French wave energy technology developer Seaturns plans a pre-commercial offshore project in Mauritius that in the first phase will install 2 MW of wave energy converters connected to the Mauritian electricity grid.

Waves crashing at Hayling. Photo by Alastair Campbell. License: CC BY-SA 2.0.

The company said last week it has been selected as a winner of the NSEPCRET Round 3 call for projects (National Scheme for Emerging Project Concepts Based on Renewable Energy Technologies), led by the Mauritius Renewable Energy Agency (MARENA). The scheme is designed to back innovative renewable energy technologies and provides a power purchase agreement (PPA) with the national utility of Mauritius, according to the annocunement.

The 2-MW pilot project is intended to demonstrate Seaturns’ technology under real operating conditions and could be scaled up to 10 MW. The French company is developing the project in partnership with Mauritian maritime sector player Taylor Smith Group (TSG).

Seaturns at the same time started a full-scale prototype demonstration in the Atlantic Ocean in France at the end of 2025, which will continue in spring 2026 in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.

“This project is a perfect continuation of the full-scale trials we are conducting in 2026 and 2027; it will be the ideal technical and commercial demonstration for our future farms, and it will be a way to gain comprehensive experience throughout the lifecycle of our technology,” said Seaturns founder Vincent Tournerie.