Carnegie Wave Energy’s wave energy powered seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant in Australia is fully operational.
The Carnegie plant is co-located with the Perth Energy project on Garden Island. It was commissioned earlier in the year and is now fully integrated with the Ceto wave energy power plant.
The plant is therefore capable of running off the grid or from the wave energy project.
The first bottle of wave-powered desalinated water produced was presented to the Western Australian Minister for Water the Honourable Mia Davies by Carnegie’s chief operating officer Greg Allen.
The desalination pilot plant was manufactured and supplied by MAK Water Industrial Solutions with Carnegie signing an agency agreement to act as the exclusive agent for MAK Water in South America earlier this year.
The agency agreement has now been extended to include remote islands to capitalise on the opportunity for high quality, containerised desalination solutions in these locations.
The first joint Carnegie/MAK Water island opportunity is currently underway with MAK Water’s desalination experts already undertaking the first activities of a process of technical review, site upgrades and capital replacement at four sites on remote Indian Ocean Islands.
Image: Carnegie’s wave energy device (Carnegie)
