The 550-tonne machine, built at Harland & Wolff Heavy Industries' yard in Belfast, Northern Ireland, will be towed to the European Marine Energy Centre (Emec) in Orkney, Scotland, to be put through its paces in a grid-connected test programme.
The SR2000, which was developed with £25m ($36m) from investors ABB, DP Energy, Fred Olsen and Total New Energies, along with £1.25m
