More than 4km of power cables were laid by the CS Sovereign, a specialist installation vessel operated by UK outfit Global Marine Systems.

Scottish engineering firm J+S supplied the specialised equipment that will allow wave and tidal developers to connect their devices to the new and existing cables at the two sites.

“This was a challenging task performed in the ever changing conditions at our wave and tidal test sites,” says EMEC operations manager Stuart Baird.

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