Carnegie Clean Energy has secured a key role as the technology partner in the COIN (Control-Oriented INnovations for future wave energy farms) Project, a major €4 million European initiative.
Fully funded by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe Programme, the COIN Project is focused on developing and advancing cutting-edge innovations to significantly enhance the reliability, survivability, and sustainability of future wave energy farms.
As the key technology partner, Carnegie’s CETO technology will serve as the reference wave energy converter, providing the ideal platform to test and validate these new technologies under realistic marine conditions.

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                                                            Image: COIN consortium gathers for the kick-off meeting

 

Project Goals and Key Innovations

The primary aim of the COIN Project is to drive down the cost of wave energy by targeting a 30% reduction in the Levelised Cost of Energy (LCOE).
Over the 48-month duration of the project, the consortium will focus on delivering three key innovations:

1.  AI-Enhanced Wave Prediction System: Utilising advanced Artificial Intelligence to provide real-time, highly accurate wave prediction data.
2.  Digital-Twin-Based Health Monitoring and Health-Aware Control Framework: Creating a virtual, real-time replica of the CETO system to monitor its health, predict maintenance needs, and enable more effective control in dynamic ocean environments.
3.  Novel Connector System: Developing a next-generation mooring connector system for CETO to improve its robustness and long-term survivability in extreme marine conditions.

Carnegie’s Strategic Role:

CETO’s unique, fully submerged design and advanced Power Take-Off (PTO) system make it the optimal technology for testing and validating the COIN innovations. Carnegie Technologies Spain is representing Carnegie within the consortium, ensuring the project’s developments are directly applied to CETO’s commercialisation pathway.

The COIN Project will deepen Carnegie’s collaboration with existing partners from the ACHIEVE Programme:

• Quoceant Limited will utilise lessons from ACHIEVE to scale up CETO’s mooring connectors and solutions for commercial deployments.
• Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) will continue its work on advanced control systems, ensuring CETO arrays are optimally managed for efficiency and resilience.

The COIN Consortium

The project is coordinated by the Technische Universität Braunschweig (Germany) and brings together a consortium of nine leading European organizations from both industry and academia:

• Technische Universität Braunschweig (Coordinator) – Germany
• Carnegie Technologies Spain S.L. – Basque Country / Spain
• IFP Energies Nouvelles – France
• Mondragon Goi Eskola Politeknikoa – Spain
• WavEC Offshore Renewables – Portugal
• Aalborg Universitet – Denmark
• Politecnico di Torino – Italy
• Quoceant Limited – United Kingdom
• Hewlett-Packard Galway Limited – Ireland