OCEANS OF ENERGY BV

Their core work

Oceans of Energy is a Dutch SME developing offshore floating solar power systems — photovoltaic arrays engineered to survive open-sea wave and wind conditions. Their technology is designed to be combined with offshore wind farms, sharing grid infrastructure and maritime space to generate more renewable electricity per square kilometre of sea. They contribute real engineering hardware and demonstrator deployments to European multi-use ocean platform consortia, rather than consulting or desk research. For businesses, they are one of the few players in Europe with tested floating PV systems in actual North Sea conditions.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

The two projects show a clear trajectory from joining a broad multi-use ocean platform consortium (UNITED, 2020) with a modest EUR 333k share, to taking a substantially larger role in EU-SCORES (2021–2027) with EUR 7.77M — a 23x jump in budget allocation. This signals growing trust from consortia and a move from participating in mixed-use demos toward large-scale offshore renewable deployment. Their focus has tightened from general marine multi-use toward complementary offshore energy generation.

They are scaling from pilot-scale multi-use platforms toward commercial-scale offshore renewable arrays, making them a timely partner for anyone planning North Sea or Atlantic floating solar and hybrid energy park projects.

How they like to work

They join as a specialist participant, never as coordinator, contributing a specific technology (floating offshore PV) to larger multi-partner consortia. Both projects are Innovation Actions with broad European consortia — 53 unique partners across 14 countries — which suggests they are a hardware contributor plugged into diverse teams rather than a consortium builder. Working with them means getting a focused technology provider, not a project manager.

53 unique consortium partners spread across 14 European countries, heavily weighted toward North Sea and Atlantic-facing nations given their offshore marine focus. Their network is broad and European rather than clustered around a single region.

What sets them apart

Oceans of Energy is one of the very few SMEs in Europe actually deploying and testing floating solar arrays in open ocean conditions, not sheltered lakes or harbours. While many consortia model offshore hybrid energy parks on paper, this company builds and installs the physical PV hardware. For a consortium needing a proven offshore floating PV contributor, there are not many European alternatives — that scarcity is their main strategic value.

Highlights from their portfolio

• EU-SCORES
  Seven-year flagship Innovation Action worth EUR 7.77M to them alone, focused on combining offshore solar, wind and wave into scalable hybrid parks.
• UNITED
  Multi-use offshore platform demonstrator combining energy with aquaculture and environmental goals — an early proof point for their floating PV in mixed-use ocean space.