List of projects funded by Wave Energy Scotland

This page lists the projects funded by Wave Energy Scotland. These calls have been organised into six topics, mostly with three stages (1-3).

  • Power Take-Off (PTO)
  • Novel Wave Energy Converter (NWEC)
  • Structural Materials and Manufacturing Processes (SMMP)
  • Control Systems (CS)
  • Quick Connection Systems (QCS)
  • Direct Generation (DG)

Note that the projects listed below are listed by the date awarded then alphabetically, not in any order of priority.

Date Call Project name Project partners Contract value Status
30 Jul 2015[1] PTO Stage 1 Advanced Hydraulic-electric Power Take Off (AHPTO) Nova Innovation, Aquamarine Power, Siemens £89,929
Direct contact dielectric elastomer PTO for submerged wave energy converters Scuola Superiore di Studi Uniersitari e di Perfezionamento Sant'Anna (SSSA), University of Edinburgh, Universita di Bologna £96,000 Progressed to Stage 2
Edinburgh Designs Adaptive Power Take Off (EDAPTO) Edinburgh Designs £78,090
New Electric Automotive Power Extraction Device (NEAPED) Marine Design International (MDI), 4c Design £79,400
Power Electronic Controlled Magnet Gear (PECMAG) Ecosse Subsea Systems, Bathwick Electrical Design Ltd, Pure Marine Ltd, Supply Design Ltd. £100,000 Progressed to Stage 2
Power Sharing Transmission based Bi-directional to Uni-directional PTO (PST-PTO) Cofely Fabricom, Ghent University £99,990
Survivable and Efficient OLeo-hydraulic assisted power TAke-off (SEÒLTA) TECNALIA Research & Innovation, OCEANTEC Energías Marinas S.L. £87,271
Wave Energy Transmission Module Romax Technology Ltd, Sea Power Ltd, Limerick Wave & Pure Marine Gen £100,000 Progressed to Stage 2
'WEC-Direct' - The application of a direct drive, contra-rotating generator to wave energy converters Energy Systems Research Unit University of Strathclyde, Nautricity Ltd £99,128
PTO Stage 2 (direct) C-GEN Direct Drive PTO University of Edinburgh, University of Strathclyde, NGenTec Ltd, Fountain Design Ltd. £467,785
Hybrid Digital Displacement® hydraulic PTO for wave energy Artemis Intelligent Power Ltd., Quoceant Ltd. £499,997
ReBaS Generator (Reciprocating Ball Screw Generator) UMBRA Cuscinetti S.p.A., Hebrides Marine Services Ltd, SEAPOWER scrl [Consortium with University of Naples Federico II] £440,348
Blue Power Take Off Blue Power Energy Ltd., Energy Technology Centre Ltd. £306,530
Concept Optimisation of a Variable Damping Linear Power Take Off Oscilla Power Ltd., Oscilla Power, Inc. (USA), EMEC (UK) £499,998
PTO Stage 3 (direct) HiDrive - A direct drive PTO for resonant Wave Energy Converters CorPower Ocean, Iberdrola Engineer & Construction, EMEC & University of Edinburgh £1,893,461
2 Nov 2015[2] NWEC Stage 1 Attenuator Cost of Energy Reduction (ACER) 4C Engineering, Sea Power Ltd £300,000 Progressed to Stage 2
WaveTrain Sloped Pneumatic WEC Joules Energy Efficiency Services Ltd £291,039
WaveNET Series 12 Albatern Ltd £259,867
Mocean Wave Energy Converter Mocean Energy Ltd, The University of Edinburgh £299,491 Progressed to Stage 2
CCell Mark 3 – Novel Curved WEC Optimisation Zyba Limited, The University of Bath £252,024.88
AISV - Automatically Inflatable and Stowable Volume for step reduction in WEC cost of energy Quoceant Ltd £300,000
Anaconda Novel Wave Energy Converter Checkmate Seaenergy Ltd £271,012 Progressed to Stage 2
Advanced Archimedes Waveswing AWS Ocean Energy Ltd £284,853 Progressed to Stage 2
21 Sep 2016[3] PTO Stage 2 Wave Energy Transmission Module Romax Technology Limited, Sea Power Limited and FloWave TT £496,200
Power Electronic Controlled Magnet Gear (PECMAG) Ecosse Sub-sea Systems Ltd, Supply Design Ltd Bathwick Electrical Design Ltd, Pure Marine Gen Ltd £498,420
Inflatable Dielectric Elastomer Generator – PTO Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant’Anna, University of Edinburgh, Università di Bologna, and Cheros Srl £498,000
GATOR Stage 2 - a compliant seal free hydraulic PTO Exceedence Ltd, Technology from Ideas Ltd, Pelagic Innovation Ltd, University of Strathclyde, and University College Cork £495,000
10 Jan 2017[4] SMMP Stage 1 Hydrocomp CorPower Ocean, Balmoral Offshore Engineering, Wave Venture £248,600 Progressed to Stage 2
Reinforced polymers for Wave EneRgy Cruz Acheson Consulting Engineers Lda, Carnegie Wave Energy, CorPower Ocean, Arup Consulting Engineers, DNV-GL, National Composites Centre £249,614
Advanced Rotational Moulding for Ocean Renewables (ARMOR) Haydale Composite Solutions Ltd, Crompton Moulding Ltd., Wave Venture, Carbon Trust £249,762
Concrete as a Technology Enabler (CREATE) Ove Arup & Partners, Cruz Atcheson Consulting Engineers, MPA: The Concrete Centre, MPA British precast, SeaPower Ltd., Wello OY £250,000 Progressed to Stage 2
Advanced Rotational Moulding for Wave Energy Technologies (ARMWET) Polygen Ltd., Wave Venture, Rototek Ltd. £209,000
Advanced Concrete Engineering - WEC (ACE-WEC) Quoceant Ltd., University of Dundee, Black and Veatch, Innosea, David Kerr £245,231
Polyshell Technology from Ideas ltd., DuPont, Cruz Atcheson Consulting Engineers, Radius Systems £244,500
Netbuoy Tension Technology International Ltd., Black and Veatch Ltd., Optimus ( Abderdeen) Ltd., Quoceant Ltd. £245,300 Progressed to Stage 2
ELASTO ( A feasibility Study on Elastomeric-based WECs. University of Edinburgh, University of Plymouth, Griffon Hoverwork £244,714
Rotational Moulding of Polymers, Composites and Hybrid WEC Structures University of Edinburgh, Queens University Belfast, Pelagic Innovation, CETO UK, Eire Composites, Kingspan Environmental £250,000
27 Apr 2017[5] NWEC Stage 2 ACER2 4c Engineering £659,515.80
Improved Archimedes Waveswing™ AWS Ocean Energy Ltd £721,265 Progressed to Stage 3
Anaconda Novel Wave Energy Converter Stage 2 Checkmate Seaenergy Ltd £727,135
Mocean WEC: Next-Level Hydrodynamics and Engineering Mocean Energy Ltd £729,948 Progressed to Stage 3
13 Sep 2017 CS

