What is the BlueInvest Project Pipeline?
See our showcase of innovative projects and entrepreneurs who are shaping the Blue Economy.
Projects consist of innovative, scalable and sustainable business ventures from traditional and emerging sectors of the maritime economy.
The graphs below provide an overview of the country distribution, sector, and TRL of projects currently listed in the BlueInvest Project Pipeline.
Selection Criteria:
Your company is EU-based or from an eligible sea basin region (Georgia, Turkey, Ukraine, Moldova, Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Lebanon, Syria, Libya, Mauritania, United Kingdom, or Norway)
Your project TRL is 4 or higher
Your project sector is in one of the 10 blue economy sectors identified for this initiative
Your solution has a clear sustainable impact on the blue economy
Your project is looking for investment
Project Country
Country in which the project is being developed and / or implemented.
Project Sector
Main blue economy sector the project relates to.
Project TRL
Current technology readiness level of the project.
NoviOcean, Novige AB, Hybrid 1 MW Wave, Wind & Solar Energy Converter
Jan Skjoldhammer is the founder and CEO. Background as an officer, an economics degree, airline pilot, captain, instructor, display pilot, build own race car, made 15x on property deal over eight years, stopped flying to take one of his patent ideas to market, the NoviOcean wave energy converter. Mission innovation Champion, Innovator of the Year.
On a mission: "Saving the climate with profitable wave power".
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NoviOcean is a hybrid 500+kW wave energy converter, now moving into TRL 7, full scale design, construction, and deployment. It has a rectangular shape, 38 x 8 meters, lifts up to 600 tons 10 000 times per day, multiple times more than any other. This enormous force is transferred via the well proven hydraulic cylinder to the likewise well proven Pelton turbine. It is actually the standard hydro power plant, turned upside down, placed on a rectangular float and coupled to a water filled hydraulic cylinder.
On top of the float is 750 sqm / 120 kW solar panels, complementary in power delivery, seasonal and daily.
Solving grid intermittency with blue energy