Ship&Offshore | Issue 05/2022
First composite hull for Wave Energy Converter launched
CorPower Ocean, together with team members Autonational and CPT Tankwell, specialists in composite machinery and tanks, have recently unveiled the first commercial-scale composite Wave Energy Converter (WEC) hull at a global launch event in Stockholm. The hull was developed using a custom-built manufacturing cell at CorPower’s environmentally controlled composite production facilities in Viano do Castelo, Portugal. It will form a key component in the HiWave-5 Project, involving ocean deployment off the coast near Aguçadoura, Portugal....