Stage 1

SURF-MATIC Wave Venture, Mocean Energy Ltd., Altran Ltd., CorPower Ocean AB £48,860
Predictability Bounded Control of the Mocean WEC Mocean Energy Ltd., University of Bath £34,434
WEETICS University of Edinburgh, Oceantec Energias Marinas SL, Tecnalia Research and Innovation £45,000
Adaptive Control of the WaveSub WEC using a Romax electromechanical PTO Marine Power Systems Ltd., University of Bath, Romax Technology Ltd. £41,850
DataWave Mocean Energy Ltd., Wave Venture, CorPower Ocean AB, Polygen Ltd., MarynSol Ltd £46,200
WEQUAD FRAME Project INNOSEA Ltd., EPF Elettrotecnica Srl £41690
Cost of Energy Optimised by Reinforcement Learning (CEORL) Maxsim Ltd., Caelulum Ltd., Aquaharmonics Inc, Wave Conundrums Consulting, David Forehand, David Pizer, Mocean Energy Ltd, CorPower Ocean AB £46,926 Progressed to Stage 2
Control of WECs based on dielectric elastomer generators University of Edinburgh, Cheros Srl, University of Bologna, University of Trento £47,000
Non-linear Optimal Control: Concepts, Practicalities and Benefits Mocean Energy Ltd., Pelagic Innovation Ltd., Industrial Systems and Control Ltd. £47,000
Adaptive hierarchical model predictive control of wave energy converters Mocean Energy Ltd, Queen Mary University of London £28,209
Forewave Innosea Ltd., Politecnico di Torino, Wave for Energy Srl, Industrial Systems and control Ltd. £37,600
IMPACT Integrated Marine Point Absorber Control Tool SgurrControl Ltd., Cruz Atcheson Consulting Engineers £47,000 Progressed to Stage 2
Wave Energy Advanced Control System (WEACS) CPower Alba Ltd., SgurrControl Ltd., Wave Venture. £46,900
28 Feb 2018[6] PTO Stage 3 Power Electronic Controlled Magnet Gear (PECMAG) Ecosse Subsea Systems, Bathwick Electrical Design Ltd, Supply Design Ltd ,and Pure Marine Gen Ltd. £2.5m
27 Mar 2018[7] CS

