Funding for wave tank facility

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The Peninsula Research Institute for Marine Renewable Energy at Plymouth University has received £1.2m in funding to install a new wave tank testing facility.

The Peninsula Research Institute for Marine Renewable Energy (PRIMaRE) at Plymouth University has received £1.2m in funding to install a new wave tank testing facility.

The wave tanks are being funded by the South West Regional Development Agency (RDA) as part of the agency’s three-year £7.3m investment in PRIMaRE.

The facility will allow model testing in multi-directional waves and variable-direction currents and will also be able to model shallow- and deep-water conditions. It will enable the testing of scale models of wave- and tidal-energy devices individually and in arrays.

The investment has been welcomed by business minister Lord Drayson. He said: ‘This wave tank will play to the UK's strengths - science, engineering, waves and tides - to help us establish a global lead in developing the technologies necessary to produce this renewable-energy supply.

‘Wave technology will be key to the future of energy generation and the south west, the UK's first Low Carbon Economic Area, has the potential and expertise to make this happen,’ added Drayson.

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