Theme 3: Marine energy resources

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The aim of the ORCA project is to trial, at a pre-selected site at Paimpol Bréhat, a full-scale version of all the principal elements needed to create high-power tidal turbines. The project comprises the study, design, manufacture, installation, testing and maintenance of the equipment, as well as studies of environmental conditions.

Creating such a machine poses considerable technological challenges in terms of design, logistics, manufacture and installation, as well as non-technological obstacles that are only likely to arise with full-scale demonstration projects.

The stakes are extremely high, as success means the development of a wholly innovative form of marine renewable technology, capable of offering tidal farms with an energy output in excess of 100MW.

The ORCA project is recognised jointly by Pôle Mer Bretagne and the EMC2 and Tenerrdis technopoles.
 

ORCA project partners :

Companies

• ALSTOM Hydro France, Nantes, Grenoble and Paimpol, project director

• EDF, Paris and Paimpol Bréhat

• Sector, Lyon and Paris

• STX, Nantes and Lorient

• Stat-marine, Nîmes and La Seyne sur Mer

•  Nexans, Lyon
   

Research centre 

• ECN, Nantes

• Ifremer, Brest

• ARTS/Ensam, Chambery

• INP, Toulouse

• IUEM LDO, Brest

• Océaniques (LDO - Oceanic Studies Lab) at the Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (IUEM - European University Institute of the Sea)

• IUEM LEMAR (Marine environmental sciences lab), Brest

• IUEM AMURE (Development and applications of marine and littoral resources and ecosystems), Brest

• CETIM, Nantes

  
  
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