Mocean Energy unveils Blue X wave energy converter

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Mocean Energy today unveiled Blue X, the company’s wave energy converter prototype which is set for sea trials following final checks at Rosyth.

Built in Scotland, the 20m long, 38 tonne wave machine will be installed at the European Marine Energy Centre’s Scapa Flow test site before being deployed at EMEC’s large scale Billia Croo test site this summer.

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The manufacture and testing programme is supported by £3.3m from Wave Energy Scotland (WES) through its Novel Wave Energy Converter programme. In a statement, WES managing director Tim Hurst said: “This is a significant milestone for Mocean Energy and for WES. The product of five years of the WES programme and three phases of development for the Mocean technology that has seen the Blue X progress from concept, through wave tank testing and now to a scaled, real sea demonstrator.

“This demonstration of credible wave technology comes at a time when there is a real prospect of a market support mechanism for marine energy, that taken together, will enable wave energy to make a significant contribution to the future Scottish and UK low carbon energy mix needed to meet our net zero obligations.”

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