First sea trials for Swedish wave power plant Ocean Harvester made in collaboration with Fred Olsen company, Norway.
  

The Swedish wave power company Ocean Harvesting Technologies AB (OHT) will test its prototype in collaboration with Fobox AS, a company in the Fred Olsen group. It will be the first sea trial of the wave energy converter named Ocean Harvester. The collaboration means that Fred Olsen will provide space at its wave power test facilities in Risör at the southeast coast of Norway. Equipment, infrastructure, industrial partners and personnel are included in the collaboration in order to support the sea trials of the prototype.

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PhD student Andreas Josefsson, BTH, presented the latest results on performance simulations at EWTEC 2011 in Southampton: "Performance of a Wave Energy Converter with Mechanical Energy Smoothing".

The detailed design of a 25 kW prototype of the Ocean Harvester is now completed.

The design has been verified with computer simulations and the test rig has been upgraded to a development and test platform for the control system. Deployment in Hanöbukten, south east of Sweden, is planned in Q1 2012.

This is a part of E.ONs work to promote for a better environment and a sustainable supply of energy.

This is the beginning of a long term collaboration where we can benefit from E.ONs experience in power production and wave power. E.ON gets the opportunity to influence the technology development and make adaptations of the technology to suit their portfolio.

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Andreas Josefsson presented Ocean Harvestings wave power technology at EWTEC, European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference.

Andreas is a PhD student at Blekinge Institute of Technology and work full time to develop simulation models used in the product development.