Seatricity will redeploy its Oceanus 2 Wave Energy Convertor at Wave Hub following the winter refit.
Over the next few days, a patented hydraulic pump which was stripped down over the winter for component analysis, will be reassembled at The Cylinder Service Center Ltd of Washington, Tyne & Wear, and is expected to return to Falmouth immediately after Easter.
Once back in Cornwall, the pump will be re-installed on the Oceanus 2 float by A&P Falmouth before the complete device is returned to the water for final checks, re-commissioning of the onboard data-gathering telemetry and monitoring systems and then returned to Wave Hub.
“Like the passage of winter, it has taken a little longer than we’d hoped to get to this point but nothing we have found whilst the device has been ashore has caused us any doubts that the core design and construction of Oceanus 2 is anything but ready to go,” the company stated.
Subject to the successful extension of berthing agreement with WaveHub, Seatricity will add a second Oceanus 2 at EMEC later this year.
Also, Seatricity and EMEC will conduct a feasibility study to examine the potential for establishing a second grid connected array at the EMEC test site.