Mocean Energy’s Blue X wave energy prototype device has been unloaded at Hatston Pier at Kirkwall in Orkney in advance of sea trials in the summer at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC).
Blue X will now undergo trials in Kirkwall Harbour prior to being towed anticlockwise around Orkney to Copland’s Dock in Stromness.
The machine will then be deployed at EMEC’s Scapa Flow test site for sea trials initially, and then later will move to EMEC’s grid connected wave test site at Billia Croo on the west coast of Orkney.
The 20-metre long, 38-tonne wave machine was fabricated in Scotland by Fife fabricator AJS Production and painted by Montrose-based Rybay Corrosion services.