Pelamis wave energy converter

Pelamis wave energy converter

The Pelamis Wave Energy Converter is a technology that uses the motion of ocean surface waves to create electricity. The machine is made up of connected sections which flex and bend as waves pass, it is this motion which is used to generate electricity.

Developed by the Scottish company Pelamis Wave Power (formally Ocean Power Delivery), it was the world’s first commercial scale machine to generate electricity into the grid from offshore wave energy and the first to be used in commercial wave farm project. []

Funding for Scotland's first wave farm was announced by the Scottish Executive on 22 February 2007. It will have a installed capacity of 3 MW provided by four Pelamis machines. The farm will be located at the European Marine Test Centre off the coast of Orkney. The funding of just over £4 million is part of a £13 million funding package for marine power in Scotland.

Pelamis Wave Power has also expressed an interest in installing Pelamis devices at the Wave hub development off the north coast of Cornwall, in England and in the Pacific ocean off the coast of Tillamook, Oregon.

Etymology

"Pelamis platurus" is a yellow-bellied sea snake that lives in tropical and subtropical waters. It prefers shallow inshore waters.


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Peniche, Portugal.

See also

*Wave power
*Ocean energy
*Wave farm

References

External links

* [http://www.pelamiswave.com Pelamis Wave Power Ltd.]
* [http://www.emec.org.uk/ The European Marine Energy Test Centre]


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