MARMOK-A-5 celebrates its first anniversary in the water connected to the grid
The OPERA project team is very excited with this landmark and congratulates OCEANTEC for their significant achievement. Following the deployment of the MARMOK-A-5 device in October 2016 and later commissioning work, the first kW was injected into the grid on 13th...
INEA reviews technical progress of H2020 OPERA project in Brussels
Eight team members of the OPERA Project and Project Officer Ms. Francesca Harris met in Brussels on 24th October to review the main achievements and lessons learnt during the first 18 months of project implementation. After a brief overview of the Project Coordinator...
OPERA Consortium awarded the Yoshio Masuda Memorial Price at EWTEC 2017
The H2020 OPERA project received the Yoshio Masuda Memorial prize for its contribution to the 12th European Wave and Tidal Conference (12th EWTEC) held from the 27th to 1st of September in Cork, Ireland. The 12th EWTEC was focused to the commercialisation of the...
Novel biradial turbine-generator set tested at laboratory under variable unidirectional flow
The air turbine driving an electrical generator is an essential component of the wave energy plant where the wave-induced pneumatic energy is converted into useful electrical energy. The turbine is subject to much more demanding conditions than more conventional...
