The company has now established itself in a suburb to Aarhus. A team of experienced construction engineers work on constructing and specify in detail a full-scale prototype, which is expected to be launched ultimo 2008.

The construction phase is performed in cooperation with institutes that have specialised knowledge about specific parts of the construction, and suppliers of the most important components.

The construction of the prototype itself will be conducted by suppliers at their own location on basis of the documentation and the specifications the above-mentioned team of engineers has produced.

The prototype is expected to be placed on a not yet determined location in the North Sea. It will be instrumented thoroughly in preparation for establishing a foundation for the further development of the concept.

For the time being the company is exclusively a development company, since it will be another 3-5 years before the products can be commercialised.

History

The concept has been invented by inventor Erik Skaarup, Tagesmindevej 1, DK-2820 Gentofte, around 1990. Since 1990 a vast number of practical tests have been conducted. These tests have shown how it is possible to optimise the way wave energy is captured; in part the shape of the channelling shovels that “grabs” both speed energy like the potential energy in the waves, and the introduction of the suppression plate which serves to keep the wave plane steady in the Z-direction. A number of tests have been carried out both in private auspice and by acknowledged institutions.

The time has now come where a prototype will be built to prove its capability in full-scale and in the right environment. For the first time a complete unity will be constructed where wave energy is transformed into alternating current, which can be led on shore through a net cable from which an electric company will buy the electricity.

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