Offshore staff
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — CorPower Ocean has installed its first commercial Wave Energy Converter offshore northern Portugal.
The CorPower C4 system was launched at the port of Viana do Castello, then towed to the Aguçadoura site 4 km offshore. It was then connected to a pre-installed UMACK anchor on the seabed and linked to Portugal’s national grid through a subsea export cable.
It will now undergo a commissioning, with functions and operational modes being gradually verified, and operations and maintenance methods for offshore service access, device retrieval and tow-back to the base in Viana do Castelo also undergoing tests.
Previously the C4 previously completed a one-year dry test program with simulated wave loading in Stockholm, in order to fine-tune and debug the system. Technology includes inherent storm protection for extreme conditions and phase control for amplified power capture in regular sea states.
This is part of the Hiwave-5 project co-funded by the Swedish Energy Agency and Portugal 2020 through AICEP Global (Norte2020) and CCDR-N. CorPower Ocean also has financial supported from EIT InnoEnergy, the European Commission, Wave Energy Scotland, CoreSpring New Technology, ALMI Invest Greentech, SEB Greentech VC and other private investors.
Other forms of support come from power utilities and project developers looking to commercialize wave energy technology, such as the EU-SCORES project partners ENEL Green Power, EDP and Simply Blue Group.
09.06.2023
