Research & Development
Projet
DTOCEAN+
Advanced design tools for ocean energy systems innovation, development and deployment
- Duration: 40 months (2018-2021)
- Budget: €8,000K
Context
The Ocean Energy Roadmap indicates that ocean energy could meet 10% of the European Union’s electricity demand by 2050. The seas and oceans could therefore play an important role in meeting one of Europe’s biggest challenges today. This is to ensure the energy transition from a system based on fossil and imported fuels to a flexible and interconnected system based on clean, renewable and infinite domestic resources.
The technologies for exploiting wave and tidal resources are not yet mature enough to be used on a large scale because of the still very high LCOE. This pitfall can be addressed with appropriate tools and processes that support market growth and technological innovation.
Objective
- To develop the 2nd generation of a suite of open source software tools for the design and optimisation of wave and tidal farms
Main achievements
Identification of end user needs
Development of numerical tools for structured innovation, stage-gating, deployment and evaluation of wave and tidal farms, from the subsystem to the whole farm
Integration of the tools and testing with real world deployments in order to achieve a TRL6 software
Market analysis of the ocean energy sector
Resources generated
TOOLS
- Software suite: DTOCEAN+
- Additional documentation: Guidelines for installation | Technical report
- Scenario creation: Tool | User guide
TRAINING MATERIAL
- Webinar #1 – DTOCEAN+ user needs consultation
- Webinar #2 – Digital representation of standard data formats for ocean energy systems
- Webinar #3 – Stage gate design tool for ocean energy
- Webinar #4 – Structured innovation design tool for ocean energy
- Training session #1 – Stage gate tool
- Training session #2 – Deployment and assessment tools
Conclusion
DTOCEAN+ project made it to develop and demonstrate an open source sotftware suite of second generation design tools for ocean energy technologies including sub-systems, energy capture devices and arrays. These tools support the entire technology innovation process, from concept, through development, to deployment. More broadly, the project also provided an industry standard for communicating technology descriptions throughout the sector. To complement the numerical work, an extensive market analysis of the ocean energy sector is publicly available.
Partners
This project was led by Tecnalia.
Financement
This project received funding from the European Research and Innovation Programme Horizon 2020.
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To go further
Deliverable D2.1
Results from user-groups consultation
Deliverable D2.2
Functional requirements and metrics of 2nd generation design tools
Deliverable D2.3
Demonstration methodology
Deliverable D3.1
Technical requirements for the implementation of structured innovation in ocean energy systems
Deliverable D3.2
Structured Innovation design tool – Alpha version
Deliverable D3.3
Testing and verification results of the structured innovation tool – Beta version
Deliverable D4.1
Technical requirements for the implementation of a worldclass stage gate assessment framework in ocean energy
Deliverable D4.2
Stage Gate tool – Alpha version
Deliverable D4.3
Testing and verification results of the stage gate tool – Beta version
Deliverable D5.1
Technical requirements for the deployment design tools
Deliverable D5.2
Site characterisation – Alpha version
Deliverable D5.3
Energy capture tools – Alpha version
Deliverable D5.4
Energy transformation tools – Alpha version
Deliverable D5.5
Energy delivery tools – Alpha version
Deliverable D5.6
Station keeping tools – Alpha version
Deliverable D5.7
Logistics and marine operations tools – Alpha version
Deliverable D5.8
Testing and verification results of the deployment design tools – Beta version
Deliverable D6.1
Technical requirements for the assessment design tools
Deliverable D6.2
Performance and energy yield tools – Alpha version
Deliverable D6.3
Reliability, availability, maintainability and survivability – Alpha version
Deliverable D6.4
System lifetime costs tools – Alpha version
Deliverable D6.5
Environmental and social acceptance tools – Alpha version
Deliverable D6.6
Testing and verification results of the assessment design tools – Beta version
Deliverable D7.1
Standard data formats of ocean energy systems
Deliverable D7.2
Detailed description of demonstration scenarios
Deliverable D7.3
Scenarios input data
Deliverable D7.5
Database visualisation and maintenance tool
Deliverable D7.6
Full suite of design tools for devices and arrays
Deliverable D7.7
Demonstration results of integrated design tools for wave energy
Deliverable D7.8
Demonstration results of integrated design tools for tidal energy
Deliverable D7.9
Overall technical and sector recommendations
Deliverable D8.1
Potential markets for ocean energy
Deliverable D8.2
Analysis of the European supply chain
Deliverable D8.3
Feasibility and cost-benefit analysis
Deliverable D8.4
Developing ocean energy standards for business management models in ocean energy
Deliverable D8.5
Relevant legal, institutional, and political frameworks
