In the past ten years, the Wave Rotor technology has been tested extensively up to scale 1:5. Models have been tested both in tanks and in open sea.

The results of these tests gave sufficient confidence to scale up towards a commercial system. The objective is to develop an offshore system which can be deployed on a large scale near shores on existing infrastructure and also offshore for example in combination with existing structures such as wind turbines or offshore platforms.

The C-Energy demonstrator will be installed on a jetty owned by Total Refinery Netherlands (hyperlink) in the Westerschelde. The rotor has a diameter of approximately five meters and is five meters deep (1:2 scale).

This project has the objective to:

1. Demonstrate the economic viability of energy generation from tidal flows and waves. 
2. Gain experiences with all the stages of development, manufacturing, installation and maintenance of a near shore device.
3. Monitor and analyze the operational behaviour and performance of the system.