Trident plans to install a 25kW version of the "co-located" wave-energy generator – which is designed to be attached to marine infrastructure such as offshore wind turbines and oil platforms – on a deepwater jetty in Kishorn Port, facing the Isle of Skye.

The lease agreement will allow Trident to test the PowerPod prototype in more "moderate" waves than the extreme marine environments common off Northern Europe that a full-scale version would face.

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