Oceanlinx has developed proprietary technology to generate electricity from ocean waves. Experience gained from the full scale pilot plant (the Mk1 unit deployed at Port Kembla) and the Mk2 design, along with significant technology improvements, form the basis of our new design, the Oceanlinx Mk3. It is anticipated that the resulting device will generate a peak power output of ≥ 2.5MW, being one of the biggest capacity per Wave Energy Device available on the market.

Multiple Oscillating Water Columns (OWC), each one coupled to a turbine that drives a generator, will be installed in a single structure with an integrated control system. This will provide significant improvements in energy capture efficiency and reduction in infrastructure cost per MW.

Depending on the wave climate conditions, an Oceanlinx W EC device will be able to generate up to 1MW of average power. This will be enough to cover the electricity needs of approximately 1,000 Australian homes.

The Oceanlinx technology is easily scalable and several WEC devices can be connected as an array to the same sub-sea cable or to the same off-shore substation to send electricity to the power grid. The WEC modular design will provide flexibility to increase the power supply by connecting multiple units to meet market requirements, limited only by the capacity of the network to accept the generated electricity.

Typically, electricity will be delivered at voltage levels between 11kV (up to 5MW capacity) and 33kV (up to 20MW capacity) for small commercial projects. In the future, once the experience gained allows Oceanlinx to increase project sizes, the connection to the electricity network will not only require higher voltages, but also some level of reinforcement of the existing network infrastructure.