Finistère …
part of Region Bretagne
An international competitiveness cluster
Universities
& High
School
2000
graduates /
year
Major
companies
& 159 SMEs
(28 500 emp.)
315 members
develop innovative products and services
116 cooperation projects representing
400 M€ R&D budget
over 5 themes:
2 900
public &
private
researchers
Maritime safety and maritime security
Shipbuilding and leisure boatbuilding
Marine, fossil and renewable
energy resources (inc. ocean
energy-renewable energy)
Marine biological resources
Coastal environment planning and
development
National Collaborations
Innovative Technologies
WINFLO
• Goal / innovation : The 5 MW prototype will be installed off the
Brittany coast at depths of over 50 meters and will be connected to the
electricity grid. It will require a specially designed, lightweight robust
turbine housing that will be erected on a semi-submersible platform
anchored to the seabed using catenary mooring cables.
• Global amount of R&D : 38,9 M€
• Companies: NASS & WIND, DCNS, SAIPEM, (through its subsidiary
SOFRESID Engineering), In Vivo Environnement.
• Research centres: Ifremer, ENSTA Bretagne.
Innovative Technologies
DIWET
• Goal / innovation : 3,5 MW offshore floating wind
turbine is erected on a tension leg platform (TLP). This
inovative concept is dedicated to deep offshore
application
• Global amount of R&D : 17,8 M€
• Companies: Blue H France, Institut de la corrosion,
Timolor, Lorima, Actimar, Astrium.
• Research centres: UBO, École Centrale de Nantes,
CETI
Innovative Technologies
SABELLA
• Goal / innovation : Exploitation of tidal currents energy through a fully
immerged turbine. A pre-industrial 10 meters turbine (350 KW) will be
installed in Brittany.
• Global amount of R&D : 10,2M€
• Companies: Sabella SAS, SAIPEM
(through its subsidiary SOFRESID Engineering),
Dourmap, CIB-Meunier, In Vivo Environnement,
Institut de la corrosion
• Research centres: UBO, Irenav, EGIM Marseille.
Innovative Technologies
ORCA
• Goal / innovation :
Demonstrator of a 1 MW tidal current turbine
• Global amount of R&D : 28 M€
• Companies: ALSTOM, EDF, STX,
NEXANS, SECTOR, Stat-Marine,
• Research centres: ECN, IFREMER,
IUEM, CETIM, INP Toulouse, ARTS.
Innovative Technologies
MEGAWATFORCE
• Goal / innovation : the MegaWatForce
underwater turbine will harness the power of currents.
A key feature is that no electricity will pass underwater: water under pressure
will pass along a submerged pipe to where the electricity is produced, namely
a turbine generator installed on shore or on a floatting platform.
• Global amount of R&D : 8,2 M€
• Companies: Guinard Energies, Doris Engineering,
Freyssinet, BEC.
• Research centres:EPFL, Ifremer
Innovative Technologies
BLUSTREAM
• Goal / innovation : the Blustream
underwater turbine will harness the power of currents.
• Global amount of R&D : 11 M€
• Companies: Le Gaz Integral, Guinard Energies,
Bernard&Bonnefond.
• Research centres: Ifremer, Ensta Bretagne
Innovative Technologies
BILBOQUET
• Goal / innovation : Bilboquet
project aims at creating a new
high-output electricity generating
system, based on wave energy conversion,
using the movement of a guided buoy to drive a
generator.
• Amount of R&D : 3,8 M€
• Companies: D2M, CMD, CervVal, Breizadic,
Adetel Equipment, Oceanide, Bureau Véritas
• Research center: Ifremer
Innovative Technologies
ESPADON
• Goal / innovation : The ESPADON project will demonstrate the
industrial and economic feasibility of a cold water pipeline for the
production of Ocean Thermal Energy (OTEC), will ensure its reliability
and will measure its environmental impact. The project will provide the
basis for developing an OTEC plant capable of generating renewable
energy for isolated offshore sites and islands.
• Global amount of R&D : 6 M€
• Companies: DCNS, Total
• Research center: Ifremer
Innovative Technologies
SAFEOIL
• Goal / innovation : produce biofuel
from the use of microalgaes cultivated in a
former kaolin quarry
• Global amount of R&D : 2,1 M€
• Companies: SARP Industries, Sodaf
Geo Étanchéité, Imerys ceramics France
• Research centres: IFREMER.
Innovative Technologies
BLIDAR
• Goal / innovation : alternative solution
to offshore measurement mast to measure
wind speed profile
• Global amount of R&D : 1,8 M€
• Companies: La Compagnie du Vent, NKE, LEOSPHERE.
• Research centres: IFREMER.
Innovative Technologies
SIMEO
• Goal / innovation : Instrumented buoy for
ecology monitoring. To be installed in offshore
wind park, it will be able to measure the number
of fish, cetaceans and birds cruising in the area
and record their trajectory and behaviours
• Global amount of R&D : 3 M€
• Companies: BIOTOPE, NKE.
• Research centres:IRD, IFREMER.