Stage 2

Integrated Marine Point Absorber Control Tool (IMPACT) SgurrControl, Cruz Atcheson.[8] £187,409
Cost of Energy Optimised by Reinforcement Learning (CEORL) MaxSim Ltd, Caelulum Ltd, Aquaharmonics Inc., Wave Conundrums Consulting, University of Edinburgh, Marine Systems Modelling, REOptimize Systems.[9] £187,500 Progressed to Stage 3
Adaptive Hierarchical Model Predictive Control (AHMPC) for WEC control Queen Mary University of London, University of Exeter, Mocean Energy Ltd.[10] £151,304 Progressed to Stage 3
19 Jul 2018[11] SMMP Stage 2 WES CREATE (Concrete as a Technology Enabler) – Stage 2 Ove Arup, University of Dundee, Cruz Atcheson Consulting Engineers, Carnegie Clean Energy Limited, MPA British Precast, Mocean Energy Ltd £375,564 Progressed to Stage 3
HydroComp CorPower Ocean AB, Balmoral Comtec Limited, Wave Venture Ltd £399,900
Netbuoy II Tension Technology International Limited, University of Strathclyde, TTI Testing Limited, Optimus (Aberdeen) Limited, Black & Veatch Limited, Quoceant Limited. £396,664 Progressed to Stage 3
8 Jan 2019[12] NWEC Stage 3 Mocean WEC: Blue Horizon Mocean Energy, Blackfish Engineering Design Limited, Industrial Systems and Controls Ltd, Supply Design Ltd, AJS Design Engineering Ltd, Leask Marine Ltd, Aquatera Ltd, The European Marine Energy Centre Ltd, Orcades Marine Management Consultants Ltd, Oceaneering, MAESTRO Marine LLC, Budapest University of Technology and Economics.[13] £3,324,720[14]
At sea demonstration of the Archimedes Waveswing AWS Ocean Energy, Quoceant Ltd, Pelagic Innovation Ltd, Orcades Marine Management Consultants Ltd, 4c Engineering, Malin Group Ltd.[15] £3,321,226[14]
16 May 2019[16] CS

Stage 3

Cost of Energy Optimised by Reinforced Learning (CEORL) MaxSim Ltd, REOptimize Systems, AquaHarmonics Inc, Wave Conundrums Consulting, University of Edinburgh, Quoceant Ltd, Caelulum Ltd, Marine Systems Modelling £475,000
Adaptive hierarchical model predictive control of wave energy converters Queen Mary University of London, Mocean Energy Ltd., University of Exeter £461,345
5 Dec 2019[17] QCS Stage 1 Pull and Lock Marine (PALM) Connection System Apollo £47,850 Progressed to Stage 2
C-DART Quick Connection System Blackfish Engineering Ltd, Skua Marine Ltd. £69,050 Progressed to Stage 2
SEMC (Subsea Electrical & Mooring Connector) Ditrel Industrial S.L., Fundación TECNALIA Research & Innovation, Highland Design Engineering Ltd (trading as 4c Engineering). £69,800
MECmate Nova Innovation Ltd, Wave Venture Ltd. £68,900 Progressed to Stage 2
Q-Connect Quoceant Ltd, EMEC, Inyanga Maritime Ltd. £69,344 Progressed to Stage 2
Rocksteady WEC Mooring and Electrical Connection Subsea Riser Products Ltd, 2H Offshore Engineering Ltd, CETO Wave Energy UK Ltd, CorPower Ocean Ltd, InterMoor Ltd, TE Connectivity Ltd. £69,602
THOR-QCS (Tension Hookup Operation and Retrieval - QCS) TTI Marine Renewables Ltd, Tension Technology International Ltd. £66,675
27 Mar 2020[18] SMMP Stage 3 CREATE (Stage 3) - Concrete as a Technology Enabler Ove Arup & Partners Ltd, K2Management Lda, British Precast Concrete Federation Ltd, Carnegie Clean Energy, AWS Ocean Energy Ltd, BAM Nuttall Ltd.[19] £0.5m
Netbuoy III Tension Technology International Ltd, Griffon Hoverwork Ltd, Kelvin Hydrodynamics Laboratory - University of Strathclyde, International Centre for Island Technology (Heriot Watt University - ICIT, Orkney Campus), PSG Marine & Logistics Ltd. [20] £0.5m
14 Jul 2020[21] QCS Stage 2 Pull and Lock Marine (PALM) Apollo Progressed to Stage 3
C-DART Blackfish Engineering Design Progressed to Stage 3
MECmate Nova Innovation
Q-Connect Quoceant Progressed to Stage 3
5 Jul 2021[22] QCS Stage 3 Pull and Lock Marine (PALM) Apollo Offshore Engineering
C-DART Blackfish Engineering Design
Q-Connect Quoceant
20 Oct 2023[23] DG

Stage 1

4c Engineering £250k between five projects Progressed to Stage 2
AWS Ocean Energy
Southampton and UTC
WaveX
TTI Renewables Progressed to Stage 2
1 Aug 2024[24] DG

Stage 1

4c Engineering £400k between two projects
TTI Renewables

References

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