The power of Poseidon

Floating Power Plant is a clean-tech company that develops, designs and provides a unique technology to harvest the limitless energy of the ocean.

Maybe Poseidon the god was a bit more powerful, but Poseidon the power plant is at least real (Photo:Floating Power Plant)

Maybe Poseidon the god was a bit more powerful, but Poseidon the power plant is at least real (Photo:Floating Power Plant)

 

Poseidon is the Greek god of the sea. It is, however, also a concept for a floating power plant that transforms wave energy into electricity.

The power plant even serves as a floating foundation for offshore windmills, thus creating a sustainable energy hybrid. A 37 meter offshore demonstration plant was launched in the summer of 2008. A full scale Poseidon plant can measure from 100 and up to 420 meters depending on wave and wind conditions at the chosen location.

A Poseidon 230 meter scale plant is expected to perform as follows:

• Efficiency of transforming inherent wave energy to electricity of 35%
• The total installed effect of the plant is 10 MW, including the 3 windmills
• Energy yield from the waves of 28 GWh per year provided the plant is located in the Portuguese part of the Atlantic Ocean
• Energy yield from the 3 windmills of totally 22 GWh per year

Further reading

Floating Power Plant website

Poseidon presentation folder (PDF)

Article produced by Eilif Ursin Reed 06.05.2010

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