These 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 tidal energy use cases using the DTOcean+ suite with real input regarding their technology. The objectives focused on different aspects such as: improving a floating tidal energy connection subsystem, assessing and demonstrating the development stage of two tidal energy technologies, validating tidal array deployments at different sites to provide third party evidence, and validating scaling up of a tidal energy drivetrain for a deployment site. During the validation activity, the industrial partners worked in a strong cooperative way 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 integrated tools 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 31 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.