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Wave Hub, Cornwall, England
OPT aims to be one of the first developers to install its PowerBuoy technology at Wave Hub, an innovative renewable energy project in the South West of England, off the North Cornwall coast, near Hayle, which aims to create the UK's first offshore facility for the demonstration and proving of arrays of wave energy generation devices. The Wave Hub provides a shared infrastructure for connection to the onshore electricity grid, a structured approach to consenting issues, and an opportunity to test wave energy converter arrays over a long period of time. The Wave Hub site, for example, already has the permits and consents obtained for up to 20 MW of wave energy generation. The scheme will provide a well defined and monitored site with electrical connection to the onshore electricity grid, and will be this first of its kind in the world. OPTs deployment at Wave Hub is a major step towards the commercial application of multiple PowerBuoy arrays and future financing of utility scale projects. OPT proposes to install an array of PowerBuoys totaling up to 5 MW and will ‘plug’ into the Wave Hub infrastructure. Each array of PowerBuoys will connect to an Underwater Substation Pod which will network, collect and transform the power from the PowerBuoys for export to the Wave Hub cable infrastructure and onshore grid at Hayle. Installation of the PowerBuoys will be phased over several years. Further details on the Wave Hub are available at www.wavehub.co.uk.
1 Under proposed legislation, a each MegaWatt-hour of marine renewable energy generates two (2) Marine Renewable Obligation Certificates (MROC). |
