It’s a problem that has long thwarted wave energy pioneers – how to transform the slow back and forth motion of waves into a reliable and cost-effective stream of electricity. Now two Edinburgh firms – Artemis Intelligent Power and Quoceant – have together secured £2.5 million from Scottish agency Wave Energy Scotland to trial a prototype power take off system which helps to do just that. The duo has developed a technology dubbed ‘Quantor’ which for the first time includes th

Floating offshore wind can draw on experiences of wave energy developers to help understand and overcome the challenges of operating and mooring in the mid-water depths from 40-80m. Image; Hywind floating wind turbine being assembled in the Åmøy Fjord. Image credit: Lars Christopher - originally posted to Flickr as Hywind. As deployment of offshore wind grows, competition for sites is seeing developers seeking to deploy their technology in deeper water, and more exposed sites

It’s a busy and exciting week for Quoceant this week. As part of our Novel Wave Energy Convertor technology project for Wave Energy Scotland we’re testing our Ectacti-Hull technology in the FloWave wave tank, throwing many different waves at the model and measuring how it behaves. Wave Energy Converters must be both robustly survivable and produce sufficient average yield to deliver attractive economic performance. Many different Wave Energy Converter (WEC) concepts, forms,