Sub-station for Wave Hub
Work starts this week on the next stage of the pioneering Wave Hub marine energy project with the construction of an onshore electricity sub-station at Hayle in Cornwall.
Wave Hub will create the world’s largest test site for wave energy technology by building a grid-connected socket on the seabed, 10 miles off the coast, to which wave power devices can be connected and their performance evaluated.
The £42m project has been developed by the South West RDA (Regional Development Agency) and is a cornerstone of its strategy to develop a world-class marine energy industry in south-west England.
Contractors Dawnus Construction will this week start preparing the site of the new sub-station that will allow electricity generated out to sea to be fed into the National Grid.
The six-month project will include the installation of more than £1m of electrical equipment, including a monitoring system for wave energy developers to measure how much power their devices produce.
It follows the completion in February of the first phase of work to drill a 200m duct through sand dunes at Hayle where Wave Hub’s subsea-cable will come ashore. It will be linked to onshore cabling threaded through the duct and connected to the new sub-station.
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