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The Pelamis Wave Energy Converter was a technology that used the motion of ocean surface waves to create electricity. The machine was made up of connected sections which flex and bend as waves pass; it is this motion which is used to generate electricity.
Developed by the now defunct [1] Scottish company Pelamis Wave Power (formerly Ocean Power Delivery), the Pelamis became the first offshore wave machine to generate electricity into the grid, when it was first connected to the UK grid in 2004.[2] Pelamis Wave Power then went on to build and test five additional Pelamis machines: three first-generation P1 machines, which were tested in a farm off the coast of Portugal in 2009, and two second-generation machines, the Pelamis P2, were tested off Orkney between 2010 and 2014. The company went into administration in November 2014, with the intellectual property transferred to the Scottish Government body Wave Energy Scotland.[3]
- ^ "Wave power firm Pelamis calls in administrators". 21 November 2014. Archived from the original on 5 August 2023. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
- ^ "Update on EMEC activities, resource description, and characterisation of wave-induced velocities in a tidal flow". Archived from the original on 20 January 2012. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
- ^ "Wave Energy Scotland Briefing Note" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 November 2016. Retrieved 13 November 2016.