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OPERA SIGNED

Open Sea Operating Experience to Reduce Wave Energy Cost

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EC-Contrib. €

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Project "OPERA" data sheet

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Coordinator	FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION Organization address address: PARQUE CIENTIFICO Y TECNOLOGICO DE BIZKAIA, ASTONDO BIDEA, EDIFICIO 700 city: DERIO BIZKAIA postcode: 48160 website: www.tecnalia.com contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	Spain [ES]
Project website	http://www.opera-h2020.eu
Total cost	5˙741˙263 €
EC max contribution	5˙741˙263 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.3.3.2.4. (Develop geothermal, hydro, marine and other renewable energy options) 2. H2020-EU.3.3.2.2. (Develop efficient, reliable and cost-competitive solar energy systems) 3. H2020-EU.3.3.2.1. (Develop the full potential of wind energy)
Code Call	H2020-LCE-2015-1-two-stage
Funding Scheme	RIA
Starting year	2016
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2016-02-01 to 2019-07-31

Partnership

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION Organization address address: PARQUE CIENTIFICO Y TECNOLOGICO DE BIZKAIA, ASTONDO BIDEA, EDIFICIO 700 city: DERIO BIZKAIA postcode: 48160 website: www.tecnalia.com contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	ES (DERIO BIZKAIA)	coordinator	1˙096˙687.00
2	OCEANTEC ENERGIAS MARINAS SL OCEANTEC ENERGIAS MARINAS SL Organization address address: PARQUE TECNOLOGICO DE BIZKAIA, ASTONDO BIDEA, EDIF 612 city: DERIO postcode: 48170 website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	ES (DERIO)	participant	747˙252.00
3	THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER Organization address address: THE QUEEN'S DRIVE NORTHCOTE HOUSE city: EXETER postcode: EX4 4QJ website: www.ex.ac.uk contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	UK (EXETER)	participant	671˙787.00
4	KYMANER-TECNOLOGIAS ENERGETICAS LDA KYMANER-TECNOLOGIAS ENERGETICAS LDA Organization address address: ESTRADA PACO DO LUMIAR CAMPUS DO LUMINAR EDIFICIO SALA 1026 city: LISBOA postcode: 1649 038 website: www.kymaner.com contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	PT (LISBOA)	participant	579˙000.00
5	UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK - NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK - NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK Organization address address: WESTERN ROAD city: Cork postcode: T12 YN60 website: www.ucc.ie contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	IE (Cork)	participant	459˙750.00
6	BISCAY MARINE ENERGY PLATFORM SA BISCAY MARINE ENERGY PLATFORM SA Organization address address: CL ATALAIA 2, BAJO city: LEMOIZ postcode: 48620 website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	ES (LEMOIZ)	participant	420˙375.00
7	THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH Organization address address: OLD COLLEGE, SOUTH BRIDGE city: EDINBURGH postcode: EH8 9YL website: www.ed.ac.uk contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	UK (EDINBURGH)	participant	402˙750.00
8	IDOM CONSULTING, ENGINEERING, ARCHITECTURE S.A.U. IDOM CONSULTING, ENGINEERING, ARCHITECTURE S.A.U. Organization address address: AV ZARANDOA 23 city: BILBAO postcode: 48015 website: www.idom.com contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	ES (BILBAO)	participant	401˙228.00
9	INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TECNICO INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TECNICO Organization address address: AVENIDA ROVISCO PAIS 1 city: LISBOA postcode: 1049-001 website: www.ist.utl.pt contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	PT (LISBOA)	participant	359˙788.00
10	ENTE VASCO DE LA ENERGIA ENTE VASCO DE LA ENERGIA Organization address address: Alameda Urquijo Edificio Plaza Bizkaia 36, 1º city: BILBAO postcode: 48011 website: www.eve.es contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	ES (BILBAO)	participant	315˙750.00
11	Global Maritime Consultancy Ltd. Global Maritime Consultancy Ltd. Organization address address: Gutter Lane 44 city: London postcode: EC2V 6BR website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	UK (London)	participant	133˙125.00
12	DNV GL UK LIMITED DNV GL UK LIMITED Organization address address: 30 STAMFORD STREET 4TH FLOOR city: LONDON postcode: SE1 9LQ website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	UK (LONDON)	participant	116˙500.00
13	IBERDROLA ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION UK LIMITED IBERDROLA ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION UK LIMITED Organization address address: 10 TECHNOLOGY AVENUE HAMILTON INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY PARK city: BLANTYRE GLASGOW postcode: G72 0HT website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	UK (BLANTYRE GLASGOW)	participant	37˙268.00

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Project objective

Europe is endowed with abundant wave energy which could cover some 10% of its electricity needs with a clean, predictable and job-creating resource, which EU companies are at the forefront exploiting with little dependence on foreign suppliers.

There remain important technical challenges to bring down costs to within investors’ reach, as a top priority open-sea operating experience must be analysed to permit the focus of R&D efforts on identifying and solving problems uncovered in open-sea deployments. However, to this day, most wave energy R&D does not have access to open-sea operating data as they are not shared by the companies that sponsored open-sea tests.

