Five validation scenarios aim to validate the three tools: the structured innovation, stage gate and deployment & assessment tools at different aggregation levels. The industrial partners solved real wave energy use cases by using the DTOcean+ suite with real input regarding their technology and the relevant deployment sites. The objectives focused on different aspects such as: creating an innovative wave energy converter concept, finding innovative solutions for a utility-scale device, defining an objective technology development stage and improving device performances for moving a step forward along the innovation path and to optimise array layout. During the validation activity, the industrial partners worked in a strong cooperative way together with academic partners and modules developers to jointly solve software’s errors and improve modules functionalities and relevant interconnection. This enhancement process led to four software releases: from v0.9.0 (02/07/21) till V1.1.1, the optimised version that achieved the TRL6 was issued for public use on the 31st of August 2021.

Partners of the project: Tecnalia, The University of Edinburgh, Energy Systems Catapult, Wave Energy Scotland, France Energies Marines, WavEC Offshore Renewables, Aalborg University, EDF, Enel Green Power, Naval Energies, Bureau Veritas, IDOM, Nova Innovation, CorPower Ocean, Open Cascade, EDP, Orbital Marine Power, Sabella.

Funding: This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement n° 785921.