Press release 03 November 2025:
The FOREST project (Future Ocean Renewable Energy System Technologies) has officially launched with support from the European Commission under the Horizon Europe Programme. With a budget of €4 million, the project brings together eight partners from the UK, Portugal, Spain and Sweden to drive advancements in subsea components and digital technologies that will set new global standards for durability, reliability and efficiency in ocean energy systems.
Coordinated by the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) based in Orkney, Scotland, the three-year project aims to enhance the performance of ocean energy arrays, reduce the levelized cost of energy (LCOE), foster sustainability of ocean energy systems, and accelerate market readiness. FOREST will also generate and share knowledge on how to operate ocean energy farms, improving their availability, maintainability, reliability, survivability and
sustainability.
The project will deliver three major innovations:
-33 kV super dynamic cables and connection hub for ocean energy arrays, designed by SubConnected;
-A subsea cable quick connector system to streamline deployment and maintenance,
developed by Apollo; and
-A cutting-edge optical measurement platform by Indeximate incorporating artificial
intelligence and machine learning from CENER and Intelligent Plant to measure cable and device health and optimise array performance.
These innovations will be rigorously tested at EMEC’s world-renowned wave and tidal test sites in Orkney, Scotland, working in collaboration with wave and tidal energy developer companies. Bureau Veritas will ensure compliance with the highest international certification standards. The consortium includes: EMEC (Coordinator), Indeximate, Intelligent Plant, Bureau Veritas and Apollo (UK); WavEC Offshore Renewables (Portugal); CENER – National Renewable Energy Centre (Spain); SubConnected (Sweden).
Peter Child, FOREST Project Manager for Sub Connected said “Sub Connected is delighted to be chosen to play a key role in this major project. Using the knowledge and experience Sub Connected and our long term partners have built up over the last decade Sub Connected will design and build the inter array cable system for this project. Using super dynamic electric marine cables upgraded to 33 kV with a spar hub buoy, the system can handle the movements experienced in Floating ocean energy devices including wind, wave, tidal and solar. Sub Connected is a system integrator and with our partners provide a complete turn-key installation from concept to hand-over and support including marine operations and deployment. This is the second major HORIZON project Sub Connected has been selected to work on this year. The second is a project to engineer a 66 kV inter array cable system for Floating Offshore wind which started in October 2025. Together these two projects show Sub Connected is a leading company in Floating Offshore Energy projects.”
For more information contact:
Peter Child – peter.child@subconnected.com (SubConnected Forest Project Manager)
Stefan Krusell – stefan.krusell@subconnected.com (SubConnected Verti Go Project Manager)
Press release 14 October 2025:
Sub Connected AB partition in VERTI-GO consortium secures €15M from Horizon Europe. The 15 million Euro funding call by Horizon Europe is now secured by SeaTwirl AB and theconsortium behind the project application “VERTI-GO”. The VERTI-GO project will demonstrate SeaTwirl’s floating wind turbine technology with a 2MW turbine including the design, fabrication, installation and operation together with Sub Connected patented design for grid connection at sea. The design phase is estimated to conclude around the end of 2026, followed by the construction and operations phase that is planned to last until end of 2029.
On May 22nd it was announced that SeaTwirl’s project VERTI-GO has been selected as the successful applicant for funding under the EU program “Demonstrations of innovative floating wind concepts” and was thereby invited by Horizon Europe into the grant preparation stage of the funding call of 15 million Euro. The grant preparation phase was successfully finalized with the signing of the grant and consortium agreements, and the project will start as planned on October 1st, 2025.
The VERTI-GO project is led by Technical Coordinator SeaTwirl and the Project Coordinator University College Cork. The project consortium includes: EDP – Cnet Centre for New Energy Technologies SA, Greenov, Next Fabrication, Sub Connected AB, Sowento, RSTER, PNO, Bureau Veritas, and Zorlu Enerji. The project advisory board includes DNV.
” We are very proud of this achievement, and what the VERTI-GO team has accomplished
pulling this together. This is an exceptional milestone for Sub Connected, and I am excited about working with all partners”, says Ulf Lindelöf, CEO of Sub Connected AB.