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Mocean Energy’s Blue X wave energy machine has returned to dock after a successful five-month test period at sea.

Mocean Energy unveils £3.3m wave power prototype ahead of Orkney deployment The company plans to use the machine to power a subsea battery and unmanned underwater vessel Sign up to FREE email alerts from businessInsider - Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice Wave power company Mocean Energy has unveiled its new 20-metre long device to be deployed at the European Marine Energy Centr...

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. Advertisement 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 autonomo...

Wave energy prototype unveiled in Fife as it prepares to take to the seas © Supplied by Mocean Energy's Blue Yan Gunawardena, Cameron McNatt, Jon Clarke and Cinthia Medrado from Mocean Energy with Tim Hurst, managing director of Wave Energy Scotland and Arhontia Athanasiou (Mocean Energy) with the Blue X wave energy converter at Forth Ports Rosyth. A wave energy prototype has been unveiled in Fife ahead of sea trials next month. Power specialists Mocean Energy revealed its Blue X machine at a ceremony at Forth Ports Rosyth. Fife fabricator AJS Production built the 20-metre long, 38-tonne wav...

The manufacture and testing programme is supported by £3.3m from Wave Energy Scotland (WES) through its Novel Wave Energy Converter programme. In a statement, WES managing director Tim Hurst said: “This is a significant milestone for Mocean Energy and for WES. The product of five years of the WES programme and three phases of development for the Mocean technology that has seen the Blue X progress from concept, through wave tank testing and now to a scaled, real sea demonstrator. “This demonstration of credible wave technology comes at a time when there is a real prospect of a market sup...