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AWS bags more development cash
Published 28.07.2010 11:16:58 by John Bradbury
Scottish based AWS Ocean Energy has been another of the beneficiaries of development cash from the UK's Technology Strategy Board to further marine power generation. AWS, whose prototype floating wave power machine has already been tested in Loch Ness, has been granted £350,000 for further research and development of its marine power system.
The funding is part of a £7 million package of support for nine marine wave and tidal systems granted by the ETB with support from the UK government. Another beneficiary is MCT based in Bristol, which is progressing its SeaGen system for deeper water installation.
For AWS, the ETB funding comes just a month after the company received cash from the Scottish government's Waters – Wave and Tidal Energy Research - programme.
“As with WATERS, our application for funding was approved after careful scrutiny by the Technology Strategy Board, and so it is another positive statement about our R&D work to date,” stated Simon Grey, chief executive of AWS.
He added: “Our trials on Loch Ness will restart in September for a six week period and thereafter a detailed assessment of the trial results will be undertaken before we start building and then deploy a full-scale version of one of the wave absorption cells.”
His company is working on a single utility-scale AWS-III device – a ring-shaped multi-cell floating wave power system - 60 metres (200 ft) in diameter, which could generate up to 2.5 Megawatts (MW) of continuous power.
Eventually, with industrial and utility partners, the company is looking to launch a 12-cell, 2.5MW pre-commercial demonstrator in 2012 and then sell the technology commercially.
Other beneficiaries of the ETB grants include Aquamarine Power, Aviation Enterprises, Fred Olsen Energy, Green-Tide Turbines, Offshore Wave Energy, Small Hydro and Tidal Generation.
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