A £2 MILLION collaborative project to power underwater equipment with wave energy and subsea battery storage has been deployed in the seas off Orkney.
The demonstrator project, named Renewables for Subsea Power (RSP), has connected the "Blue X" wave energy converter built by Edinburgh company Mocean Energy with Aberdeen-based intelligent energy management specialist Verlume's "Halo" underwater battery.
The two technologies are being tested five kilometres east of Orkney's main island, Mainland. During this minimum four-month test programme, they will provide low-carbon power and communication to infrastructure including oil services company Baker Hughes' subsea controls equipment and a "resident" underwater autonomous vehicle provided by Transmark Subsea.
