Carnegie Wave Energy has secured the final berth at Wave Hub, the offshore renewable energy test facility in Cornwall, to demonstrate its next generation wave technology.
Carnegie's UK arm, CETO Wave Energy UK (CWE UK), plans to deploy a 3MW array of its next generation 1MW CETO 6 technology in 2016 from the facility, with the option to expand to 10MW.
CETO, named after a Greek sea goddess, is a fully-submerged technology that produces high pressure water from the power of waves and uses it to generate clean electricity. It can also produce desalinated clean water.
Carnegie is currently building a grid connected three unit wave energy array in Western Australia using its CETO 5 device. CETO 6 will have four times more generating capacity and the company said the Wave Hub site provided more energetic sea conditions.
"Securing a berth at Wave Hub provides Carnegie with a pre-developed site and installed grid connected infrastructure to test its CETO 6 commercial generation technology whilst leveraging off UK technical and commercial supply chain expertise in the heart of the marine renewables industry," commented Carnegie's Executive Director of European Business Development, Kieran O'Brien
Carnegie will occupy the last remaining berth at Wave Hub. Others have been reserved by UK-based Seatricity which plans to install a device this spring prior to building out a 10MW array in the next two years, and Finnish multi-national utilities firm Fortum which has reserved a berth for an array of up to 10MW and will shortly be confirming the wave technology it has selected.
