Funding to focus on wave and tidal technologies
AWS Ocean Energy and Marine Current Turbines (MCT) have been awarded a total of £600,000 by the Technology Strategy Board and EPSRC to develop their wave and tidal energy technologies.
AWS Ocean Energy and its project partner, Strathclyde University, have received £350,000 while MCT and project partners Queen’s University Belfast, Mojo Maritime and Edinburgh University have secured a grant of £250,000.
Funding to AWS follows support given earlier in July by the Scottish government’s WATERS programme (Wave and Tidal Energy: Research, Development and Demonstration Support).
Both funding streams will be used by AWS to further develop its AWS-III device, a ring-shaped multi-cell surface-floating wave power system, the result of almost two years of intensive research and development work.
According to AWS, a single utility-scale AWS-III, measuring around 60m in diameter, will be capable of generating up to 2.5MW of continuous power.
MCT will use its latest funds to develop a fully submerged SeaGen tidal turbine that can be deployed in deepwater sites where there are large tidal ranges or significant wave environments.
The project will build on the success of the company’s SeaGen tidal system, which has been generating electricity into the grid from Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland, since 2008.
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