Grant Agreement: n.º 241402(MARINA Platformt) 

INSTRUMENT: FP7 – Collaborative Project

TOTAL COST: 12.712.770 €

EC CONTRIBUTION: 8.708.660 €

DURATION: 54 months

START DATE: 01 January 2010

CONSORTIUM: 19 partners from 12 countries

PROJECT COORDINATOR: Raul Manzanas, ACCIONA, Spain

PROJECT WEB SITE:www.marina-platform.info

GRANT AGREEMENT: 241402

 

MARINA Platform is a EU collaborative project of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). MARINA will establish a set of equitable and transparent criteria for the evaluation of multi-purpose platforms for marine renewable energy (MRE). Using these criteria, the project will produce two or three realisations of multi-purpose renewable energy platforms. These will be brought to the level of preliminary engineering designs with estimates for energy output, material sizes and weights, platform dimensions, component specifications and other relevant factors. This will allow the resultant new multi-purpose MRE platform designs, validated by advanced modelling and tank-testing at reduced scale, to be taken to the next stage of development, which is the construction of pilot scale platforms for testing at sea.

Title: Marine Renewable Integrated Application Platform – MARINA Platform.

 

KEY WORDS: offshore wind, wave currents, multi-purpose platforms, marine renewable energy, evaluation criteria, design and optimisation tools, new platform design, component engineering, risk assessment, spatial planning, grid connection, environmental monitoring, system integration, reducing costs, preliminary engineering designs, advanced modelling, tank-testing at reduced scale.