WES awarded £2.84 million to 4 projects developers

Wave Energy Scotland (WES) announced that it will be awarding a total of £2.84 million to four wave energy technology developers after successfully competing to join stage two of an innovative technology development programme.

WES selected the four projects as the most promising of eight applications from contractors in stage one of its NWEC programme, which focuses on solutions to capture wave movement. They will now progress to stage two of the programme which is expected to run until autumn 2018. Once this stage concludes, the project teams can apply for stage three funding to develop a scaled prototype device for real sea testing at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney.

The four successful projects progressing to stage two of the NWEC programme are:

1. Lead Company:                    4c Engineering
   Project title:                          ACER2
   Project award:                      £659,515.80

2. Lead Company:                 AWS Ocean Energy Ltd
Project title:                       Improved Archimedes Waveswing
Project award:                   £721,265

3. Lead Company:                Checkmate Seaenergy Ltd
Project title:                      Anaconda Novel Wave Energy Converter Stage 2
Project award:                  £727,135

4. Lead Company:                Mocean Energy Ltd
Project title:                      Mocean WEC: Next-Level Hydrodynamics and Engineering
Project award:                  £729,948