@anniesue Thank you for your comment Annie-Sue, Wave power is dead in the water in the UK at the moment.
Back in 1978 a major deep-sea wave energy programme with a 2 GW reference design target was started, Wavegen’s 250 kW Limpet system was installed on the Orkneys and tested, unfortunately it suffered problems during off shore storms and was expensive to maintain, Scotland has led the way with development in 2014 its pioneering Pelamis sea snake and Oyster hinged-flap projects have been proved to work but is again subject to storm damage, the R and D work is still being done to improve the system so maybe one day we will have some:)
@Dawn Thank you Dawn for your comment, as you can see above it is beset by problems but work is still continuing to resolve them.
The novel sea-bed-mounted membrane-pad m-Wave system being developed in Australian by developer Bombora also beset by problems is still being developed:)
@onewing Thank you Babs not a problem in your neck of the woods I suspect with Solar, in the UK energy generation sources are, Gas=50%, Wind=25%, Nuclear=15%, Biomass=7%, Coal=3%:)
@pcoulson interesting - have done some reading based on your info. Something new was deployed off Orkney last year - big blades placed in the tidal stream - hopefully something will come of that.
@louannwarren Thank you Lou Ann for your comment, you will need many more when the USA stops generating using fossil fuels, they account for 63% of energey generation in the USA:)
@365projectorgheatherb Many thanks for your lovely comment Heather, wave power is still being developed all over the world, in the United Kingdom, Australia, China, Denmark, Italy, Korea, Portugal, Spain and the USA to name but a few:)
@anniesue Thank you for the information Annie-Sue, I knew research work was still being carried out around Scotland particularly in the Orkney's and a few universities are working on the problem but not the new developements :)
Back in 1978 a major deep-sea wave energy programme with a 2 GW reference design target was started, Wavegen’s 250 kW Limpet system was installed on the Orkneys and tested, unfortunately it suffered problems during off shore storms and was expensive to maintain, Scotland has led the way with development in 2014 its pioneering Pelamis sea snake and Oyster hinged-flap projects have been proved to work but is again subject to storm damage, the R and D work is still being done to improve the system so maybe one day we will have some:)
The novel sea-bed-mounted membrane-pad m-Wave system being developed in Australian by developer Bombora also beset by problems is still being developed:)