Wavegen Ltd.

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Wavegen Limited (later Voith Hydro Wavegen Limited) was a wave energy company based in Inverness, Scotland. It was founded in 1990 by Allan Thomson. It was sold to Voith Hydro in 2005, and they closed the company in 2013.

In 2000, Wavegen became the first company in the world to connect a commercial scale wave energy device (LIMPET) to the grid on the Scottish island of Islay. The LIMPET (Land Installed Marine Powered Energy Transformer) is a shoreline device which produces power from an oscillating water column.

Country:

United Kingdom

Marine Energy Documents Related to Wavegen Ltd.

Tethys Engineering is a knowledge hub that contains documents and resources about the technical aspects of marine energy development. The table below contains all of the documents in the Tethys Engineering Knowledge Base associated with Wavegen Ltd..

Total: 4

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Technology

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Title	Author	Date Sort ascending	Type of Content	Technology	Collection Method	Engineering
Methodology for site selection for wave energy projects	Zubiate, L., Villate, J., Torre-Enciso, Y.	September 2009	Conference Paper	Wave	Field Data
Advances in Oscillating Water Column Air Turbine Development	Tease, W., Lees, J., Hall, A.	September 2007	Conference Paper	Current, Axial Flow Turbine, Wave, Oscillating Water Column	Field Data, Modeling	Acoustics, Performance
Dynamic System Modeling of an Oscillating Water Column Wave Power Plant based on Characteristic Curves obtained by Computational Fluid Dynamics to enhance Engineered Reliability	Arlitt, R., Tease, K., Starzmann, R.	September 2007	Conference Paper	Axial Flow Turbine, Wave, Oscillating Water Column	Lab Data, Modeling	Performance
The Development of a Turbo-Generation System for Application in OWC Breakwaters	Heath, T.	September 2007	Conference Paper	Wave		Hydrodynamics