OPERA will remove this roadblock by collecting and sharing two years of open-sea operating data of a floating oscillating water column wave energy converter. In addition the project will be the first open-sea deployment for four cost-reducing innovations that will be advanced from TRL3-4 to TRL5. Together, these four innovations have a long-term cost reduction potential of over 50%. These are: a 50% more efficient turbine, latching and predictive control, a shared mooring system for wave energy similar to those that have reduced mooring costs 50% in aquaculture, and an elastomeric mooring tether that reduces peak loads at the hull-mooring connection 70% and thus addresses one of the most pressing challenges for structural survivability of wave energy devices.

Documenting and sharing this open-sea experience will also induce a step-change in our knowledge of risk and uncertainties, costs and societal and environmental impacts of wave energy. The consortium brings together world leaders in wave energy research from four European countries and the IPR owner and most advanced teams to exploit each of these innovations.

Last but not least, the project brings national in-cash co-financing of over €2 million to directly fund the open-sea testing.

Deliverables

List of deliverables.
Fault ride-through demonstrator	Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes	2020-02-25 17:23:35
Extending wave energy converter power quality dataset	Documents, reports	2020-02-25 17:23:34
Recommendations for WEC mooring guidelines and standards	Documents, reports	2020-02-25 17:23:34
Uncertainty in wave energy converter power performance assessment	Documents, reports	2020-02-25 17:23:34
Mooring open-sea operating data analysis	Documents, reports	2020-02-25 17:23:35
Shoreline OWC wave power plant control algorithms	Documents, reports	2020-02-25 17:23:33
Data management plan (final version)	Open Research Data Pilot	2020-02-25 17:23:33
Evaluation of dissemination and communication activities (update)	Documents, reports	2020-02-25 17:23:33
Plan for dissemination and communication (final version)	Documents, reports	2020-02-25 17:23:33
Operating data input for models of levelised and society cost and life cycle assessment for wave energy	Documents, reports	2020-02-25 17:23:33
Turbine and electrical equipment performance and reliability in shoreline OWC wave plant	Documents, reports	2020-02-25 17:23:31
Operational model for offshore operation for wave energy converters	Other	2020-02-25 17:23:32
Evaluation of dissemination and communication activities (first version)	Documents, reports	2020-02-25 17:23:30
Plan for dissemination and communication (first version)	Documents, reports	2020-02-25 17:23:29
Data management plan (first version)	Documents, reports	2020-02-25 17:23:30
Plan for dissemination and communication (update)	Documents, reports	2020-02-25 17:23:30
Data management plan (update)	Documents, reports	2020-02-25 17:23:30
Communication material (final version)	Documents, reports	2020-02-25 17:23:30
Dedicated project website	Websites, patent fillings, videos etc.	2020-02-25 17:23:29
Wave energy measurement methodologies for IEC/TS	Documents, reports	2020-02-25 17:23:29
Turbine-generator set laboratory tests in variable unidirectional flow	Documents, reports	2020-02-25 17:23:30
Communication material (first version)	Documents, reports	2020-02-25 17:23:30
Tracking metrics for wave energy technology performance	Documents, reports	2020-02-25 17:23:35
Recommendations to TC114 from real-case applications of wave energy technical specifications	Documents, reports	2020-02-25 17:23:35

Take a look to the deliverables list in detail: detailed list of OPERA deliverables.

Publications

List of publications.
year	authors and title	journal	last update
2020	FranÃ§ois-Xavier FaÃ¿, JoÃ£o C. Henriques, James Kelly, Markus Mueller, Moahammad Abusara, Wanan Sheng, Marga Marcos Comparative assessment of control strategies for the biradial turbine in the Mutriku OWC plant published pages: 2766-2784, ISSN: 0960-1481, DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2019.08.074	Renewable Energy 146	2020-02-25
2020	FranÃ§ois-Xavier FaÃ¿, Eider Robles, Marga Marcos, Endika Aldaiturriaga, Eduardo F. Camacho Sea trial results of a predictive algorithm at the Mutriku Wave power plant and controllers assessment based on a detailed plant model published pages: 1725-1745, ISSN: 0960-1481, DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2019.07.129	Renewable Energy 146	2020-02-25
2019	Tianna Bloise Thomaz, David Crooks, Encarni Medina-Lopez, Leonore van Velzen, Henry Jeffrey, Joseba Lopez Mendia, Raul Rodriguez Arias, Pablo Ruiz Minguela O&M Models for Ocean Energy Converters: Calibrating through Real Sea Data published pages: 2475, ISSN: 1996-1073, DOI: 10.3390/en12132475	Energies 12/13	2020-02-25
2017	JoÃ£o C.C. Henriques, JoÃ£o M. Lemos, LuÃs EÃ§a, LuÃs M.C. Gato, AntÃ³nio F.O. FalcÃ£o A high-order Discontinuous Galerkin Method with mesh refinement for optimal control published pages: 70-82, ISSN: 0005-1098, DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2017.07.029	Automatica 85	2020-02-25
2018	T. Gordelier, D. Parish, P.R. Thies, S. Weller, P. Davies, P.Y. Le Gac, L. Johanning Assessing the performance durability of elastomeric moorings: Assembly investigations enhanced by sub-component tests published pages: 411-424, ISSN: 0029-8018, DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2018.02.014	Ocean Engineering 155	2020-02-25
2016	J.C.C. Henriques, J.C.C. Portillo, L.M.C. Gato, R.P.F. Gomes, D.N. Ferreira, A.F.O. FalcÃ£o Design of oscillating-water-column wave energy converters with an application to self-powered sensor buoys published pages: 852-867, ISSN: 0360-5442, DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2016.06.054	Energy 112	2020-02-25

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