Reason for hope

Ocean Energy

Ocean waves hold enor­mous amounts of ener­gy. Accord­ing to esti­mates by the Inter­gov­ern­men­tal Pan­el on Cli­mate Change (IPCC), wave pow­er plants could pro­duce 29,500 TWh of elec­tric­i­ty world­wide every year. That is almost ten times Europe’s con­sump­tion. So far, how­ev­er, there has been no eco­nom­ic solu­tion to exploit this poten­tial. The WEDUSEA project aims to change this.

The coop­er­a­tion between 14 part­ners from indus­try and research from five coun­tries, fund­ed by the EU and the UK, aims to build the world’s largest float­ing wave-ener­gy device to date off the Scot­tish coast by 2026 with an expect­ed out­put of one megawatt. This future-ori­ent­ed project could make an impor­tant con­tri­bu­tion to the ener­gy tran­si­tion and MR’s prod­ucts help to ensure that elec­tric­i­ty flows reli­ably even on the high seas. 

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