At this moment, a handful of blacksmiths are welding the hull of a half-scale model of the wave energy plant Crestwing. The plan is that the station, named Tordenskiold, during 2016 will be embedded and tested in an area northeast of Hirsholmene in the sea area Kattegat.

Tordenskiold is 10 times 30 metres wide and 2.5 metres tall and will have a total weight of about 60 tonnes. It is, so far, the last in the series of test models that the inventor, Henning Pilgaard, has built and tested over the last decade. And the expectations for Tordenskiold are high.

-Watch video: Wave Energy - Crestwing

- With Fladstrand (the little brother of Tordenskjold) we have already shown that we can convert 80 percent of the absorbed energy for electricity to the grid. We expect an increase to 90 percent of this half-scale model, says Henning Pilgaard.

Fladstrand is a 1:5 version of the final Crestwing, which is expected to be launched in January 2018.

Just over a year ago, Crestwing received DKK 10 million from the Danish Energy Agency to the construction of the half-scale model.

Source: Energy Supply