Wave Energy Scotland has awarded a total of £2.25m to eight developers and consortia advancing marine technologies towards commercialisation.
The innovation body said cash of around £300,000 each would push novel wave energy coverter projects through the end of “stage one” of the WES technology development process.
This is the second competitive call made by WES with 37 applications received from across Europe.
Winners include 4C Engineering with the Sea Power Platform; Jules Energy with its WaveTrain; Albatern with WaveNET; Mocean with its hinged raft device; Zyba with its CCell oscillating device; Quoceant with its “automatically inflatable and stowable volume” technology; Checkmate Seaenergy with its Anaconda device; and AWS with a reborn Archimedes Waveswing.
“The projects which have been successful in this call represent new technologies, or significant improvements on current concepts, which have a realistic prospect of delivering a commercially viable device,” said WES parent Highlands and Islands Enterprise.
WES managing director Tim Hurst said: “WES has again received a wide international interest in the call for novel wave energy converters with 169 organisations involved in the applications. These new partnerships represent a superb opportunity to work with a wider spread of companies and academia to develop the winning wave energy converter design.”
WES is fully funded by the Scottish government.
For the full rundown on the latest award winners see the next issue of subscriber-only newsletter reNEWS.
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