RENEWABLE ENERGY
The Morlais Tidal Power Station in Wales is set to offer a“ plug and play” approach to tidal energy developers, helping to reduce costs as operations scale up. The site has the potential to generate enough energy to power 180,000 typical Welsh households. Construction on the project began in 2022 with elements like an onshore substation already completed.
The Ada Foah Wave Farm began as a 400 KW pilot project developed by Swedish company Seabased in 2016, set off the coast of Ghana. The wave farm uses point absorber technology where buoys connected to linear generators move with waves to generate electricity. In 2018, Seabased signed a contract with TC’ s Energy to expand the project to 100 MW and potentially expand to create a wave energy park in the Gulf of Guinea with the potential to generate up to 1,000 MW of power. Phases 2 and 3 of the project are in planning and concept phases, respectively, and phase 4, for a planned 86.02 MW of capacity, has been financed.
CARNEGIE CLEAN ENERGY
The owner and developer of the CETO wave energy system, Carnegie, creates fully submerged, stormresilient technology.
Its ACIEVE project at the Biscay Marine Energy Platform( BiMEP) in Spain’ s Basque Country is set to test CETO technology to the limit.
“ The ACHIEVE Programme’ s CETO deployment at BiMEP is a key step in the CETO commercialisation pathway and has been designed to deliver key technical and commercial outcomes,” said Carnegie’ s CEO Jonathan Fiévez.
OCEAN POWER TECHNOLOGIES( OPT)
The PowerBuoy, OPT’ s flagship product, is deployed internationally including across the US, UK, Spain and Australia.
Its wave parks in the US in Oregon and New Jersey, along with the PowerBuoy Mark 3 and Hybrid PowerBuoy, have demonstrated technical reliability in harsh ocean environments.
OPT’ s grid-connected solutions serve both civilian and defense applications, looking to support commercialisation of wave energy.
206 August 2025