UK’s national innovation agency Innovate UK has awarded a £750,000 (approximately €861,630) grant to a Wiltshire-based company to help advance the technology readiness and performance of its ‘sea snake’ wave energy converter (WEC) and pave the way for future sea trials at the Welsh Marine Energy Test Area (META).
Checkmate Flexible Engineering’s Lobe-Tendon Anaconda WEC captures wave energy through a patented “bulge tube” design, made of an outer tube pulled into lobes by hundreds of internal tendons.