Acronym MUSICA
Category
Aquaculture
Title Multiple-use-of Space for Island Clean Autonomy Programme H2020
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source European Coordinator Gordon Dalton Coordinator email gordon.dalton@plocan.eu
Coordinator institution
PLOCAN - Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (Spain)
Institutions involved
ABT Group - AquaBioTech Group Ltd (Malta) ,
NA - Coral Ltd (Greece) ,
NA - Forkys (Greece) ,
HWU - Heriot-Watt University (United Kingdom) ,
NA - Innosea (France) ,
INSB - INSB Class International Classification Society (Greece) ,
ICoRSA - International Consortium of Research Staff Associations (Ireland) ,
NA - Municipality of Chios (Greece) ,
NA - NeoDyne Ltd (Ireland) ,
DAFNI - Network of Sustainable Greek Islands (Greece) ,
NA - SinnPower GmbH (Germany) ,
UCC - University College Cork (Ireland) ,
UM - University of Malta (Malta) ,
UAEGEAN - University of the Aegean (Greece) ,
Start year 2020 End year 2024 Funding (€) € 9,834,521 Website https://musica-project.eu/ Summary MUSICA will provide a full suite of Blue Growth solutions for small island:
• Three forms of renewable energy (RE) (wind, PV and wave) (total 870kW), providing high RES penetration and competitively affordable electricity. Three forms of RE provide non-correlated supply.
• Innovative energy storage systems on the MUP, provide all required storage for power on the island and platform, as well as electrical output smoothening (compressed water/air storage and batteries).
• Smart energy system for the island, including: demand response, modelling and forecasting based on high flexibility services from distributed generation.
• Desalinated water made by desalination unit on the MUP powered by RES providing 1000m3 fresh water for a water stressed island.
• The MUP will provide “green” support services for island’s aquaculture (pilot 200 tonnes production)
This project will demonstrate that the MUSICA MUP is a viable enabling infrastructure for multiple RES, desalination and BG aquaculture services for small islands, that can share the same space and work synergistically together, sharing supply chains. reducing operating and maintenance costs and solving increasing demand for space.
Keywords
Engineering;
Spatial planning;
Open sea aquaculture;
Offshore renewable energy;
Economy;
Marine Region
62
Aegean Sea (GSA 22)
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Marine Region Map
