Voith Hydro Wavegen: The wave energy specialists within the Voith-Siemens joint venture. They run the Islay LIMPET 500 plant and are certainly among the world top specialists in oscillating water column (OWC) technology
We heard some good news few weeks ago… we heard some bad news few days ago.
Lets start with the good news.
Wave power plant inaugurated at Mutrik on the Spanish Atlantic coast.
Commissioned by the Basque Energy Board, uses Wavegen breakwater technology, rated 300kW.
It looks like this:
Now the bad news:
RWE npower Renewables have pulled out from the Siadar Wave Energy Project, the 4MW plant under construction on the isle of Lewis and north Harris.
Sounds like RWE prefers to focus on tidal stream technologies.
However, for the moment Voith Hydro is still on the SWEP project. They say that discussions are on going with possible partners.
Fingers crossed
