Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited has shared that its Perth Wave Energy Project is currently meeting all development milestones as scheduled.
The project involves the commercial demonstration of Carnegie’s proprietary CETO wave technology in a 5MW project located in the waters off Garden Island in Western Australia.
Upon its completion, the project will be the first commercial scale wave energy project to operate in Australia. The primary aim of the project is to demonstrate the CETO technology in commercial operation for the first time however, it will also deliver Carnegie its first project based revenues from the sale of power. The project will utilise Carnegie’s $12.5 million LEED grant from the Western Australian Government announced earlier this year. Detailed cost and design activities associated with Stage 2 will be undertaken during 2010 with construction and commissioning scheduled for 2011.
The first stage of the Perth Wave Energy project involves the deployment of a single CETO 3 unit, hydraulic energy dissipation system and instrumentation buoy. The hydraulic system and instrument buoy avoids the cost associated with a physical connection to shore for the initial single unit installation.
The foundation installation activities for the full scale deployment involving the jack up rig (JUP) are complete. Completion activities to prepare the foundation for deployment are underway.
According to Carnegie, the first of the CETO 3 components are now being delivered ahead of pre-deployment testing.
Manufacturers have been selected for all other key components including the pump, base attachment, buoyant actuator (BA), hydraulic system and instrumentation buoy in Australia, Europe and the UK and the components are at various stages of the manufacturing process.
Offshore testing on scaled CETO 3 units continues at Carnegie’s Fremantle Wave Energy Research Facility including the testing of instrumentation, control and hydraulic equipment and Carnegie’s unique energy relief buoyant actuator (ERBA). Additionally, onshore high cycle test activities of key CETO 3 components is also ongoing with this work providing invaluable service life performance data to verify the expected performance of the full scale system.
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