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SPECIAL FEATURE | Oceanlinx<br />
Oceanlinx<br />
Clean electricity from ocean waves<br />
Oceanlinx is an Australian company, with seven<br />
global subsidiaries and approximately one hundred<br />
international shareholders. Oceanlinx has developed<br />
a technology to convert the energy in ocean waves<br />
into electricity. The company utilises improvements it<br />
has developed in Oscillating Water Column (OWC)<br />
technology, coupled with its innovative and proprietary<br />
wave energy turbo-machinery system and smart<br />
integration, to deliver cost effective and completely<br />
emissions-free electricity and desalinated water. The only<br />
moving parts are positioned several metres above sea<br />
level, thereby eliminating any potential harm to marine<br />
life. This zero-emissions system is a completely benign<br />
form of renewable energy conversion in every respect.<br />
The Oceanlinx technology has received numerous<br />
international awards and accolades, including being<br />
named one of the Ten Most Outstanding Technologies<br />
in the World by the International Academy of Science in<br />
2006, and ranking third on the United Nations Industrial<br />
Development Organization’s (UNIDO) list of the Top<br />
Ten Renewable Energy Investment Opportunities in the<br />
World in 2009. As recently as September <strong>2010</strong>, the latest<br />
version of the Oceanlinx technology was named the Most<br />
Outstanding Clean Energy Technology Innovation at the<br />
Annual EcoGen Awards in Sydney, Australia.<br />
Oceanlinx and Mexico’s Comision Federal de<br />
Electricidad (CFE) are finalising an agreement which<br />
will form the basis for the development of CFE’s first<br />
wholly owned wave generated electric energy project<br />
utilising the Oceanlinx technology. The plant, expected<br />
to be operating in early 2012, will be located at Rosarito<br />
on the northwestern coast of the State of Baja California.<br />
Rated at an expected 500 kW, the wave energy plant will<br />
result in a meaningful decrease in fossil fuel generation,<br />
equivalent to a reduction in emissions of 1500 tonnes of<br />
CO 2<br />
into the atmosphere per annum.<br />
Oceanlinx is concurrently developing several wave<br />
energy projects in other parts of the world. These include:<br />
Portugal, Australia, and the USA.<br />
Oceanlinx<br />
Tel: +61 2 9490 0100<br />
Website: www.oceanlinx.com<br />
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