Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, recently visited Pelamis Wave Power (PWP) to see the final assembly of the P2 wave energy converter.
Miliband was invited to climb inside the new Pelamis to see the fully assembled joint and power take-off system first hand.
Miliband, who was accompanied on his visit by Dave Rogers, E.ON UK’s Regional Director for Climate & Renewables and Adrian Chatterton, head of construction for E.ON UK, said that the project is pulling the technology and sector forward.
“It is exactly the type of project that our Marine Renewables Proving Fund was designed to support, it will lay a solid foundation for the Government’s commercial aspirations for the sector moving forward,” Miliband said.
PWP recently launched the first tubes of the E.ON P2 Pelamis machine. With specialist heavy-lift equipment from Mammoet, the 190-tonne tubes were moved from PWP’s fabrication hall to the nearby quayside. From there they were individually lowered into Leith Docks A further three tubes are to be launched this month for final assembly and ballasting.
PWP and its project partner E.ON recently secured £4.8 million from the Carbon Trust’s Marine Renewables Proving Fund (MRPF). The funding will support the manufacture, deployment and testing of company’s second generation Pelamis P2 machine. The first P2 machine is currently under construction at PWP’s headquarters in Leith and will be deployed at the European Marine Energy Centre, Orkney, later this year. The MRPF scheme will allow PWP to increase the scope and pace of trials planned for this machine.
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Carbon Trust: http://social.waveenergytoday.com/search/node/Carbon+Trust
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