CorPower Ocean, has signed an agreement to build a 5MW wave energy project at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney, Scotland. Scheduled for deployment in 2029, the 5MW array is expected to become the UK’s largest wave energy project. Deployed at EMEC’s grid-connected Billia Croo wave energy test site, it will comprise 14 wave energy converters, operating for up to 15 years.

This is CorPower Ocean’s second project at EMEC, following testing its C3 WEC at EMEC’s Scapa Flow test site in 2018 through the Wave Energy Scotland programme.

CorPower Ocean has already successfully demonstrated its C4 device off the coast of Portugal, producing electricity for the Portuguese grid.