Albatern Wave Energy is planning to install a wave energy array that will produce power for a working fish farm in Mingary Bay, UK.
The work on the project that will see Albatern’s 45kW WaveNet array installed alongside the fish farm to produce power for the farm’s feed barge is still ongoing.
The clean power generated from waves will replace the expensive and polluting diesel generators traditionally used to power the fish farms.
The wave powered fish farm is part of the £720,000 partnership, announced by Wave Energy Scotland in October 2015, between Albatern and seafood company Marine Harvest to demonstrate wave energy converters as a means of powering offshore aquaculture installations.
Note: The original article titled ‘Video: Scottish waves power a working fish farm’ has been amended at the request of Albatern which stated that the construction works on the project are still in progress, and that the WaveNet array has not yet been commissioned. The video featured in the previous version of the article has been removed by the company.