EU-backed plan offers free test slots to offshore innovators

The fund aims to give smaller innovators access to development and test facilities

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By Darius Snieckus Bristol

 Monday, December 05 2011

Updated: Sunday, November 25 2012

Europe’s smaller offshore renewable energy innovators could get a slice of a new €11m ($15m) scheme that aims to boost access to specialist development and testing facilities across the EU.

The Marine Renewables Infrastructure Network for Energy Technologies (Marinet) plans to offer testing slots at a network of 42 research facilities in ten countries at no charge to small- and medium-sized (SME) technology developers.

Underwritten by funding from the European Commission’s Research Infrastructures programme, Marinet’s aim is to fast-track development of marine renewables by supporting testing of concepts, devices and “industrially relevant research” in wave, tidal and offshore wind energy.

The Marinet initiative will hold at least four rounds of funding through to 2015 for companies linked with the European FP7…

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