Carnegie Wave Energy: CETO 6 Concept Design Complete

Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited (ASX: CWE) is pleased to announce that the conceptual design phase of its CETO 6 Project at Garden Island has now been completed.

The CETO 6 concept design is the culmination of work commenced in 2012 and incorporates lessons learnt from the Perth Wave Energy Project, recent wave tank testing in Scotland, internal design and modelling studies and design work undertaken with Carnegie's supply chain.

This CETO 6 design delivers a number of advantages over previous CETO generations including an approximate four times increase in rated capacity to 1MW, the removal of heavy offshore lifts (and associated costly heavy lift vessels), simplified installation and maintenance and more advanced control systems. The system locates the power generation (power take off or PTO) inside a contained vessel (Pod) inside the Buoyant Actuator (BA). Locating the PTO inside the Buoyant Actuator allows more advanced control increasing system efficiency. The use of an electrical export cable (or umbilical) to deliver the power onshore also reduces transmission losses when compared to the use of a pipeline with high pressure fluid as used in the Perth Wave Energy Project's CETO 5 technology generation. The incorporation of the power generation equipment offshore also increases the market for CETO as it can take advantage of deeper, more distant to shore wave resources and sites.

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