UK: Wave energy collaboration leads to prestigious award
June 1st, 2009
By Emma Jackson
After years of collaboration between Queen's University Belfast and renewable energy company Aquamarine Power, the Oyster wave energy converter has been named top innovation at the 2009 British Renewable Energy Awards.
The Oyster, now in its first stage of deployment at the European Marine Energy Centre off the coast of Scotland's Orkney Isles, uses the movement of passing near-shore waves to activate its oscillator, pumping high-pressure sea water through a pipeline to a seaside converter where it is made into hydroelectric power.
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