A Dutch energy firm has successfully completed dry tests of its underwater wave energy converter, ready for deployment in the North Sea in 2026.
Clean-tech start-up Symphony Wave Power is developing wave energy converter (WEC) technology that harnesses the motion of ocean waves to generate electricity.
The company is currently in the early commercial phase, having recently completed dry testing of its WEC on land in Gemeente Velsen, the Netherlands. These tests helped validate its design and performance before moving to real-world ocean deployment in 2026.
The company describes its technology as being based on point absorbing theory, in which a large amount of energy can be harvested from relatively small devices.
Positioned beneath the surface of the waves at a depth of at least 20 metres, the device moves with the up-and-down motion of the waves. As it does so, this motion forces the liquid from the membrane through a bidirectional turbine into a spring chamber. The moving turbine drives...