The EU has launched a €13m funding programme to support the deployment of wave and tidal devices at test centres in the northwest Europe.
The Ocean Demo project will issue a first call for applications this year for installations between 2020 and 2022.
The €12.8m scheme backed by the Interreg North West Europe programme is targeted at four test sites: the European Marine Energy Centre in Scotland, the Dutch Marine Energy Centre, SEM-REV in France and SmartBay in Ireland.
Ocean Demo is the successor to the Foresea programme, which assisted 19 technologies deployed and more to come this year.
EMEC commercial director Oliver Wragg said: “We’re delighted to be able to continue the work we started with Foresea."
“With Ocean Demo, we will be able to scale up technologies to pilot farm scale.”
Source:renews
