Copenhagen-based Floating Power Plant’s (FPP) Poseidon concept, which combines unique high-absorption 'floats' to harness the incoming waves and a trio of deck-top, twin-blade wind turbines to capture passing gusts, has been developed over the past 12 years at a cost of $12m.
FPP says a grid-connected test conducted off south-east Denmark for two years shows the device capable of producing “predictable, forecastable and dispatchable [energy] production, which may reduce the problems of intermittency and approach base-load consistency”.
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