Aegir
—
a
tie-up
between
Swedish
utility
Vattenfall
and
Edinburgh-based
Pelamis
Wave
Power
—
has
plans
to
sail
14
750kW
P2
wave-energy
converters
(WECs)
out
to
the
2sq
km
site,
roughly
10km
from
land,
as
part
of
a
10MW
lead-off
phase.
Ultimately,
the
development
could
comprise
26
of
the serpentine
devices,
slack-moored
and
spaced
300
metres
apart
in
a
“daisychain”
to
form
a
20MW
complex,
supplying
power
to
26,000
homes.
Each
180-metre-long,
1,300-tonne
machine
would
generate
at
690
volts
of
alternating
current,
which
would
be
stepped
up
by
transformers
in…
