Danish company Crestwing’s Tordenskiold prototype wave energy device has completed 14 months of sea tests and will now undergo further pool testing.
The company said the device will now be tested at the Danish Hydraulic Institute (DHI) in collaboration with ABB.
“This collaboration is to ensure that they get the best possible, developed PTO system both for the further tests of the prototype Tordenskiold and an upcoming full-scale plant,” Crestwind said.
ABB will also oversee the data collection at the DHI pool tests in May.
Crestwing board chairman Peter Hostgaard-Jensen said: “We are in a good development process, which I am sure will bring us forward.
“It is an important milestone that we have passed the mechanical part of our machine.
“Now there are other tasks and challenges that we must solve. It just means that we continue our development work a little longer.”
He added that a commercial device could be ready by 2024 for deployment off Norway.