World's first major wave farm is set to get green light off Cornwall

[bananas]

http://environment.independent.co.uk/article2970782.ece

World's first major wave farm is set to get green light off Cornwall
By David Langton
Published: 17 September 2007

The world's first large-scale wave farm will be given planning approval today. Wave Hub, a £28m project off the Cornish coast, is expected to be in place and producing renewable energy by 2009.

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Companies developing wave energy technology will be able to plug into Wave Hub to test their devices on a scale never seen anywhere before. Four have already been chosen to use the system.

Jason Clark a spokesman for Wave Hub, said: "It is rather like a 10-mile extension lead plugged into the National Grid. So although we will be supplying energy to the South-west, the real advantage of this project is in allowing other experts to plug in their equipment to see if it can be developed commercially."

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Engineers from Ocean Power Delivery recently helped build a smaller wave farm off the Portuguese coast after deploying a prototype off the Orkneys.

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[diane in sf]

1. Cool--people are working on harvesting tide and wave power here in SF.