Wave power and batteries to decarbonise subsea operations
A collaborative project to power subsea equipment with wave power and subsea energy storage has been deployed in seas north of Scotland.
The £2m Renewables for Subsea Power (RSP) demonstrator project has connected Mocean Energy’s Blue X wave energy converter with a Halo underwater battery developed by Verlume, an Aberdeen-based intelligent energy management specialist.
The two technologies have been arranged in the seas off Orkney and have now begun a minimum four-month test programme where they will provide low carbon power and communication to infrastructure including Baker Hughes’ subsea controls equipment and an underwater autonomous vehicle provided by Transmark Subsea.
“This is a natural next step for our technology,” Mocean Energy managing director Cameron McNatt said in a statement. “The new test site east off Deerness offers a much more vigorous wave climate and the opportunity to demonstrate the integration of a number of technologies in real sea conditions.”
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has supplied instrumentation to measure the speed and direction of currents during the deployment, whilst Wave Energy Scotland has provided £160,000 to support the integration of the umbilical into the wave energy converter.
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