THE WETFEET PROJECT
Wave Energy Transition to Future by Evolution of Engineering and Technology
Recent experience in wave energy has revealed issues with reliability of technical components, survivability, high development costs and risks, long time to market, as well as industrial scalability of proposed and tested technologies.
However, wave energy is technically feasible and has vast potential to fulfill part of the global demand for a clean and safe energy source so as to integrate the backbone of a secure energy system in the next few decades and contribute to the creation of jobs in the Eu and woldwide.
Having substantial insight into successes and drawbacks in past developments and existing concepts, the promoters have identified ‘breakthrough features’ that address the above mentioned obstacles, i.e. components, systems and processes, as well as the respective IP. These breakthroughs are applied to two wave concepts, the OWC and the Symphony, under development by members of the consortium.
WETFEET partners gathered at EWTEC2017 – the 12th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference - to present their papers. The event took place from the 27th of August to the 1st of September 2017 in Cork, Ireland. Check the list of papers.
WETFEET was presented by partner Keri Collins of the University of Plymouth at the Port Eliot Festival, Cornwall, that took place from the 27th to the 30th of July 2017.
In the month of April WETFEET partners were active with two set of experimental runs performed in the FloWave facility in Edinburgh at a 1:40 scale.
