Carnegie Corporation has announced that results of initial in-sea trials of its CETO II wave energy technology show near perfect correlation with results predicted by CETO computational models, confirming its design and clearing the way for deployment of the first commercial CETO II units within weeks.
The initial deployment will be closely followed by the deployment of subsequent units, and it is expected that a small array of CETO II units will be operating off Fremantle by the end of 2008 in addition to deeper water CETO III tests. These final aspects of development will allow CETO to be commercial-ready in 2009 as previously advised.
Construction of an onshore test rig has also been completed which allows testing of all pump units prior to ocean deployment as well as ongoing accelerated life cycle testing to confirm the reliability of the units in parallel with in-sea trials.
