Wave firms get £7m development cash

Two new wave energy devices have landed £7.7 million from a Scottish Government agency to try to harness the power of the sea.

Both firms – Edinburgh-based Mocean Energy and AWS Ocean Energy from Inverness – will use the funds to build half-scale machines and test them in real ocean conditions at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney.

It is thought this will lead to the technologies being developed at full-scale in the years ahead.

Mocean’s Blue Horizon is a floating, hinged structure – while AWS has developed a fullysubmerged point absorber named the Archimedes Waveswing. The Scottish Government has provided more than £30m to develop wave energy.