Members of the international consortium of the WECHULL+ project, focused on the development of innovative solutions for floating structures for the marine renewable energy sector, holded a working meeting at the facilities of the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN). The meeting brings together the eight project partners, representing Sweden, Poland, the Netherlands, Ireland and Spain: Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), TU Delft, CETO Wave Energy Ireland, Ocean

We’re excited to highlight a new publication from Jian Tan, George Lavidas, and their collaborators, exploring an important topic in offshore hydrodynamics and structural analysis! The research was conducted as part of the WECHULL+ project, funded by CETPartnership 2022 Joint Call for Research Proposals, supporting innovation and collaboration toward a sustainable energy future. 🌊⚡ And the best part—it’s open access! 🤩 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apor.2026.105141 hashtag#Offs

On November 19–20, 2025, the WECHULL+ consortium gathered for two productive days hosted by Pekabex in Gdańsk. The meeting focused on advancing our mission:“Sustainable Concrete Material Leading to Improved Substructures for Offshore Renewable Energy Technologies.” ✅ Highlights from the meeting: Technical sessions on material development, structural optimization, prototype validation, and Impact Assessment. Strategic discussions on future testing plans to validate innovative

We’re excited to spotlight a new contribution from Jian Tan, Yufeng Zhang, Avni Jain, and George Lavidas from Delft University of Technology, recently published in the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering! 🎉 Their latest paper,“The Impacts of Power Take-Off Surviving Strategies on the Extreme Load Estimations of Wave Energy Converters,”explores how different Power Take-Off (PTO) control strategies influence the structural loads experienced by wave energy converters (WEC

We are thrilled to announce that Tabea Engelfried, Stefano Cucurachi, and George Lavidas from Delft University of Technology have made a big breakthrough🎉! Their work has been published in the well-known journal, Cleaner Environmental Systems. The paper presents a cradle-to-grave full life cycle assessment (LCA) study for a generic point absorber WEC based on a fully transparent and adaptable life cycle inventory. Within the study, the environmental impacts of a single point

On February 3-4, 2025, the WECHULL+ project consortium held a productive and engaging meeting at RISE in Borås, Sweden. The meeting brought together key partners, including Ocean Harvesting Technologies (SE), TUDelft (NL), SolarDuck (NL), PLOCAN (ES), Carnegie (IE), Politechnika Gdańska (PL), Pekabex (PL), to discuss the progress and future directions of the WECHULL+ project. Hosted by RISE, the project coordinator, the consortium meeting provided an excellent platform for pa

The first publication from WECHULL+ is out 🎉 The work from Jian and George at Delft University of Technology has just been published in Elsevier journal Ocean Engineering. The paper describes a new model for wave energy converters, which is 1000 times faster (!) than traditional time-domain models, and includes multivariate nonlinear hydrostatic effects. This is the model that we are employing in WECHULL+, so it is a nice thing to get it out to the scientific community😊 One

Today we have made the first trial casting of many to come in WECHULL+ CETP where we build on the work that was carried out in the...

The WECHULL+ consortia met up in Gdansk during two days (6-7th of March) to discuss what actions to take to get the prototypes in to the...

PRESS RELEASE: The WECHULL+ project (Sustainable Concrete Material Leading to Improved Substructures for Offshore Renewable Energy...

The official Kick-off Meeting (KoM) was held on December 20th 2023 via teams. The meeting was structured as a 2-hour meeting to get to...