Cork-based wave energy development company, Ocean Energy, has signed a deal with turbine manufacturer, Dresser-Rand.
Dresser-Rand has a designated product development team specifically tasked to develop air turbines for such devices. The company has agreed to develop and supply turbines for Ocean Energy’s devices.
The Irish company has successfully tested its quarter scale Ocean Energy Buoy over the last two and a half years at the Government’s test site in Galway Bay.
Dresser-Rand vice president and chief marketing officer, Brad Dickson, highlighted that when company’s UK subsidiary, Dresser-Rand Company Ltd., acquired certain assets of Peter Brotherhood last year, the move expanded its renewable energy capabilities. The company has considerable experience in steam turbine systems for combined cycle and cogeneration, and waste-to-energy, among other applications.
According to Dickson, one of the most interesting technologies is the patented air turbine – the HydroAir turbine – specifically targeted at the oscillating water column (OWC) or “wave energy” market.
He mentioned that marine renewable energy is becoming part of the renewable energy mix.
“Capturing just 5% of this theoretical global resource could satisfy 25% of the current global electricity consumption of 18,000 TWh/year. Our HydroAir turbine’s unique energy recovery system can be applied to offshore, near-shore and on-shore applications,” said Dickson.
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