 1.0 = USD 1.139)

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