FP7 - EQUIMAR project
Programme: FP 7
Project Title: Equitable Testing and Evaluation of Marine Energy
Acronym: Equimar
Duration: 2008-2011
Total Budget : € 5.485.235
Web site: www.equimar.org
Summary: EquiMar is a collaborative FP7 research and development project involving a consortium of 23 partners from 11 member states, representing nearly all aspects of the marine energy sector from universities and developers through to certification agencies. The aim of EquiMar is to deliver a suite of protocols for the equitable evaluation of marine energy converters (based on either tidal or wave energy). These protocols will harmonize testing and evaluation procedures across the wide variety of devices presently available with the aim of accelerating adoption through technology matching and improved understanding of the environmental and economic impacts associated with the deployment of arrays of devices. EquiMar will assess devices through a suite of protocols covering site selection, device engineering design, scaling up of designs, deployment of arrays of devices, environmental impact, in terms of both biological & coastal processes, and economic issues.
Contact person in ISMAR: luciana.bertotti@ismar.cnr.it
Partnership:
- The University of Edinburgh – UK
- Fundación Robotiker – Spain
- University of Strathclyde – UK
- Electricité de France SA – France
- EU Ocean Energy Association – Belgium
- University of Exeter – UK
- University College Cork – Ireland
- Wave Energy Centre – Portugal
- The University of Manchester – UK
- Southampton University – UK
- Institut Français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer – France
- Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche: Istituto di Scienze Marine - Italy
- Det Norske Veritas - Norway
- Teamwork Technology – Netherlands
- Pelamis Wave Power Ltd – UK
- European Marine Energy Centre – UK
- Wave Dragon – Denmark
- Uppsala University - Sweden
- University of St Andrews - UK
- Scottish Association of Marine Sciences - UK
- Feisty Productions - UK
- Aalborg University - Denmark
- Actimar - France
