AWARD YEAR
2015
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Life On Land
KEYWORDS
Clean Energy , sustainability, enewable electricity
COUNTRY
Sweden
DESIGNED BY
CorPower Ocean
WEBSITE
http://www.corpowerocean.com
CorPower Ocean
Powering the world with clean and renewable electricity from the oceans
CorPower Ocean has developed an advanced compact high-efficiency Wave Energy Converter (WEC), inspired by the pumping principles of the human heart.
CorPower’s technology offers an exceptionally high power density, 5 times higher than competing technologies, at less than a third of the cost.
Our aim is to establish a new generation of wave power for utility-scale energy generation offering a cost of energy that can compete with conventional non-renewable energy resources.
In a world of exponentially spiralling environmental pressures, the need for alternative energy production systems is overriding. Harvesting nature’s vast resource of energy contained in ocean waves sustainably and effectively could potentially produce 2000-4000TWh of electricity per year – 10-20% of worldwide electricity consumption – and create a world where producing human energy needs is efficient, clean and economical.