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50 Winter 2018 European Energy Innovation

MARINE ENERGY

Project Natick, preparation to deploy Microsoft's datacentre at EMEC Photo: ©Scott EklundRed, Box Pictures

At EMEC’s Billia Croo wave energy the very worst of Orkney’s weather is wave energy array in the UK to use a
test facilities we’re preparing to host Finnish developer Wello Oy’s Penguin single cable.
Belgian developer Laminaria with wave energy converter. The Penguin,
its surge operated attenuator. This which has been on station at our And Swedish developer CorPower
device’s selling point is its unique Billia Croo site since March 2017, recently completed a rigorous
storm protection system that has been subjected to wave heights 18-month test programme for its
lowers the attenuator’s ride height in excess of 18 metres, marking a C3 wave energy converter which
when wave power exceeds nominal milestone in survivability. culminated with ocean trials at
power production. The company EMEC’s scale test site in Scapa Flow.
say this feature prevents the device Wello is currently building a second
undergoing excessive forces, ensuring Penguin device to be installed Just beyond Orkney, the Pentland
power production during even the alongside the current one, as part of Firth is now home to the MeyGen
heaviest of storms, and lowers cost the CEFOW project, early next year. project which, at 6MW rated capacity,
of construction. The ultimate aim is to deploy three is the world’s largest tidal stream
Penguin devices, all connected by a array. MeyGen has generated over
A device that’s already experienced subsea hub, in what will be the first 8GWh of energy to the grid to date.

Magallanes Renovables' ATIR Photo: ©EMEC

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