Demonstrating that our global system is easy to deploy and recover without delay - which would entail huge financial losses - and that our solution is acoustically efficient, even at low frequencies, are two of the main objectives of the EIC project.
To achieve these objectives and thus give confidence to our risk-oriented customers, we need to carry out the final sea trial scheduled.
Our challenge is also to adapt and optimise all subsystems depending on the depth, monopile diameter and sea condition while designing as much as possible standard subsystems to allow to reuse them once invested on different wind farm installation works.
To grow, SSQ needs to gain the trust of T&I so that they agree to test it offshore. Considerable sums of money are at stake, so they want to be sure that SSQ works.
For this, it is necessary to have proof that the SSQ works in open seas, and to have the assurance that the SSQ is reliable and does not add operational risks. For the first point, we'd need to carry out a coastal-scale shakedown before going offshore. For the second point, SSQ final design has been reviewed in partnership with T&I to best meet their requirements, and the concept needs to be approved by experts in the field. In that sense, an Advisory Group composed of four major T&I companies is on-going and provides expert feedback on the system, validating most of our orientiations and building confidence with the end-user.
At the same time, we worked hard on preparing the commercial roll-out of the system, with an international study of players and markets, enabling us to update our business plan and identify partners and possible collaborative innovation projects around our SSQ.
As a result, we have been able to identify favourable countries around the world and have already signed several agreements with partners for a number of very promising offers, particularly in the USA, Ireland, Norway and the Northern Europe.
As part of these agreements, we have signed a JIP with curently 4 of the biggest companies in the sector and will be working with them to develop the SSQ so that they can use it on their next 12 sites worldwide. This JIP puts us well on the way to bringing our solution to market after the demonstration planned in EIC.
With these actions and commercial agreements and the demonstrations at model scale made in 2024 and 2025, we were able to launch our private equity fundaising in mid-2025 and get on the right track for our scale-up by 2027/2028.
We also demonstrated for the very first tie operational SSQ acoustic efficiency from 12 to 20dB at low frequencies, even very low ones (50hz), that outperform current Noise Abatement System !
We have fully finalized the complete design of the SSQ, both in full-scale offshore versions and in scaled-down versions for demonstration purposes. Our innovations have been significant, and we have filed five new patents in addition to those already held with the EIC.
