World's Largest Wave Electric Power Plant to be Built in Turkey

An agreement on the construction of a wave power plant has been signed in the Turkish city of Ordu. Swedish company Eco Wave Power and Turkish company Oren Ordu Eneas announced the construction of the world's largest wave power plant. The design capacity of the power plant will be 77 MW.

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Turkey Will Have the Biggest Power Plant

The construction cost will be approximately $150 million. The plant, which will convert the energy of sea waves into electricity, consists of a fixed array of modular steel floats hinged on reciprocating arms. The latter will pump working fluid through an underwater hose line to an onshore generator that produces sustainable energy.

The construction of the project will be realized in several phases. In the first phase, a pilot power plant with a capacity of 4 MW will be built in Ordu harbor, and the remaining modules will be added according to the results of the test run and pilot operation. Despite the great interest in wave energy, this technology has not yet found active application. The world's first commercial wave device, the Islay LIMPET, was installed off the coast of Islay, Scotland and connected to the UK national grid in 2000. In 2008, the first experimental wave farm with several generators was opened at Agusadura Wave Park in Portugal. Its peak power was announced at 2.25 MW.