Carnegie, which isbuilding a grid-connected three-unit development in Western Australiausing its fifth-generation wave-energy converter (WEC) for switch-on this year, aims to deploy the trioof the devices underwater at WaveHub, off Cornwall, southwest England, in 2016, with plans to build out to a 10MW installation later.

“Securing a berth at WaveHub provides Carnegie with a pre-developed site and installed grid-connectedinfrastructure to test the Ceto 6 commercial generation technology whileleveraging off UK technical and commercial supply chain expertise in the heartof the marine renewables industry," says Carnegie’s executive directorof European business development, Kieran O’Brien.

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