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20 Mar 2012
Stockholm,--Swedish state-owned utility Vattenfall is working with Scottish wave energy technology company Pelamis Wave Power to build a wave energy farm off the southwestern Shetland coast of Scotland. The wave energy project, a joint venture called Aegir Wave Power, will use 11 Pelamis Wave Power Wave Energy Converters. These will produce 10 MW of capacity serving 8,500 households.
The Pelamis Wave Power device converts the motion of the waves into renewable energy. It is a semi-submerged unit composed of five cylindrical sections linked by hinged joints, which move with the waves. This movement pumps fluid through hydraulic motors that drive an electrical generator to produce power. The hydraulic systems are housed inside each joint.
Aegir Wave Power, of which Vattenfall owns 62%, was granted an agreement for lease by the Crown Estate for the Shetland site in May 2011. The joint venture is currently conducting environmental and resource assessments ahead of an expected planning application to be submitted to Marine Scotland in 2014.
Vattenfall has also signed an agreement with Scotland's ocean energy research and development center, the European Marine Energy Center, for the final berth in their wave energy test site at Billia Croo in Orkney to study the latest Pelamis Wave Power wave energy device by 2013.
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