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EU-wide partnership to deliver ‘world-first’ bankable hybrid marine energy parks Major European companies and project developers have joined forces with leading research institutions to unlock large-scale potential of combined wind, wave and offshore floating solar renewable energy sources in the newly launched €45 million marine energy project ‘European Scalable Offshore Renewable Energy Sources (EU-SCORES)’.
Under the project lead of Dutch Marine Energy Centre (DMEC), the EUSCORES consortium partners will work together to showcase the benefits of multi-source offshore parks across Europe by 2025, paving the way for similar bankable projects in the future. The project partners will jointly build on two highly comprehensive and impactful demonstrations. The first one is a 3MW offshore solar photovoltaic (PV) system by Oceans of Energy off the Belgian coast co-located with a bottom fixed windfarm, while the oth-
er one entails a 1.2MW wave energy array by CorPower Ocean in Portugal co-located with a floating wind farm. Aside from DMEC, the EU-SCORES consortium partners include Oceans of Energy, TU Delft, SBM Offshore, POM West-Vlaanderen (POM), RWE Renewables (RWE), CorPower Ocean, Uppsala University, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (LUT), Enel Green Power, RINA Offshore Consultants, INNOSEA – a AqualisBraemar LOC Group company, EDP Labelec, WavEC Offshore Renewables, INESC TEC, Exceedence, and
Western Star Wave – a Simply Blue Group company. The multi-source demonstrations in EU-SCORES aim to showcase the benefits of continuous and more consistent power output enabled through harnessing complementary power sources including wind, sun and waves. This hybrid approach is expected to create a more resilient and stable power system, higher capacity factors and a lower total cost per MWh of power output. These aspects will also improve the business case for green hydrogen production, by al-
