Pelamis Wave Power is widely recognised as the world’s most advanced wave energy developer. Pelamis works with project developers, energy companies and utilities seeking to harness wave energy in order to meet the global need for clean, sustainable, renewable power generation.
About the project
The ability to accurately measure the wave energy resource at a given site is essential for the successful development of wave farms. The likelihood of success must be assessed before a project goes ahead.
In this KTP, Pelamis worked with the University of Southampton's Engineering and the Environment unit, and the National Oceanography Centre Southampton, to characterise the wave energy resource at potential sites for wave energy farms in near shore and offshore environments.
Benefits
- Energy productivity can now be assessed at any location in the world, a unique selling proposition, providing a significant competitor advantage
- Improved the service that PWP can offer to customers, increasing sales of Pelamis machines
- Skills were successfully migrated into the company, with added, increased levels of awareness of the use and importance of statistical techniques
- A key achievement was the development of a robust algorithm, considerably more accurate than any existing algorithm. In addition to its practical importance, this was a substantial piece of academic work, now published
- Academic and commercial links that will be of future support and value have been strengthened.
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