The EU-backed Foresea (Funding Ocean Energy through Strategic European Action) programme has opened its fifth and final call for funding of testing marine renewables at European test centres.
Foresea is an €11m project that offers free access to wave and tidal developers to test their devices at the European Marine Energy Centre in the UK , DMEC in the Netherlands, SEM REV in France and SmartBay in Ireland.
The 5th Foresea call for proposals is open until 25 January.
“This final call will help bridge the gap between FORESEA and a potential follow-up project,” it said.
EMEC programme manager Nic Wallet added: “With less than a year left before the end of the project, we want to ensure that we wring as much value out of Foresea as we can for the benefit of this nascent sector.
“Delivering results through this final call will prove challenging due to time constraints but we are confident that many developers are ready to test innovative technologies.”