Wave Hub brings wave energy to the shores, first phase of construction complete

We stumbled across the Wave Hub project before, and what will be the world’s largest wave farm and also UK’s first Low Carbon Economic Area, is currently being built as planned. Since the 1st of August, the deployment of the Wave Hub has begun, with engineers working hard on the cable ship Nordica to put the system into place. The Wave Hub project basically a four-way socket, installed 50 meters down the seabed 16 kilometers away from the shore. It will be connected using a 50-megawatt-capacity cable, with the other end hooked on to an electricity substation in Hayle. Different wave-powered energy generators will be connected to the Wave Hub, instead of being hooked on individually to the grid. The hub will help up to four wave-energy conversion machines to be plugged into the hub at a time.

Here’s wishing the project all the luck it needs to complete according to the remaining plans without facing hitches. After all, the world needs clean and green renewable energy and this project will help in its creation!
[Newscientist]