Pelamis Wave Power Converter feeding Energy into the grid

More info on this at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelamis_Wave_Energy_Converter .

The company was bought by E.ON and the project was killed. At that time, there were working 450 Kilowatt prototypes (see the video). 450 Kilowatt is a power volume that took wind power plants over three decades (about from 1970 to 2000) to achieve.

The technology was then apparently copied by a Chinese company.

The great thing about wave energy that it is the endless ocean surface which both stores the energy, and transports it through space and time.

By this way, the energy can be harvested far away from the time at which the wind was blowing, and far away from the place where it created waves.

As such, wave power is an ideal complement to wind and solar energy, because it can fill up the grid at the times when the latter are lacking - without expensive storage devices, because the storage, which is the ocean surface, is already there.

Following the demise of the company, the P2-001 device, having completed over 15,000 hours of operation, was acquired by Wave Energy Scotland.

That’s slightly over 2 years, and it had to be repeatedly taken away for servicing during that time. That’s not exactly a roaring success.