Critical Components for the Latest Wave Power Technology

A cutting edge, multi-million-pound project is underway as we speak off Orkney in the Atlantic. For a considerable period of time, the wave power industry has struggled to create devices that can create sufficient power to offset the initial high construction and installation costs, until recently that is.

For many years, CorPower Ocean AB and founder Stig Lundb?ck, studied the principles of the operation of the human heart. He based the design of his Dynamic Adaptive Piston Pump Technology on these principles and more recently CorPower has developed this into a compact highly efficient wave power generation system, generically called the “Wave Energy Converter” (WEC). The WEC converts the linear motion of the rise and fall of the waves, via a buoy into rotational motion that can then generate power.

A half scale system is currently being installed off Orkney involving research partners from Portugal, Scotland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden and Germany. Not surprisingly, all eyes are on this prestigious project and only the very best component suppliers are being used to ensure its success.

Subsea Energy Solutions (UK) Ltd. were approached by Corpower to solve a challenge for them. They required a system to protect the cable termination junction box during deployment and retrieval.

The Subsea Energy Solutions SUB-VBR? Vertebrae Bend Restrictors were just the ticket.

Two ID 90 mm, 2.5-metre-long SUB-VBR? Vertebrae Bend Restrictors were supplied along with Cable Protection Bellmouth fittings. The systems were manufactured and delivered within 1 week to the CorPower Ocean Ltd facility at Kirkwall on the island of Orkney, ready for installation and deployment.

Just another great example of Subsea Energy Solutions accepting potential contract penalties and delivering the highest quality products on the critical path, for a rapid vessel mobilisation and installation campaign.