South West England Wave Hub Project
Wave Hub is a renewable energy project in the South West of England that aims to create the UK's first offshore facility for the demonstration and proving of the operation of wave energy generation devices.

An artist's impression of the Wave Hub. The wave energy converters are the 'MRC1000' being developed by ORECon of Plymouth (right) and 'Pelamis' by Ocean Power Delivery of Edinburgh (left).
Image by Industrial Art Studio Ltd, St Ives, Cornwall.
www.ind-art.co.uk


FIRST WAVE BUOY DATA RELEASED
The first set of data about the wave energy climate off the north Cornish coast has been released. Regen SW initiated the Wave Buoy project in January 2005 to help speed up the installation of the UK's first wave farms to generate clean electricity. The Wave Buoy, funded by the Npower juice fund, records waves, tidal current and the presence of marine wildlife. Data shows strong wave energy potential in the area with an average wave height (Hmax) of 2.3m over the three-month period. The largest wave recorded (Hmax) was8.8m (or 28 ft) high on the 13 February 2005. Wave Buoy continues to collect data at its location in the South West. The data gathered from the Wave Buoy will help wave energy device designers, and potential investors, understand the environment within which demonstration wave energy projects might operate, while enabling more accurate predictions about the amount of clean energy that could be produced. For further information and to view the data see: