30.08.2023
A collaborative renewable subsea power project has successfully completed its initial four-month test programme in the UK North Sea, proving that a subsea battery storage system can reliably power subsea equipment through being recharged by a wave energy device.
Deployed in the waters five kilometres off the East coast of Orkney, Scotland in February 2023, the Blue X wave energy converter – built by Edinburgh company Mocean Energy – was connected with a Halo underwater battery developed by Aberdeen intelligent energy management specialists Verlume in a ‘first-of-its-kind’ project.