The company’s concept uses a modular array of steel floats hinged to piston-equipped arms that pump a working fluid via a subsea umbilical pieline to an onshore generator in time with the rise and fall of incoming waves.

EWP has engineered the machine to be attached to existing shoreline structures, such as sea walls, breakwaters and piers, to get around the complexities and costs of building foundations on the ocean floor.

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