The £2 million demonstrator project, called Renewables for Subsea Power, has connected a wave energy converter built by Mocean Energy with an underwater battery developed by Verlume.
Wednesday, 21 Apr 21
Wave power specialists, Mocean Energy, have unveiled the company’s Blue X wave energy prototype which will take to the seas in Orkney, Scotland, in May 2021.
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The 20 m long, 38 t wave machine has been fabricated wholly in Scotland and will be deployed at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC)’s Scapa Flow test site for sea trials initially, and then later deployed at EMEC’s large scale Billia Croo test site in summer 2021.
In 2022, the wave pioneers plan to connect the device to a subsea battery which will be used to power a remotely operated autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV).