Open Source Design Tool to Optimize Wave & Tidal Arrays Launched

DTOcean has been produced through a three-year collaborative project funded by the European Commission. It gathered 18 international partners including utilities, project developers, industrial suppliers and R&D organisations, coordinated by the University of Edinburgh.

Henry Jeffrey, coordinator of the DT Ocean project, said: “Access to high quality design tools is a pre-requisite for reducing costs in complex engineering projects, such as wave and tidal arrays. With the world’s first ocean energy arrays now under construction, the launch of DTOcean is very timely”.
“The launch of the software presents a great opportunity for the industry and research organisations to engage with the DTOcean software to make it work for them. There is already an active and growing support community around DTOcean, and we will hope to see this thrive as the sector develops”, concluded Mr Jeffrey.

The DTOcean software package is now available as a free download along with manuals and tutorials from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre website: https://setis.ec.europa.eu/dt-ocean/

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