Request for Tenders
Request for Tenders
now closed
The Request for Tenders for EuropeWave’s PCP programme closed on 1 October 2021.
All applications are now being reviewed by the project team and a group of independent experts. The contract awards will be announced publicly in early 2022.
EuropeWave online information session
A free-of-charge webinar was held on 13 July, providing step-by-step guidance on the details of the RfT and the application process.
If you weren’t able to attend, you can watch the recording, and view the PPT slides and Q&A transcript.
Background to the EuropeWave PCP
This contract notice invites interested operators to submit tenders for the EuropeWave pre-commercial procurement (PCP).
This Request for Tender is the first and only open call to companies active in the wave energy sector. Only projects that are accepted in this Request for Tender will be eligible to continue to the later stages of the programme.
The EuropeWave PCP aims to accelerate the design, development, and demonstration of cost-effective wave energy converter (WEC) systems to produce clean electricity, advance promising designs for wave energy converter systems to a point from which they are ready to proceed to a first of a kind commercial-scale design and testing programme and commercial exploitation through other national/regional programmes and/or private sector investment.
The main technical challenges to be addressed may be expressed in terms of:
- Performance – obtain quantitative evidence of power capture and conversion capability and increase confidence in yield predictions from simulations.
- Survivability – demonstrate effective survival strategies.
- Availability – demonstrate levels of availability through reliable prototype operation.
- Affordability – increase confidence in estimations of the technology costs (capital and operational) and the requirements to achieve a LCOE which is competitive in the target market.
The culmination of the EuropeWave PCP programme (Phase 3) will see prototypes, at substantial scale and with fully representative subsystems, deployed at the open-water facilities of the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Scotland and the Biscay Marine Energy Platform (BiMEP) in the Basque Country and operated for a minimum period to demonstrate device performance, reliability and cost.
Physical model testing in earlier phases is expected to take place in Instituto de Hidráulica Ambiental de Cantabria (IHC) and FloWave Ocean Energy Research Facility (FloWave).
