AW Energy validates technology for commercial production of energy … – Observer

After testing several prototypes off the beach Almagreira in Peniche, since 2012 and power calculation of measurements and analysis occurred during 2014, the Finnish said in a statement have found the appropriate technology to resist the waves of force with more than eight feet high, which have been registered. “The response of the structure for these charges was then predicted and compared during the sea trials last year and has now been confirmed,” the statement said.

Quoted in the press release, the administrator Aw Energy Tuula Mäki stressed “The results are valuable, as they help in the optimization of the technology project.” “Ensuring a reasonable level of security, reduces uncertainty in the modeling process and the investment costs,” he said.

The prototype validation killowatts 350 (kw) allows investors to move in 2016 to phase Commercial energy production project from the movement of the waves. This is an investment of 25 million euros to build a park for the production of wave energy.

In October, another of the leaders of the Finnish company, John Lilijelund, had said that “in periods that technology was on the seabed, the turbines had never stops and that the tests were very successful to enter the commercial phase of the project. “

The energy produced with drive installed on the seabed is now enough to feed a village with 120 houses and 360 inhabitants.

The expansion of the project and the efficiency of the technology lead researchers to predict a production of 11, 4 gigawatts / hour per year, enough to power 5,500 homes and 16,500 inhabitants, equivalent to half of the Peniche county and higher than the population of municipalities as Arruda dos Vinhos, Bombarral or Obidos. Prosecutors equate the hypothesis proceed with the construction of units with an output of 500 KW or even 1MW and, secondly, “expand the objectives and install more units”, depending on the economic return.

goal of AW Energy company will in the future to create a worldwide wave energy park with an installed capacity between 50 and 100 megawatts (MW), an investment that will amount to EUR 100 million and put Portugal on line front in the segment of world production of energy from wave motion.

Since 2007, the technology has been tested for the first time in the world, under the sea, five miles from the coast and, since 2012, the energy produced is to be injected into the network, with the sale of energy to charge the Eneólica.