UK-based clean energy company Global OTEC has installed the world’s first purpose-built offshore platform designed to generate electricity using temperature differences in ocean water.
The company said the floating prototype has been deployed at the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN), a marine testing site off the coast of Spain.
The project, called PLOTEC, is funded under a €3.5 million European Union Horizon Europe programme and is being developed by a consortium led by Global OTEC.
It marks the first time a system of this kind has been installed offshore to test continuous power generation from ocean thermal energy.
A key step in the installation was the deployment of a vertical seawater intake riser. This structure is used to bring cold water from deep below the sea surface and is considered one of the most difficult parts of building an offshore Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) system.
The floating setup allows engineers to test how the
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